[IP] more on GoogleOffice?
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From: Joab Jackson <jjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 4, 2005 3:11:23 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, Ip Ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [IP] GoogleOffice?
Google and Sun Microsystems announced a partnership on Tuesday that
will offer Sun's word processing and spreadsheet software online
through Google's websites and toolbars,
They said nothing of the sort. They announced that the Java Runtime
Environment would be bundled with the Google Toolbar (but the toolbar
would not be bundled with JRE, at least not initially, a good idea given
that that JRE is like 20 mbytes--quite a download). No specific
announcements were made about OpenOffice, other than a vague mention
that Google would help in developing.
Here is the release.
http://www.sun.com/2005-1004/feature/index.html
Joab
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 2:55 PM
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Subject: [IP] GoogleOffice?
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From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 4, 2005 2:28:27 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] GoogleOffice?
Google and Sun Microsystems announced a partnership on Tuesday that
will offer Sun's word processing and spreadsheet software online
through Google's websites and toolbars, creating a formidable rival
to Microsoft's Office software package.
The deal will allow users to access Sun's Openoffice files and work
on projects from any personal computer, the companies said in a
statement on Tuesday.
Both companies declined earlier in the day to give details of the
deal in advance of their formal announcement. However, shares in Sun
rose 8 per cent to $4.54 in afternoon trading.
Shares in Microsoft fell ahead of the announcement, on fears the
partnership would create a serious challenge to the software
company's dominance.
Copyright 2005 Financial Times
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?
feed=FT&Date=20051004&ID=5165603
At 05:54 AM 10/4/2005, you wrote:
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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 4, 2005 2:15:27 AM EDT
To: IS296A-2 Fall 2005 <osdddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, noise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: GoogleOffice?
Reply-To: joehall@xxxxxxxxx
Hm, sounds tempting... -Joe
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<http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2282>
Google and Sun Microsystems Planning Major Announcement :
GoogleOffice?
Sun Microsystems and Google are planning a major news conference on
Tuesday, October 4th (today) at 10:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. ET. The
conference will be held by Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Chairman
and CEO and Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman of the Executive Committee
and CEO. Sun Microsystems announced that McNealy and Schmidt will be
discussing a new collaborative effort between the two companies. Yes,
that sound you just heard was Microsoft cringing at the thought of
Google and Sun working together.
Various analysts and geek gossipers are predicting that the
partnership will be centered around Sun's OpenOffice, an open source
office suite with alternative versions of Excel, Word, Powerpoint and
other "MicrosoftOffice-esque" type offerings and StarOffice, a Sun
project related to OpenOffice. To further escalate the rumors, Joerg
Heilig, the former Director of Engineering for StarOffice, is now a
Google employee.
(more)
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