Libre Office and Alfresco

[gregkinmd]

Anyone tried out libre office with alfresco as a replacement for open office.   I am not confident that Open Office is going to get the attention it deserves from Oracle.  Was wondering if anyone else has any experience with alternate forms of tools to convert documents in alfresco share..

Thanks..

[mwildam]

ASFAIK Oracle strongly commited to Open Office.

I have heard that Open Office was developed with 95% of Sun people (now Oracle) - so basically it depends IMHO how big the community around Open Office will get.

[iblanco]

Does someone remember XFree86 ? I think OpenOffice will be forgotten in half a year unless Oracle decides to join LibreOffice's effort and allow the use of the name.

Anyway, right now this is more a coffe table conversation than a technical one. AFAIK Libre Office is now just a compilation of OpenOffice so I guess it should work as well as OpenOffice for Alfresco, but haven't tried.

[mikeh]

Having listened to Luke Kowalski, vice president in Oracle's corporate architecture group (keynote speaker at our DevCon in Paris) I would say they're still committed to OpenOffice. If I remember correctly, their engineers have contributed 7,500,000 lines of code to OpenOffice - that would suggest it's not going away any time soon.

Thanks,
Mike

[mwildam]

Indeed, they are strongly comitted to Open Office and 3.3 RC is already out.