The State of Apache OpenOffice As Of Early 2021

[sveld]

Perhaps management will choose it for their internal site software image because they don't trust the "Community" edition of LibreOffice?
I wonder if this will add life back into OOo.

Why would it, nothing changed for the product LibreOffice in licensing or functionality. The name did not really change, it's just a Community label reflecting the edition it always has and will be; free and community supported. It just makes it more clear for those that do not want to depend on free community support which comes without any guarantees, so they better look at a version that comes with a SLA like Collabora Office, LibreOffice Powered by CIB, etc. What happens too often is that organizations run into issues, find they do not get the support that they actually expect and then instead of solving the problem turn to other solutions. If you want an recent example have a look at https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...79#post1236179
Using open solution in your organization does not simply mean it's a for free compared to a closed solution. The larger part of a subscription of any solution generally is for having access to solid support; someone that can answer your questions and can fix issues that cost your company money cause the product does not work as you expect.

[r_a_trip]

Apache got dealt a shit hand by Oracle. OpenOffice.org as a codebase was already dead by the time Oracle oh so graciously donated it. So Apache got a wildly valuable trademark with a DOA Office suite attached. It's hard to make a selfless decision and for Apache that seems to be the case as well. Meanwhile the zombie coasts on name recognition and LibreOffice has to fight an uphill battle against this has-been.

The best way to resolve this would be for the Apache Foundation to donate the OpenOffice.org trademark to the Document Foundation and make it a joint PR opportunity. The problem with that is that Apache would have to admit that they were duped by Oracle by accepting this pig in a poke and that there is no way they will ever surpass LO in development. OpenOffice.org is a trademark that will slowly fade into irrelevance, because the barely developed Office software will increasingly bit rot.

[kpedersen]

The name did not really change, it's just a Community label reflecting the edition it always has and will be; free and community supported.

Yup. Now you just have to explain that to every middle manager in the world

[RahulSundaram]

Yup. Now you just have to explain that to every middle manager in the world

Perhaps middle managers so confused by that would be more interested in paying for an enterprise version instead.

[bug77]

Apache got dealt a shit hand by Oracle. OpenOffice.org as a codebase was already dead by the time Oracle oh so graciously donated it. So Apache got a wildly valuable trademark with a DOA Office suite attached. It's hard to make a selfless decision and for Apache that seems to be the case as well. Meanwhile the zombie coasts on name recognition and LibreOffice has to fight an uphill battle against this has-been.

The best way to resolve this would be for the Apache Foundation to donate the OpenOffice.org trademark to the Document Foundation and make it a joint PR opportunity. The problem with that is that Apache would have to admit that they were duped by Oracle by accepting this pig in a poke and that there is no way they will ever surpass LO in development. OpenOffice.org is a trademark that will slowly fade into irrelevance, because the barely developed Office software will increasingly bit rot.

Apache is too big to be hung up on OOo. But we don't know which attached strings they inherited together with the project. Maybe they just maintain it for some users that are stuck with it. Some sort of IE encore.

[kpedersen]

Perhaps middle managers so confused by that would be more interested in paying for an enterprise version instead.

Nah, too late. They have already chosen OpenOffice.org which only has a single version for them to deploy.
And no (what they perceive "community" to mean) non-commercial use demo versions to worry about.

This is all theoretical of course. We all know they will deploy Microsoft Office anyway XD

[DanL]

Written on the OOo tombstone:
”Cowardly murdered by CLA”

There's a lot more to the story than that, but as usual, you will just see what you want to and use it for your troll narrative.

[RahulSundaram]

Nah, too late. They have already chosen OpenOffice.org which only has a single version for them to deploy.
And no (what they perceive "community" to mean) non-commercial use demo versions to worry about.

This is all theoretical of course. We all know they will deploy Microsoft Office anyway XD

Honestly, the idea of anyone choosing openoffice.org because it only has a single version sounds very far fetched. The only reason it has any relevance is because of the popular brand name. It is not an actively developed project and is barely maintained. FWIW, the momentum is behind things like Google Docs. Not MS Office.

[Danielsan]

The Document Foundation should open a crowd-found campaign to buy the OOo brand and closing for ever this non sense...

[Etherman]

My boss, on a very non technical company, uses open office
Which one of them are you seeing in the wilderness?
(I myself use libre)