Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’
OpenOffice Forks, Becomes LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org has long been the leading free and open source alternative to Microsoft's widely used Office package. The software has set download records on new releases, and estimates suggest it now accounts for about 10 percent of the overall office suite market. When Oracle bought Sun, the open-source projects such as OpenOffice.org and the [...]
Cloud Of Uncertainty Over Android
Is it or isn’t it? That is the big question people are asking about the clash between Oracle and Google over the Java-based Android system. Oracle acquired Sun System, makers of Java, last January. Sun’s Java provided both licensed and free or open source versions. Java allows developers to write software for a variety of computers and [...]
