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GoogleOffice?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:55:23 -0400
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 Timeshttp://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=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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