[IP] more on GoogleOffice?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Joab Jackson <jjackson@postnewsweektech.com>
Date: October 4, 2005 3:11:23 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, Ip Ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
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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Subject: [IP] GoogleOffice?




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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/>
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