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Google & Sun Planning Web Office

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Why does Google need Sun for this? by wheelbarrow · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sun is a wheezing old horse that squandered it's first mover advantage. They've woken up and found themselves to be high margin dependent in a commodity market.

    Why does Google need to hitch their wagon to this tired old horse? What does Sun bring to the table that Google's legions of new engineering talent can't do themselves?