I just heard Google will issue a version of OpenOffice. What effect will
that have?
GOOGLE HAS confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and
word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its
biggest markets.
Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice
from a toolbar.
The other day, when Sun's Scott McNealy and his former employee now
Google chief Eric Schmidt met up, Sun was wary about doing that.
When asked point blank, McNealy said it was something to be
investigated. However Sun's Australian spokesman Paul O'Connor was a
little more forthright about the deal which he said was "huge".
He bubbled that the deal was a wake-up call for Microsoft.
"At the moment most people are used to having to pay for software
packages, but at the end of the day, the value is in the content and
services – not in the software itself," he said.
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Dennis M. Marks
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