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Is Oracle trying to Kill the Open Document Format standard?

Why is Oracle now charging $90 for a plug-in to read Open Document Format (ODF) files in Microsoft Office? Is this a way of saying Oracle wants to kill OpenOffice.Org? And what does such a move suggest for the future of Java or MySQL?

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May 11, 2010 at 8:08 pm

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