OpenOffice 2.0

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Werner Punz wrote:

> Why they chose hypersonic over others still is somewhat a miracle to 
> me, does not really fit to the project itself. 

So, my theory is that this is a key part of Sun's strategy. OpenOffice 
is a very popular OSS project and is key to any Linux offering. Sun will 
continue to promote it on Windows and we will all be singing its praises 
as an important migration tool. We will all help to make Linux and 
OpenOffice popular. At the same time Java will continue to creep into 
OpenOffice so that eventually it just won't work without Java. That will 
make life quite difficult for distros that emphasize freedom, like 
Debian, Ubuntu and Mandrake because the OSS implementations of Java are 
clearly inferior.

Fortunately for the business world and the home user, Sun will be there 
with it's Java Desktop System (or Solaris) which obviously comes with 
Java pre-installed.

.henrik