It was also good today to see a report on Oracle’s plans for OpenOffice.org. Sun Microsystems is OpenOffice.org’s founding and principle sponsor, so the news that Sun was to be acquired by Oracle had set hearts fluttering in the open-source world.

It’s worth quoting the relevant section in full:

What is Oracle’s plan for OpenOffice?

Oracle has a history of developing complete, integrated, and open products, making integration quicker and less costly for our customers. Based on the open ODF standard, OpenOffice is expected to create a compelling desktop integration bridge for our enterprise customers and offers consumers another choice on the desktop. After the transaction closes, Oracle plans to continue developing and supporting OpenOffice as open source. As before, some of the larger customers will ask for extra assurances, support, and enterprise tools. For these customers we expect to offer a typical commercial license option.

Which sounds remarkably similar to the Sun proposition, with OpenOffice.org (shame about the .org) as the free version and StarOffice as a commercial offering. Another reason to be cheerful in the run up to OOoCon 2009 – the Cento Milioni Conference.

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