The world waits with baited breath on news that Google and Sun Microsystems have sort of announcement to make. What could it be? I haven't seen any speculation yet on the net, perhaps owing to how uncool Sun Microsystems has become. My guess is that it will be some sort of GRID computing initiative, and it will involve all that bandwidth that Google's been buying up. We'll see. I'll update this entry later if I find anything interesting.
Update#1: Internetnews.com thinks that it's gonna be a Google Productivity Suite based on Sun's Star Office. If this is true, it's huge news, blot-out-the-moon huge, as Google has the clout to instantly take market-share away from Microsoft. On a personal note, I'm in the market for a new computer and am eager so save $150 by not having to buy Microsoft Office. Please let it be true.
Have any of the readers ever used Open Office? Please let me know. How does the spreadsheet rate?
Update#2: I like this first line from The Register: Google and Sun are holding a joint press conference this evening to head off an orgy of speculation not seen since Ginger/Segway threatened to overload speculation networks earlier this century.
Hopefuly, for Google and Sun this is not an apt comparison, but Jonathan Schwartz said on his blog, "if I were a betting man, I'd bet the world was about to change." That sounds familiar.
Some speculation here:
http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/ronnaabramson/10245454.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
Posted by: Bob | October 03, 2005 at 04:46 PM
I've used OpenOffice before, but it was just to do some docs and to keep grades for math class. I don't know of any macro capabilities. I use the VBA aspect of Excel quite a bit at work, so I don't see that being eclipsed unless OpenOffice can do some kind of replacement.
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