[IP] GoogleOffice?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@adelphia.net>
Date: October 4, 2005 2:28:27 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
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:


> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@gmail.com>
> Date: October 4, 2005 2:15:27 AM EDT
> To: IS296A-2 Fall 2005 <osdddi@sims.berkeley.edu>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, noise@sims.berkeley.edu
> Subject: GoogleOffice?
> Reply-To: joehall@pobox.com
>
>
> Hm, sounds tempting...  -Joe
>
> ---
>
> <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)
>
> --
> Joseph Lorenzo Hall
> UC Berkeley, SIMS PhD Student
> <http://josephhall.org/>
> blog: <http://josephhall.org/nqb2/>
>
> This email is written in [markdown] - an easily-readable and parseable
> text format.
> [markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
>
>
> -------------------------------------
> You are subscribed as kenneth.d@adelphia.net
> To manage your subscription, go to
>  http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
>
> Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- 
> people/

-------------------------------------
To manage your subscription, go to
 http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip

Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/