The OpenOffice camp is facing collapse.

 

At the just-concluded 2009 javaone conference, Oracle CEO Ellison revealed his secret talks with the sun product group, the OpenOffice development team is encouraged to use javafx to develop workbooks or word processing programs. After the message appeared, it was an uproar.

Source: 51cto

Use javafx to override OpenOffice. Major code donors such as IBM, Novell, red hat, and Google are not interested in this, and IBM and Google have made it clear that they will support previous ajax to continue OpenOffice development.

What will happen next? I can assert that OpenOffice will become the second product to be split after Oracle's acquisition of sun!

The first is who, so I don't need to talk about it. Many media have reported the fragmentation of MySQL in the past few days. First, the two founders of MySQL left the company, and then more backbone members left. MySQL branches, including drizzle and mariadb, are emerging. drizzle will provide more suitable lightweight databases for cloud computing and web application servers. Mariadb is designed to be compatible with MySQL functions, and the new transaction-capable storage engine is used by default.

Okay. Let's look back at the OpenOffice situation. Let's guess. As Oracle, IBM, Google, and other companies disagree on OpenOffice, OpenOffice may soon see Ajax and javafx. It seems that there is no problem on the surface, but in fact such a situation will be disastrous.

Unlike MySQL, MySQL was already the most widely used database system before it was acquired by Sun. The mass base was there, and the influence was not to mention. From small and medium-sized enterprises to large Internet companies, MySQL fans are emerging everywhere. Therefore, no matter how many branches MySQL appears, its fans will not decrease. In addition, the number of users may increase due to more selectivity.

OpenOffice is different. in foreign countries, there are products such as Lotus, Apple iwork, and Google Docs competing with it. In China, Kingsoft WPS (which has reached a promotional agreement with Google) and yongzhong office match it, let alone Microsoft Office! How did OpenOffice develop so well? Sun has made great efforts to push data even though developers have made a lot of effort. However, there is no major breakthrough in the number of users. Not to mention that Novell has marked its OpenOffice as "Novell edition" early to show their differences. If Oracle insisted on using javafx to rewrite OpenOffice this time, OpenOffice would be even more worrying, the originally United OpenOffice camp will be in danger.

I thought that after sun was acquired, Oracle could revitalize Sun's original open-source product line. However, it seems that Oracle still does not understand the true meaning of the open-source model. Dare to ask herison, "Happy with others, happy with others ?"Original article: Oracle faces collapse in the OpenOffice camp