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Thread ID: 62140 2005-09-28 01:38:00 Bill$ Worst Nightmare SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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391573 2005-10-02 07:08:00 You didn't, I was twisting it :rolleyes: Metla (12)
391574 2005-10-04 22:43:00 New news: a c/p from Silicon Valley News:

Shares of Sun Microsystems saw their best day in recent memory Monday after the company said it would announce a "collaborative effort" this afternoon with the Net's King Midas, Google . A collaborative effort? What could it be? An enormous purchase of Sun's recently launched Galaxy servers? Google Grid? A plan to transform Sun's Agnews Developmental Center campus into a corporate rec room for Google's metastasizing proletariat? A searchable index of Scott McNealy quips?

My money's on a Google Productivity Suite based on Sun's Star Office software . Certainly that seems to be the sort of direction that Sun President Jonathan Schwartz is hinting at in a post to his Web log Monday afternoon . "Value is returning to the desktop applications, and not simply through Windows Vista," Schwartz wrote, "but in the form of applications that are network service platforms . From the obvious, to music sharing clients and development tools, there's a resurgence of interest in resident software that executes on your desktop, yet connects to network services . Without a browser . Like Skype . Or QNext . Or Google Earth . And Java? OpenOffice and StarOffice? If I were a betting man, I'd bet the world was about to change . And that what just happened in Massachusetts, when a state government made what was to me a very rational statement -- we will pick an open standard to protect the right of our citizens to access data and services; we will then buy from vendors that support standards -- will be a shot heard 'round the world . "

I don't know about the world, but if Sun and Google do uncrate an office productivity solution -- say a Sun Ray ultra-thin client optimized to run "Google Office" -- that shot will definitely be heard up in Redmond, along with a lot of expletives and an anguished scream or two . Because if anyone can shift personal computing out of Microsoft's domain and into the open, it's Google .

UPDATE: Looks like I was on the right track, unless I'm somehow missing the incredible ramifications of making the Google Toolbar available as a Java Runtime Environment download option .



PS: the site appears to be broken or runing very badly right now . . . taking me a long time to upload this . . I got a DOS and two time-outs trying it first! 		SurferJoe46 (51)
391575 2005-10-04 22:44:00 New news: a c/p from Silicon Valley News:

Shares of Sun Microsystems saw their best day in recent memory Monday after the company said it would announce a "collaborative effort" this afternoon with the Net's King Midas, Google . A collaborative effort? What could it be? An enormous purchase of Sun's recently launched Galaxy servers? Google Grid? A plan to transform Sun's Agnews Developmental Center campus into a corporate rec room for Google's metastasizing proletariat? A searchable index of Scott McNealy quips?

My money's on a Google Productivity Suite based on Sun's Star Office software . Certainly that seems to be the sort of direction that Sun President Jonathan Schwartz is hinting at in a post to his Web log Monday afternoon . "Value is returning to the desktop applications, and not simply through Windows Vista," Schwartz wrote, "but in the form of applications that are network service platforms . From the obvious, to music sharing clients and development tools, there's a resurgence of interest in resident software that executes on your desktop, yet connects to network services . Without a browser . Like Skype . Or QNext . Or Google Earth . And Java? OpenOffice and StarOffice? If I were a betting man, I'd bet the world was about to change . And that what just happened in Massachusetts, when a state government made what was to me a very rational statement -- we will pick an open standard to protect the right of our citizens to access data and services; we will then buy from vendors that support standards -- will be a shot heard 'round the world . "

I don't know about the world, but if Sun and Google do uncrate an office productivity solution -- say a Sun Ray ultra-thin client optimized to run "Google Office" -- that shot will definitely be heard up in Redmond, along with a lot of expletives and an anguished scream or two . Because if anyone can shift personal computing out of Microsoft's domain and into the open, it's Google .

UPDATE: Looks like I was on the right track, unless I'm somehow missing the incredible ramifications of making the Google Toolbar available as a Java Runtime Environment download option .



PS: the site appears to be broken or running very badly right now . . . taking me a long time to upload this . . I got a DOS and two time-outs trying it first! 		SurferJoe46 (51)
391576 2005-10-04 22:45:00 Sorry for doubling the reply...I didn't think I got through the first 4 or 5 times..... SurferJoe46 (51)
391577 2005-10-05 16:50:00 Interesting reading on the Google / Sun thing:

FAQ: The Sun-Google partnership (news.com.com)

Join the dots........... 		Standing_Amazed (7841)
391578 2005-10-05 20:48:00 Yesterday I listened to radio reports on the Google vs MS story, and Open Office Org was mentioned. However, OOO was not highlighted, but rather glossed over. This seems strange to me. Whats the big deal about Google or anyone else having applications to rival MS Office, considering OOO is free (or if a charge is made to businesses it must be much less than MS Office)?? Strommer (42)
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