Google & Sun Planning Web Office

Google & Sun Planning Web Office 751

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:00AM 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 (Score:5, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:02AM (#13711471) Homepage Journal

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

Blog blogblog! (Score:5, Funny)

by generic-man ( 33649 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:03AM (#13711472) Homepage Journal

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

Wow (Score:5, Funny)

by Lisandro ( 799651 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:03AM (#13711478)

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...

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

by famebait ( 450028 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:04AM (#13711483)

Yes I make mistakes. Don't we all?

I dno't.

Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)

by DingerX ( 847589 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:08AM (#13711511) Journal

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!

Re:Excellent. Still waiting for ... (Score:4, Funny)

by generic-man ( 33649 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:09AM (#13711517) Homepage Journal

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!

Not this online crap again... (Score:5, Funny)

by Digital Vomit ( 891734 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:09AM (#13711522) Homepage Journal

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

furniture (Score:5, Funny)

by codepunk ( 167897 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:10AM (#13711524)

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

Nothing to do... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:15AM (#13711567)

"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 (Score:5, Funny)

by putko ( 753330 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:19AM (#13711596) Homepage Journal

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

Great! (Score:5, Funny)

by SPYvSPY ( 166790 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:21AM (#13711616) Homepage

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! (Score:2, Funny)

by christian.elliott ( 892060 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:23AM (#13711639) Homepage Journal

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

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:5, Funny)

by Alranor ( 472986 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:24AM (#13711647)

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 (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:25AM (#13711652)

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:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

by GreyPoopon ( 411036 ) writes: <gpoopon@gmaOOOil.com minus threevowels> on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:27AM (#13711680)

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.

Re:Good deal (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:30AM (#13711706)

Google has a homepage? Oh yeah, I remember now. I haven't used that in about two years.

Ikea, stat! (Score:2, Funny)

by Dingo_aus ( 905721 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:32AM (#13711723)

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:Google Conquers all (Score:4, Funny)

by justforaday ( 560408 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:33AM (#13711726)

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."

Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)

by renderhead ( 206057 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:39AM (#13711799)

...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.

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:4, Funny)

by tomhudson ( 43916 ) writes: <barbara,hudson&barbara-hudson,com> on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:40AM (#13711804) Journal

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?

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:2, Funny)

by b100dian ( 771163 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:44AM (#13711826) Homepage Journal

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

Re:What if? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:44AM (#13711836)

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:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

by SomeoneGotMyNick ( 200685 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:47AM (#13711854) Journal

perhaps with the ads targetted to the content of your document.

Yes, typing up love letters will get you ads for eHarmony or Viagra.

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:3, Funny)

by mysticgoat ( 582871 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @09:50AM (#13711876) Homepage Journal

Is Google the harbinger of the Sigularity [wikipedia.org]?

I, for one, welcome our new Googleverse!

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:2, Funny)

by uberchicken ( 121048 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:00AM (#13711963)

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. (Score:3, Funny)

by Rocketship Underpant ( 804162 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:00AM (#13711968)

"they've got too much too loose"

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

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

by Stile 65 ( 722451 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:00AM (#13711971) Homepage Journal

You say "Gmail's early days" like it's already out of beta or something... :)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:3, Funny)

by mollymoo ( 202721 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:06AM (#13712036) Journal

Yeah, someone really should get round to inventing email.

In related new, Balmer places order for chairs... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:08AM (#13712066)

"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:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

by PhilHibbs ( 4537 ) writes: <snarks@gmail.com> on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:21AM (#13712225) Journal

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.

Re:As Jean Paul Sartre used to say... (Score:2, Funny)

by cornface ( 900179 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:48AM (#13712554)

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 (Score:3, Funny)

by mr_gerbik ( 122036 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:48AM (#13712555)

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

Just a branded office? -- takes bong hit -- man, it's on the web.

Googlisms (Score:2, Funny)

by Peeptophe ( 252809 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @10:53AM (#13712633)

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"

Google, you don't want to see Clippy angry! (Score:4, Funny)

by elrous0 ( 869638 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @11:25AM (#13713007)

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

Re:How it should work (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @11:53AM (#13713287)

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? (Score:1, Funny)

by Unanimous Cowturd ( 891079 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @01:14PM (#13714031)

Put the Philip K. Dick book DOWN, and step AWAY from the keyboard. NOW.

Chairs (Score:4, Funny)

by milimetric ( 840694 ) writes: on Tuesday October 04, 2005 @01:54PM (#13714432) Journal

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

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:3, Funny)

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Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

Blog blogblog! (Score:5, Funny)

Wow (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Excellent. Still waiting for ... (Score:4, Funny)

Not this online crap again... (Score:5, Funny)

furniture (Score:5, Funny)

Nothing to do... (Score:1, Funny)

Terrible Disruption in the FORCE (Score:5, Funny)

Great! (Score:5, Funny)

OOo! Ahh! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Two Years Later (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Good deal (Score:2, Funny)

Ikea, stat! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What if? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:2, Funny)

I hope it includes spell-checking. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:3, Funny)

In related new, Balmer places order for chairs... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Google Conquers all (Score:5, Funny)

Re:As Jean Paul Sartre used to say... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear (Score:3, Funny)

Googlisms (Score:2, Funny)

Google, you don't want to see Clippy angry! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How it should work (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What if? (Score:1, Funny)

Chairs (Score:4, Funny)

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