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Oracle charges $90 for Sun's free ODF plug-in

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forquare1

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Oracle charges $90 for Sun's free ODF plug-in


	Quote: Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format. As noticed by The H, if you visit the home of the Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office, there's still a big red button that says you can "Get it Now. Free." But if you actually click on that button, Oracle says you can't get it now unless you fork over $9,000. That's $90 per user, with a minimum of 100 users.

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This could hinder any sort of transition to OpenOffice (Or StarOffice) from MS Office by companies. It's not a good thing whatever way you slice it...

Still Oracle makes money, Sun rarely did...

Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:48 am

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Re: Oracle charges $90 for Sun's free ODF plug-in

Ouch

Just as well I downloaded it ages ago.

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Re: Oracle charges $90 for Sun's free ODF plug-in

Oracle are worse than M$ IMHO. :roll:

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Re: Oracle charges $90 for Sun's free ODF plug-in

Well Oracle have a captive market in some respects. They are very profitable. They need to keep Larry Ellison supplied with Super Yachts.

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