Chad Smith wrote:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=123
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There's been lots of talk recently about the Web Office - and who is
building it. Microsoft released Office Live in beta last week, but it was
never going to be a fully functional Office suite like MS Office is. Google
has been on peoples minds as the bigco most likely to come out with a strong
Office Suite for the Web - and we're seeing hints that it may yet come true.
Last week they announced a hosted email service for organizations and there
are signs of an impending Google Calendar product.
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Could one of the signs be Google's association with OpenOffice.org? Do you
think a web based version of OpenOffice.org would be a good idea? Do you
think a web-based OOo should be just a hosted version of OOo - or a
completely different set up with just some OOo branding and OOo features (of
course, the big ones like: the OpenDocument formats being the default,
export to PDF and Flash, MSO compatibility, Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw,
Math, etc.)?
What do you think?
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- Chad Smith
http://www.gimpshop.net/
http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/
Because everyone loves free software!
Google's office will be heavily Google-branded (no trace of OOo). We
have always heard about the need for a lite office; and Google's if they
do it right may feel lite-weight (via AJAX) but have the full features;
or be pluggable.
Writely's implementation of a Web-based text program is a model here.
Google's will need to do more but behave "lite."
All speculation on my part.
-Sam
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