Google and Sun Microsystems are joining hands to bring Openofice to google users.It began with its hiring of Joerg Heilig, former director of software engineering at Sun.
Here’s what one makes of Google’s attack on Microsoft’s money-making machine, namely Windows and Office:
What Google already offers: e-mail, photo managing and instant messaging applications.
What Google is planning: October 2005 launch of Online Calendaring application
Next Up: Google Office
The bottom line: In the words of an analyst, “StarOffice is based on standard XML, so it can act as the transformation layer between any application that can read the XML file format and legacy applications....If Google comes along and ... provides some basic AJAX-based editing, and allows people to do this editing in XHTML and OpenDocument, you have a clear line of capability that goes from simple HTML to a little bit more complicated but data-centric XHTML to a truly bridging XML technology, OpenDocument,” .
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