On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM, David Paenson <davepo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I keep on thinking: wouldn't it be wonderful if OpenOffice was > available for tablets running Android? > > Yesterday I had to tell a student who had bought a cheap tablet > including external keyboard she had better resell it and buy instead a > netbook, so she could install OpenOffice for Linux or Windows. > > Could Google not be approached by OpenOffice programmers with an offer > of the sort: > > "We OpenOffice programmers could and would port OpenOffice to android, > but we of course need to be paid proper programmers' salary. A first > working and tested edition would take us around 15 months, working as > a group of 5 programmers." ? > > Google/Android has no proper office suite. Microsoft will probably > never want to port their MS Office to Android, because that would be > the end of Windows 8, and Apple is not really interested in Office > software anyway, at least not for Android. > > So OppenOffice would dominate the market for Android tablets, which > would be good for Google too :). >
Certainly Google would benefit from an Android office suite. But it looks like they have gone with a different option: http://www.quickoffice.com/google_acquires_quickoffice/ -Rob > Yours > Dave
