OpenOffice 2.0

[Werner Punz]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> 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.
> 

I rather doubt it, Sun never really has used tactics like that and with 
Classpath there is a viable alternative which soon also will have Swing 
integration and soon will reach at least 1.2 JDK status (with lots of 
1.2+ stuff already integrated)

Even if Sun pulls a stunt like that you'd bet how fast the necessary 
classes would be integrated into classpath to break it free again.

It is more a sort of promotion thing, if you ask me, Sun simply wants to 
promote java on the desktop more and therefore they went for HSQL.
HSQL itself is not a bad solution per se, but not really the best option 
given that most of OpenOffice is written in C++ and JNI lets say it that 
way is not really that good.

> 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.
> 
See my comments above...
I have to say, I am not a java hater, I am just pragmatic (and earn my 
money with that stuff currently)