Oracle start charging for Sun's Office ODF plug-in
Found on The H on Monday, 19 April 2010
Sun released the Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office, as a closed source but free application which allowed Microsoft Office users to export and import documents in Open Document Format.
Users clicking through will find that Oracle are now charging $90, per user, for a right-to-use license for the plug-in and offering support costing $19.80 per user for the first year. Oracle also requires a minimum order of 100 licenses, which means the minimum purchase is $9,000.
From $0 to $9000 for the same product. A product which Oracle didn't even develop it, but bought it by acquiring Sun. What Oracle has been doing in the past weeks is, simply put, looting a corpse; they take out everything which can be sold (ODF), and drop the rest (OpenSolaris). That's ok though: I also dropped something. Respect for Oracle.