Google + Sun = Google Office ?
October 4th, 2005 at 10:09pm
“The world changes this week“! This is what Jonathan Schwartz — President and COO of Sun Microsystems said in his personal blog couple of days back (oct 01, 2005)!
If I were a betting man, I’d bet the world was about to change. And that what just happened in Massachusetts, when a state government made what was to me a very rational statement - we will pick an open standard to protect the right of our citizens to access data and services; we will then buy from vendors that support standards - will be a shot heard ’round the world.
And today, Google Inc’s Eric Schmidt and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy are giving a news conference, announcing some form of collaboration between their companies! [Web Cast Link]
Its going to be a very exciting day!
Microsoft office 12 suddenly seems to be in deep trouble.
According to slashdot, we can expect it to be an AJAX version of OpenOffice.. wow!. I am super excited!
Tags: ajax, google, microsoft, msoffice, office, openoffice, staroffice, sun
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3 Comments Add your own
1. Vin | October 5th, 2005 at 10:39 am
I am excited too. I love Google’s products and philosophy. It would emerge a winner if it continues doing “Do no evil” as it grows. And oh yes, AJAX, that’s one exciting thing that I am currently working on personally and want to do and see more of that stuff.
2. Rick | October 6th, 2005 at 10:40 pm (subscribed to comments)
I can think of few things dumber than an office suite running in a
browser. Apart from the mediocrity of Openoffice itself, can you imagine
something as bloated actually running in a browser without crashing, and
working in IE, Firefox, Opera? A 100k Javascript will bring browsers to
their knees, how on earth will a few megs of code run properly?
I hate web interfaces, Ajax or not, because they’re clunky, slow and
prone to crashes. And I wouldn’t trust my documents to Google or Sun
instead of storing them locally. Can you imagine the security implications
of having your corporate files stolen if a hacker broke into their
servers.
Dumb, dumb, dumb
3. Arjun | October 6th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
It may not be purely a web based application ! As a part of the install, they might have a small webserver or some software which would run on the local PC, and work with the browser!……….the whole point is,……..it should be independent of the platform!
Lets wait and see :)
Btw, check this : http://theinquirer.net/?article=26734
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