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'.
Obviously. As for me, I don't think tax dollars should be given to any of these rich companies, let them make it own their own or not. The government should be there to provide the rule of law for which they operate and protect them from foreign threats. NOT subsidize them. Can you imagine the uproar if the government gave Microsoft a piece of land tax free? We would all rightfully be outraged.
I see your point but to me this just seems to be a pointless technology.
You got that right.
Some of the technology out their baffles me as to why it exists. This would be one example. Another one would be my cell phone .. it has a camera in it. Because of this, it is twice as big as it should be and when it's in my pocket it looks like I overdosed on viagra. I hate it!! I don't want a camera in my phone, if I wanted to take pictures I'd buy a camera!!
Get a load of this...after the cluelss noob indicated it was the second coming:
Google and Sun deal: That's it?
http://news.com.com/Google+and+Sun+deal+Thats+it/2100-1012_3-5888798.html?part=rss&tag=5888798&subj=news
The announcement left many bloggers less than thrilled, and blog entries with titles such as "Big whoop," "That's it?" and "Google and Sun announce yawn"
I've gotten comments ranging from "lame" to "underwhelmed," describing today's Sun-Google announcement.
Some people are scrambling to find the meat of the deal, but there really isn't any there--Google doesn't even think it's big enough to warrant putting out their own press release.
That's it?! You held a press conference and generated all that hype to announce that at some unnamed point in the future, the Google Toolbar (which is already on practically every computer out there) will be optionally available when people download the Java Runtime Environment?! What a letdown! To say nothing of the fact that bundling is bad. Can you think of an instance where products are bundled together like this that doesn't annoy the heck out of you?
ROFL
If it can't be downloaded and run locally (offline), it will die on the vine.
If it CAN be so downloaded, give me a link!
Meat in the deal?
This thing is a stinking BK Veggie. What possible reason would someone have to depend on a remote site for an application they can get for free to run locally? [Stupidity?]
Good grief, this is a press release without pressure and damn little release.
Looks like it to me too. Tell n3wbie, he's the one that flipped out with the all caps orgasm.
The stuff I read was that SUN will offer a google toolbar with every download. I expected a little more, but maybe there's something cooking in the kitchen.
Fairness? LOL, it's a freaking google blog entry.
"THE WORLD CHANGES THIS WEEK"? Can you imagine anyone else posting such bunk?
They're dousing for untapped revenue streams :)
What I find amusing are the attempts to inject excitement and demand into an already over-done subject.
As for the camera phone thing, I can relate. Even worse are the PDA/Phones (Treo, etc). You wind up with a mediocre at best PDA and a phone that's too large to fit comfortably into a pocket.
I prefer my plain-jain Motorolla phone and Handspring Visor PDA. They have excellent battery life and perform their respective tasks with the least amount of hassle.
Microsoft, Sun, Google and 3/4ths of the industry are still trying to come up with one.
The Golden Calf they are chasing is named "Web Services". They dream of a day when we, in addition to paying our monthly electric, gas, phone and water bills, pay our computing bill.
I hate to whizz in their collective corn flakes but it will never happen.
Exactly! I could talk on it and listen on it ... kinda what the purpose of a cellphone is. I don't want it to balance my checkbook or bathe the dog ... just ring when someone calls and I'll handle the rest.
We use OpenOffice because it works...and it doesn't cost an absurd amount of money like Micro$lop malware.
Go whore your Redmond filth elsewhere, sport.
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