GOOGLE & SUN OFFICE: THE WORLD CHANGES THIS WEEK

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[N3WBI3]

Sun and Google continues to leverage the opensource community..

[N3WBI3]

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[ShadowAce]

I have a difficult time relying on an outside party for availability of my apps. I'll keep Office software local. Also--what if I'm in a meeting (or somewhere else) with no Net access?

[N3WBI3]

Google earth has a local install, one might imagine that there will also be a light weight local install for this. But the nice part is if it runs through a web browser it will be portable, 100% portable.

[Salo]

Java-based? Ick. Runs slowly anywhere.

[N3WBI3]

lol, but at least is does the same thigns slowly anywhere

[r9etb]

I have a difficult time relying on an outside party for availability of my apps.

Not to mention availability of my data (Web storage).

[ShadowAce]

Not to mention availability of my data (Web storage).

Yeah. I didn't mention that because I didn't read the article closely enough to determine whether the data would be stored locally or on the Web.

[Eagle of Liberty]

What are the chances that all of these applications working over the web will be attacked by viruses on a daily basis?

[cloud8]

> ...what if I'm in a meeting (or somewhere else) with no Net access?

That's so 2002 ;-)

[N3WBI3]

Well there is still a huge hole in MS Office we are waiting 5+mos to get a fix. IE is attacked pretty often, as is windows which does not even run 'over the web' in the same manner this will.

I see this most likely as a web based word processor that a company might set up and run within their intranet, possible also a stand alone to the desktop (maybe using a small webserver typical with apps like 'webmin'). There will probabally be an office.google.com but I dont think that is the full scope of this.

[ShadowAce]

LOL!

[N3WBI3]

At this point its all speculation. But given what google did with 'google earth' you can buy a standalone app for your desktop, you can buy a server, or you can run web based. I would guess the office product will be the same way.

Imagine only having to maintain a couple of clustered intranet servers to maintain the office suite for a mid sized company. Its the next best think to dumb workstations booting off of terminal servers... 1980's here we come ;)

[ShadowAce]

Imagine only having to maintain a couple of clustered intranet servers to maintain the office suite for a mid sized company.

Why imagine it? It can already be done with Office suites running under *nix. Other than just entering another application into the market, I fail to see what Google is doing here.

[dennisw]

The M$ people will be having a collective conniption fit. Another google triumph will be setting up San Francisco with wireless access city wide

[N3WBI3]

(1) Google is diversifying itself even further
(2) Sun is hooking itself up with the IT darling of the year

I assume when you do it with office suites running under UNIX you're talking about X traffic? What if a client on your network is not UNIX? There is always humming bird and cygwin but that completely defeat the purpose of portability.

[Golden Eagle]

GOOGLE & SUN OFFICE: THE WORLD CHANGES THIS WEEK

ROFL

[jjw]

Google has jumped the shark. (Stolen from an earlier thread about wifi access in San Fran).

[dennisw]

M$ makes more money off of Office than it does from O/S sales. This move is designed to break the unmerited stranglehold M$ has on the office suite market

Firms are being force fed the latest greatest most expensive edition of M$ Office when Open Office will do just fine for them

[Golden Eagle]

Another google triumph will be setting up San Francisco with wireless access city wide

Are you saying google should be able to avoid paying taxes by building their facilities on government land, then use that money to provide "free" stuff to people? Which is of course what they are attempting to do.