I was recently pull in an article talking about Open Office is no longer free. The article talks about Oracle new direction and it also cross with another annoucement of Oracle kill of opensolaris project.
It seems the information is very contradictory but then again, I do wonder what is the official push of oracle since they killed StarOffice and then turn to Oracle Open Office which adds a lot of confusion to the market now. Most people use the term "Open Office" when they really mean OpenOffice.org, so turning a 'typo' into a commercial brand sounds like a pretty low hit to the market. If you dont pronounce correctly the .org then it means you are talking about a commercial brand now. Similar to what Novell did with Go-Oo (does anyone actually say that?). This fragmentation of the brand could really break the marketing efforts of the community. Branding should take notice about this treat as opposed to trying to control the OpenOffice.org brand so much but rather work with this forks to rebrand themselves into a less fuzzy term of their name. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/043540.html -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
