Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Sat Mar 17 11:53:57 CDT 2012
I can continue to remain in awe of Larry Ellison's ability to piss people off, get away with it, and even PROSPER from his actions. If I do something even remotely stupid, I'm either in the dog house or in jail with a steep fine. Must be great to be a 1 percenter ! Still, I'm glad they got back at him...for they "knew" he was not going to grow OpenOffice much. Larry buys entities only for the purpose of eliminating competition. Everyone knows that. Whereas Steve Jobs may have been the most revered executive in the tech world, Larry has got to be the most hated. Sorry for the weekend "soap box" rant. > Just a note, for those thinking of going to OpenOffice, the open source > product now owned by Oracle, it would be recommended you try LibreOffice > (http://www.libreoffice.org/). It seems that Oracle angried the > original team of developers when they acquired OpenOffice (The new company even > scooped some of Oracles development team...a bit of insult to injury) > from Sun and most of the team branched off and continued their own version. > Jim