By requesting to pay a perpetual license to $ 90 per user for installing the plug-in that allows Microsoft Office to read ODF files to OpenOffice, it is questionable if Oracle does not pay towards OOo. Needless to say, the shadow of Microsoft is so large that the market for office a suite is ungrateful and that some tools are not always the recognition they deserve. OpenOffice should strive to get a place and this requires interoperability with the "standard" market.

To this end, Sun proposed the plug-in OFD-Office free. However, Oracle has bought the company, decided to pay the license by requiring companies to buy at least 100 licenses.

It is true that this plug-in is primarily intended for companies that have larger budgets and do not have Office 2007 compatible with ODF. However, in practice, many questions about the future of the office suite and if you doubt that Oracle's completely abandoned, the firm reports that it begins to break up the open source world and one wonders if ultimately it does not mean the end of the free office suite.