Google & Sun Planning Web Office

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Google & Sun Planning Web Office

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 4, 2005 @01:00AM from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

astrab writes "According to this post at Dirson's blog, Google and Sun Microsystems are to announce a new and kick-ass webtool: an Office Suite based on Sun's OpenOffice and accesible with your browser. Today at 10:30h (Pacific Time) two companies are holding a conference with more details, but Jonathan Schwartz (President of Sun Microsystems) claimed on Saturday on this post of his blog that "the world is about to change this week", predicting new ways to access software."

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Google Conquers all by LiquidCoooled · 2005-10-04 01:02 · Score: 5, Funny

[X] Google Earth [X] Google Moon [X] Google Sun Looks like we live in a google universe.

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1. Re:Google Conquers all by famebait · 2005-10-04 01:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes I make mistakes. Don't we all?
  
  I dno't.
  
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2. Re:Google Conquers all by GreyPoopon · 2005-10-04 01:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Looks like we live in a google universe.
  Effective this week, the Universe will be officially renamed to "Googleverse". This is not just an effort to pay homage to Google, our new ruling class, but also to distinguish the Googleverse that we live in from other parallel universes.
  
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3. Re:Google Conquers all by justforaday · 2005-10-04 01:33 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I dno't.
  
  Sheesh! If you're going to use a contraction, the apostrophe goes in place of the letter you removed. This should very obviously be "I d'not."
  
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4. Re:Google Conquers all by tomhudson · 2005-10-04 01:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I suspect they'll do something similar for an office suite, perhaps with the ads targetted to the content of your document.
  I really, really, REALLY am not looking forward to ads targetted towards the content of what I write about ... anyone advertising shit targetted at MY writing has got to have one fucked-up business plan. Example:
  Little Mendle, loathesome tyke,
  Put Crazy Glue on sister's bike,
  She peddled all through Spain and France,
  Welded to her spandex pants.
  Burma Shave
  
  I mean, really, what sort of ads are you going to get with that? Proctologists? Do-it-yourself goatse.cx kits?
5. Re:Google Conquers all by SomeoneGotMyNick · 2005-10-04 01:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  perhaps with the ads targetted to the content of your document.
  
  Yes, typing up love letters will get you ads for eHarmony or Viagra.
6. Re:Google Conquers all by mysticgoat · 2005-10-04 01:50 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Is Google the harbinger of the Sigularity?
  
  I, for one, welcome our new Googleverse!
7. Re:Google Conquers all by Stile+65 · 2005-10-04 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You say "Gmail's early days" like it's already out of beta or something... :)
  
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8. Re:Google Conquers all by mollymoo · 2005-10-04 02:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah, someone really should get round to inventing email.
  
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9. Re:Google Conquers all by PhilHibbs · 2005-10-04 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  In other news, 36.2% of all other parallel universes all named themselves "Googleverse", the other 63.8% of universes don't have a Google. Inhabitants of these other universes began to seek ways of travelling between unniverses on release of this news. Ironically, their efforts are hampered by not having a Google search engine to help in thier research.
10. Re:Google Conquers all by Hard_Code · 2005-10-04 06:50 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Hello! It looks like you are typing a suicide note.
  
  People who wrote suicide notes were also interested in:
  
  sleeping pills
  razors
  alcohol
  one-way plane tickets
  
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Blog blogblog! by generic-man · 2005-10-04 01:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I don't mean to blog, but I totally blogged this yesterblog. Take that, blogosphere!

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Wow by Lisandro · 2005-10-04 01:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I live in another hemisphere and i can hear the guys at Microsoft developing an ulcer!

Seriously, if this is true, things are going to get pretty interesting...
1. Re:Wow by DingerX · 2005-10-04 01:08 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I wouldn't worry about it. Given how long Longhorn/Vista's taken, Microsoft Ulcer will be many years in development.
  Meanwhile, Google Ulcer will rule all while still in beta!
2. Re:Wow by renderhead · 2005-10-04 01:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ...i can hear the guys at Microsoft developing an ulcer!
  
  Yeah, but with their development process, it will be at least 3 years before Ulcer Vista (TM) sees the light of day. By the time it's finally released, it will lack the much lauded "WinPeptic" feature set that they're hyping today, and it will just be playing catch-up to Apple's iReflux (TM), a component of the Indigestion X (TM) system.
  
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Re:Excellent. Still waiting for ... by generic-man · 2005-10-04 01:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Actually, I heard that Google has already ported the Linux kernel from C to JavaScript. As soon as the average user has enough CPU power to run it, we'll all be running Linux all the time!

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Not this online crap again... by Digital+Vomit · 2005-10-04 01:09 · Score: 5, Funny

An online office suite? This is going to be bigger than Microsoft Bob!

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furniture by codepunk · 2005-10-04 01:10 · Score: 4, Funny

I imagine a great deal of furniture is gonna be abused today.

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Nothing to do... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 01:15 · Score: 1, Funny

"Poor" Bill will have nothing to do... except maybe swim around in his pools of money like Scrooge McDuck... What a horrible way to retire.

If only he had a young pretty wife to spend time with.
Terrible Disruption in the FORCE by putko · 2005-10-04 01:19 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm feeling a terrible disruption in the force --- it is as if a million chairs just got thrown out a window.

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Great! by SPYvSPY · 2005-10-04 01:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Let's put "critical software for airports" on a remote server so airport employees can work from home! I can't see any problems with that idea at all!
OOo! Ahh! by christian.elliott · 2005-10-04 01:23 · Score: 2, Funny

OOo! Oh wait... or is it OOoO?

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Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear by Alranor · 2005-10-04 01:24 · Score: 5, Funny

MS won't do the extra effort to brake their OS more on SUN h/w then on the others.

To be fair though, Microsoft don't seem to have to put any particular effort into making their OS break, it just kinda happens.
Re:Two Years Later by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 01:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Thousands of IT people around the world are loosing their jobs
Actually, most of those people are being let go because of their poor grammar skills.
Re:Good deal by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 01:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Google has a homepage? Oh yeah, I remember now. I haven't used that in about two years.
Ikea, stat! by Dingo_aus · 2005-10-04 01:32 · Score: 2, Funny

I can see now that Ikea is going to need to send around a couple of trucks to Redmond, to replace all those chairs that have just been broken!
Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear by b100dian · 2005-10-04 01:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Fear the allmighty M$:
Microsoft will start bundling Windows with Internet Explorer!!

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Re:What if? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 01:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah!! And what if in their secret underground labs they're working on a new hypermatter engine that could transport children and chia pets to distant stars in seconds??? I mean, they're partnering with and draining away talent from NASA, and they have like a kajillion dollars, so they could do it!!!
Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear by uberchicken · 2005-10-04 02:00 · Score: 2, Funny

This is all very interesting, relevant and perhaps even insightful, but we're going to have to mod you down to around 0 kelvin for use of the word 'paradigm'.
I hope it includes spell-checking. by Rocketship+Underpant · 2005-10-04 02:00 · Score: 2, Funny

"they've got too much too loose"

Could I borrow some o's? You seem to have a few too many. :)

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In related new, Balmer places order for chairs... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 02:08 · Score: 1, Funny

"For reasons unbeknownst, Steve Ballmer has orders 200 new chairs for his office alone. While not many details on the rumor exist, speculation has it that Steve is getting quite a deal on chairs lately due to his volume orders from they company, who has requested anonymity.
Re:As Jean Paul Sartre used to say... by cornface · 2005-10-04 02:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Gmail, GOffice, Google Search... I don't need no steenkin' desktop...

Yes, those applications will be magically beamed into your computer's BIOS to run on it's built in web browser.
Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear by mr_gerbik · 2005-10-04 02:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Be honest, your reply went more like this...

Just a branded office? -- takes bong hit -- man, it's on the web.
Googlisms by Peeptophe · 2005-10-04 02:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Google Search, Google Earth, Google Moon, GMail, now GOffice....

and in the works in San Francisco.....wi-fi.

When searching for Wi-Fi hotspots, nerds will finally be able to truthfully say "I can find the G-Spot"

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Google, you don't want to see Clippy angry! by elrous0 · 2005-10-04 03:25 · Score: 4, Funny

He may seem mild-mannered, helpful, even annoying--but you're about to find our what a ruthless corporate bastard he really is.
-Eric

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Re:How it should work by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 03:53 · Score: 1, Funny

You could access your documents anywhere, take them with you, and edit them anywhere.

Nothing new. We already have got telnet and vi, haven't we?
Re:What if? by Unanimous+Cowturd · 2005-10-04 05:14 · Score: 1, Funny

Put the Philip K. Dick book DOWN, and step AWAY from the keyboard. NOW.
Chairs by milimetric · 2005-10-04 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

If I was anywhere Near Redmond I wouldn't be anywhere Near a chair right now...