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Open Source for Office 2.0

posted 06:54PM Sep 06, 2007 with tags office20 opensource unconference by Lars Trieloff

This is the second session I moderated in the Office 2.0 Unconference 2007. I started with a prepared presentation on open source tools for Office 2.0.

The tools covered are

The presentation incited an interesting discussion, some of the questions I can remember are:

Isn't Chandler a dead project? It has been in works for seven years, but no release has been made and you can see zero adoption.
From a technical point of view, Chandler is by no means an abandoned project. Eight active developers, frequent releases and a product that is technically up to date tell a different story. However, from the viewpoint of adoption, Chandler is not yet a big success. The main reasons I see are:
  • No 1.0 release
  • Community: most chandler developers are still employees of OSAF
  • No commercial backgrouding providing support for in-production scenarios.
What are the main obstacles for integrating these four projects?
The main topics for an integration effort would be single-sign on and user-management, single user interface and data integration.
What is the open source business model?
This has been answered before, for example here.
How does the MPL (Mozilla Public License) work
Mindquarry is using the MPL, this caused the question. Under the MPL, interested developers can take the source code, modify and extend it and sell the modified and extended product to their clients provided all modified source code (but not added code) is made available under the terms of the MPL again. This model benefits the original developer, the extender and the customer.

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Nice presentation and thank you for mentioning Tigase project I work on.
There is one mistake however on slide 45.
Tigase project is not hosted at tigris.org. It is hosted on our own server: http://www.tigase.org/.

The name is similar but different indeed....

with regards,
Artur Hefczyc

Posted by Artur Hefczyc on September 07, 2007 at 11:03 AM CEST #

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