“We welcome highly-focused, emerging projects from individual contributors, as well as those with robust developer communities, global user bases, and strong corporate backing,” said ASF president Jim Jagielski in a statement. The Apache Software Foundation’s model makes it possible for commercial and individual volunteer contributors to collaborate on open source product development,” said Luke Kowalski,VP with Oracle’s Corporate Architecture Group, in a statement. “Donating to Apache gives this popular consumer software a mature, open, and well established infrastructure to continue well into the future. The LibreOffice developers released their first stable version of that software earlier this year.Oracle is submitting the codebase for to the Apache Software Foundation, where the productivity suite will live on in the group’s incubator program for open-source software initiatives, Oracle announced yesterday. Oracle provided no additional information about, or its own proprietary Web-based office suite, Oracle Cloud Office, which also supports ODF.

Oracle is focused on Linux and MySQL because both of these products have won broad based adoption among commercial and government customers.' 'We will continue to make large investments in open source technologies that are strategic to our customers including Linux and MySQL. 'Oracle has a long history of investing in the development and support of open source products,' Screven continued. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF).'

We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office. In a statement, Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven said, 'Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis. Today, Oracle has announced that it will no longer offer a commercial version of the software, and that it plans to move the suite to a purely community-based open source project. When a group of developers broke off from Oracle last year to establish the Document Foundation and create the new LibreOffice open-source office suite, it was unclear what would become of the well-known project they left behind.

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