John said:
From the article:
"OpenOffice, an offshoot of Sun's StarOffice, is a leading challenger to
the ubiquitous Office suite, a major cash cow for Microsoft. Both offer
a word processor and spreadsheet among other applications.
"OpenOffice is already an alternative, but if Google gets involved in
supporting it, that could be the thing that puts it over the top," said
Forrester Research analyst John R. Rymer."
Then again, there is this part:
"Increasingly, many of the applications that computer users value most
-- such as news and weather tickers -- run as Web services independent
of the operating systems on their computers.
Java is a backbone of those Web services, along with Microsoft's .NET
architecture."
I didn't know that I value news and weather tickers "most" as opposed to
graphics and word processing programs.
It will be a cold day in hell before I turn to relying exclusively on
internet access in order to use a computer for most of my needs.
--
Regards from John Corliss
My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein and others.
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez please.
