Posted on 10/04/2005 10:47:35 AM PDT by N3WBI3
GOOGLE & SUN OFFICE: THE WORLD CHANGES THIS WEEK
[Oct 4, 2005] Google & Sun are to announce an Office Suite based on OpenOffice, and accesible via webbrowser, according to Jonathan Schwartz --President and COO of Sun Microsystems-- (the original title of his post was "The World changes this week").
It's probably the beginning of the WebOS, an Operating System based on the Web.
UPDATED: Some interesting links: :: Sun president: PCs are so yesterday :: Google Office wishlist: seamless Web storage, great built-in search, integration with other Google tools, a truly better user interface, true browser-based operation :: Some web-based Office tools: Kiko, Num Sum, Writely.
UPDATED 2: Google and Sun had agreed to a multi-year pact to distribute Sun's software technologies that offer a potential alternative to Microsoft's dominance of business users' desktops. These technologies are 'Java Desktop' and 'OpenOffice'.
(1) Google is diversifying itself even further
(2) Sun is hooking itself up with the IT darling of the year
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The coolest best coders want to work for google, not M$
We use MS office because it works, really good. If it didn't work, why would Open office copy everything including the name?
Isn't that what taxes do? What's the difference?
Obviously, Google isn't the government, and shouldn't be allowed to play like it is.
What do have against google wiring up San Francisco? It's a great demonstration project that other cities and towns can learn from. That Comcast, the regional Bells, all cable companies must learn from. Hi speed access has been a rip off for far too long and google is about to kick their monopolistic pricing schemes to the curb.
GOOGLE + SAN FRAN = competition for the above monopolists. Screw 'em!
If San Francisco works out Google will make money wiring other cities. Google is not a charity. What's to prevent the cable companies and regional telecoms from doing the same?
Unfair competition by being allowed to run their business from government property. Not surprised it's happening in SF either, of all places for liberal theories to be tested.
So what! Open Office works good enough for most people and businesses. Office suites and operating systems are becoming commodities. Pushed by Linux of course
This commodititization is exactly why M$ concentrates a lot more on piracy and insulting schemes where they bleed you every few months for update/patches.
Cry me a river for monopolistic cable TV/internet companies and local Bells. Where I live I can only use only cable company because my town has granted them a monopoly. This monopoly is supposed to be regulated but that's a lie. Their pricing is thievery
You could use Direct TV like I do. But it would be wrong if Direct was given property on government satellites tax free. Which is what Google is trying out in SF.
It called a public private partnership and the US abounds with them. The smart cable companies and smart Baby Bells will do the same as google is doing and give up their dreams of people paying outrageous prices for cable internet
With the potential to be 100% unavailable due to downtime AND 100% insecure. The hackers will sailvate over the opportunity to compromise this data.
This may not be such a great idea. I can't imagine why I would want this.
Secure: See some of the holes in MS offices jetdb that have been there five months. Any app web based or not has that problem when you hook the system its on to a network.
Unavailable: True, but this risk could be mitigated with a good web architecture with clustering and fail over.
The hackers will sailvate over the opportunity to compromise this data.
I would never run it over the Internet, I would however run it privately on my intranet. but think about it people right now mail word documents via hotmail, gmail, and others.
Personally, as for the online WP software, I'd never use such an app on the Internet, but if it were on an intranet, probably.
Then again, the tech industry relies on innovation--regardless if we're proprietary or open-source. New products keeps tech alive--so much so that it's quite literally the lifeblood of the industry. It's good that OSS is leading the way in innovation--effectively keeping most everything functioning--even MS! ;)
So you'll be perfectly happy if/when Google is allowed further free use of government property, including not only government lands but eventually government satellites?
Have you had a saliva test lately?
To me, this sort of sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Their tax dollars (and ours) bought it
...but eventually government satellites?
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I for one welcome our Web-based overlords!
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Does every damned thing have to be a communist/hippy conspiracy against Mom, apple pie and McDonalds? You're starting to sound like an Art Bell guest. Yeesh!
This may not be such a great idea. I can't imagine why I would want this. I'm with you on this one. I can't see a compelling reason for it.
Secure: See some of the holes in MS offices jetdb that have been there five months. Any app web based or not has that problem when you hook the system its on to a network.
LOL, besides your laughable finger pointing at other products, how about the first requirement of security - local control. When your data is out on some foreign network you have absolutely no control over it, especially any real hope you can do anything yourself to prevent others from accessing it when those mechanisms are completely controlled by others. They could even lock YOU out, ROFL. Did this not even cross your mind?
Unavailable: True, but this risk could be mitigated with a good web architecture with clustering and fail over.
LMAO, did you not even think about the first required element of remote access, being network connectivity? This is hysterically funny, that you would immediately overlook such basic fundamentals, especially since you fashion yourself as someone capable of advising others on such matters.
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