Good news for Open-Source and Sun employees

Posted Apr 21, 2009 20:37 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
In reply to: Good news for Open-Source and Sun employees by oak
Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

My guess: Oracle sells OpenOffice to IBM.

This could actually happen... Of course, IBM has devoted lots of resources to Lotus Symphony; perhaps Symphony and OOo could combine forces to take on Microsoft Office...

Hmm... or maybe MicroSoft would be willing to pay more?

This is a near-impossibility. Hell would freeze over sooner. I just can't see MS buying a competitive product to their cash-cow office suite. If they did so it'd be to simply extinguish OOo (bypassing the extend and embrace phases). OOo would fork faster than a Windows box blue-screening.