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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Rita Garrone <ri...@ymail.com> on 2012/01/25 13:35:46 UTC
Situation about Sun/Oracle ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office
Dear All!
What's up with this product?
"Oracle ODF
Plug-in for Microsoft Office":
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/accessibility/templates/t2314.html#information
What is the current legal situation about the usage of this
product?
It is neither present on Oracle's site nor on the Apache
OpenOffice project site.
What happened to this product after the Oracle > Apache
OpenOffice handover?
Currently what usability and license conditions are valid for this product?
Can this product be installed and used for free at any use?
Even for government computers?
Thank you for your answer!
Best regards,
Rita Garrone
Why somebody seeks for ODF plugin now?[Was: Re: Situation about Sun/Oracle
ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office]
Posted by Reizinger Zoltán <zr...@hdsnet.hu>.
Why such sudden demand on help to find the ODF plugin?
One reason:
The Hungarian government give as a Christmas present, they submitted a
decree in 23 December last year, which ordered all ministers exclude in
Ministry of Defence to use open standards document format in their work
from start of April this year.
The two standardized format are OOXML, and ODF 1.0.
On the computers in ministries, and public services lot of Office 2003
working correctly, and they needs this plugin to open ODF files, for
fast solution.
But the government now recommends that public organizations switch to
using open source office suites. If not, the institutes will have to
explain the technical and economic reasons why they depend on
proprietary office tools.
See more:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/open-document-standards-mandatory-hungary-government
Regards,
Zoltan
Re: Situation about Sun/Oracle ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office
Posted by Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Rita Garrone <ri...@ymail.com> wrote:
> Dear All!
>
> What's up with this product?
> "Oracle ODF
> Plug-in for Microsoft Office":
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/accessibility/templates/t2314.html#information
>
Hi Rita,
The Oracle ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office was a Sun (later Oracle)
product. It enabled ODF read/write support on Office 2003. (Office
2007 SP2 and Office 2010 support ODF natively)
This Plugin was not open source and was not part of the OpenOffice.org
product. It is not part of the Apache OpenOffice project either.
> What is the current legal situation about the usage of this
> product?
> It is neither present on Oracle's site nor on the Apache
> OpenOffice project site.
> What happened to this product after the Oracle > Apache
> OpenOffice handover?
> Currently what usability and license conditions are valid for this product?
> Can this product be installed and used for free at any use?
> Even for government computers?
>
You would need to check with Oracle on the licensing and pricing questions.
Regards,
-Rob
>
> Thank you for your answer!
>
> Best regards,
> Rita Garrone