OpenOffice May get boost from Google

[Bob Adkins]

It seems that Google has the bucks and coding talent to lend a hand to the
OpenOffice.org crew. They are supposedly looking at the possibilities of
reducing the bloated 80mb download size, and reducing the high memory
requirements. If the Google Earth coders go to work on OOo, I think we can
expect a much livelier program.

Read about it here:

http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=3589

 

[Weatherlawyer]

It seems that Google has the bucks and coding talent to lend a hand to the
OpenOffice.org crew. They are supposedly looking at the possibilities of
reducing the bloated 80mb download size, and reducing the high memory
requirements. If the Google Earth coders go to work on OOo, I think we can
expect a much livelier program.

http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=3589

I wonder what the Balmer Quotient is for that.

Another chair and a sofa?

 

[Bob Adkins]

I wonder what the Balmer Quotient is for that.

Another chair and a sofa?

I don't know, but I hope he throws a fit that makes all the Internet follies
again. I'm sorry, I just don't like that man. It's amazing that Gates put up
with him all these years.

 

[Dariusz]

It seems that Google has the bucks and coding talent to lend a hand to the
OpenOffice.org crew. They are supposedly looking at the possibilities of
reducing the bloated 80mb download size, and reducing the high memory
requirements. If the Google Earth coders go to work on OOo, I think we can
expect a much livelier program.

Which will then only run on XP no doubt.

Dariusz

 

[Craig]

Which will then only run on XP no doubt.

Dariusz

Fwiw,

Google's servers run an optimized Linux. Back a couple of years ago,
Sun would send some engies & pre-sales over to Google to show them why
they should switch to Sun.

After a few months, sales packed it in but Sun senior engies invited
their counterparts over to give presentations demonstrating that generic
x86 blades + Linux = lower downtime & lower operating costs.

Fascinating case. But ya, pity about Google's app strategy.

Craig