On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:01 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=123 > > <From the article> > 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.
There was an interesting article in Computer Trade Only just yesterday saying there are rumours of Google teaming up with Wyse and Wallmart to produce a $200 machine running a google branded version of Linux. presumably that would include a Google branded OOo too. > </article> > > 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? Good idea but probably prohibitively expensive in development time to implement. A low cost Linux box branded by Google might well be quicker and simpler to implement and if it costs $200 it would probably be possible to bundle it with some sort of ISP contract like with Mobile phones. > 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? A web based office suite is most likely to be developed specifically to work on the web. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
