---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:14 AM Subject: [Ilugc] Fwd: [discuss] Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:11 AM Subject: [discuss] Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation To: discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [I guess you have heard abount it already, but in case you haven´t, I´m pasting it here. By the way, I think this news should be also posted to http://www.openoffice.org/news/ anyone got access to do that? -FC] http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-contribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm ---- REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 1, 2011) - "With today's proposal to contribute the OpenOffice.org code to The Apache Software Foundation's Incubator, Oracle continues to demonstrate its commitment to the developer and open source communities. Donating OpenOffice.org to Apache gives this popular consumer software a mature, open, and well established infrastructure to continue well into the future. The Apache Software Foundation's model makes it possible for commercial and individual volunteer contributors to collaborate on open source product development." -- Luke Kowalski, vice president, Oracle Corporate Architecture Group. "We welcome highly-focused, emerging projects from individual contributors, as well as those with robust developer communities, global user bases, and strong corporate backing." -- Jim Jagielski, president, The Apache Software Foundation. Mr. Jagielski is also the proposed podling mentor for the OpenOffice.org community during the incubation process. "IBM welcomes Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice software to the Apache Software Foundation. We look forward to engaging with other community members to advance the technology beginning with our strong support of the incubation process for OpenOffice at Apache." -- Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, IBM Collaboration Solutions. About Oracle Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. ---- FC -- "Tools are a way to amplify our senses so that we can expand our reach in order to expropiate space, compress time, and secure ourselves. A gun extends the power of our throwing arms. An automobile is an extension of our legs. Computers amplify our memories". - T.E.D. "Space Time, and Modernity" J. Rifkin -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands send email to sympa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with Subject: help -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- PuduvaiLUG (puduvai Linux Users Group): http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/ Visit the Blog to know my experience with LINUX: http://prasopensource.wordpress.com/