__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 12 March 2007 07:03 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 20:33 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 09 March 2007 16:34 \__
>>>>
>>>>> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:47:03 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>>>>>><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Desktop Predictions for 2007-2008
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>| 1. Apple will license Mac OS X to OEMs this year (2007) while Vista
>>>>>>>| sales are still sluggish.
>>>>>>>|
>>>>>>>| 2. Mac OS X sales will surge wildly and end up accounting for up to
>>>>>>>| 25% of all new PC shipments by the end of 2007.
>>>>>>>|
>>>>>>>| 3. Emboldened by Apple's success, Sun will push GNU/OpenSolaris
>>>>>>>| to corporations in 2008. The system will probably be called "The
>>>>>>>| Liberty Desktop".
>>>>>>>|
>>>>>>>| 4. Linux will be seen as "ready for the desktop" once desktop
>>>>>>>| diversity becomes the norm. Linux will dominate the low-cost
>>>>>>>| desktop segment thereafter.
>>>>>>>`----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think that the Google Goobuntu project might be very significant.
>>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These guys have the resources to make a huge impact in the Linux
>>>>>> world.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The article is good, but I wouldn't say that there's anything hard to
>>>>> use in Ubuntu now, let alone needing further development. Maybe the
>>>>> register reporter just wants it to look exactly like Windows.
>>>>
>>>> DiBona explicitly said that they would not make Goobuntu public. Then
>>>> again, over a year ago at a conference, Brin stubbornly dismissed
>>>> rumours that Google were working on an Office Suite. Fast forward 2
>>>> years...
>>>>
>>>
>>> In the world of media, spin, circumlocution and so on, a denial is
>>> worth, well, several column inches of speculation, anyway!
>>
>> I wonder if they hid their intentions or simply had a change of mind. At
>> the time (when I blogged it), Google cooperated with OpenOffice quite
>> closely and even sent its engineers over.
>>
>
> Maybe their intentions were not fully determined at that time, but I'd
> say for sure that if they're getting deeply involved in a project like
> openoffice, it's not for the good of their health...
Consider this:
Google: Media Play or IT Investment?
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| In my opinion (as well as others'), its office productivity software
| lacks the breadth and width of the market leader. Schmidt hinted at
| Google's preference for open source software [OSS] so maybe it can
| come up with some better way parlaying Sun's OpenOffice than last
| year's PRware (OpenOffice still falls short of Microsoft's
| ubiquitous products).
`----
http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070307/28878_id.html?.v=2
Yesterday I saw a blog item suggesting that Google should buy OpenOffice (if
that's possible at all). I think they could get the best of both worlds...
Web-based and Open Source software, of which they have been doing a lot
recently (usuaully proprietary, quite sadly). I don't think they'll ever do
this though. OpenOffice weakens the cash cow of Google's big rival and foe
(Yahoo aside). They could assist OOo without ownership. They have helped
Firefox by promoting it in their SERPs.
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