[vlug] Fwd: Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation

  • From: Prasanna Venkadesh <prasmailme@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: puduvailug <puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, vlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 06:57:08 +0530

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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
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From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:11 AM
Subject: [discuss] Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation
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[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

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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.

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