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Open Office - [discuss] Digg Story: More Evidence That Google Is Buying Sun?

[discuss] Digg Story: More Evidence That Google Is Buying Sun?

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 01:27 PM PST


Google to buy Sun? Maybe...

What do you all think - and what do you think it would mean for OpenOffice.org?

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[discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 08:19 AM PST

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:42 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: 

Never is a long time. Do you think MOOX will replace .doc and .xls
eventually? Certainly MS believe so and if OD beats MOOX as the
preferred open standard it will indeed eventually replace .doc and .xls
but it will probably be 10s of years before you never sees another .doc
or xls file just as you still see typewriters from time to time.
 

Google's stock is largely based on speculation. Vapour ideas, which is
why it will not be sustainable if it doesn't translate the projected
growth into reality fairly quickly. That requires purchasing large
established companies with reasonable growth potential but that is very
expensive - eg buying Sun would cost billions. Buying start ups with
phenomenal potential growth based on gambling on some industry trends is
also necessary and likely to be a lot less expensive and if Google's
presence and size is what these need to enable growth they are adding
considerable value just by making the purcahase. Writely is an obvious
example. Its not really an either or but a both. So Google could buy
irows and wikicalc or neither. On balance I'd say Googles forage into
OOo indicates they are likely to want to promote OpenDocument over MOOX
but to what extent they are prepared to put hard cash behind that is
difficult to say and I'm sure they will have worked out the
cost-benefits of different options.

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Ian Lynch
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www.opendocumentfellowship.org
www.schoolforge.org.uk


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[discuss] Reactive to account New !!!

Posted: 09 Mar 2006 01:15 PM PST

I believe the culprit is "webtekniks.com" and not "paypal.com" and I
believe we are dealing with fraudulent info gathering. It's the 2nd time
I forwarded the e to paypal's security adr: com, something
paypal has requested all along.
Tork

Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
 

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[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Is Here

Posted: 08 Mar 2006 02:02 PM PST

John W. Kennedy wrote:
 

Of course OOo could run on Mac OS9 if anybody would develop a port for
it. An early OOo predecessor, StarOffice 3, had a MAC version (though
I'm don't remember if it was sold or not). That was roughly ten years
ago and so I have no doubt that a MAC OS9 version of OOo would be
possible if anybody had enough interest for it and created a port for
it. Obviously that's not the case.

Best regards,
Mathias

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[discuss] Microsoft Office's latest plug-in - your phone calls

Posted: 06 Mar 2006 07:39 AM PST

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On 3/6/06, Ian Lynch <com> wrote: 


I think, and again, I'm just going on what I read in the article, it is
different from VoIP.

It's just that Word rings, and you answer it by clicking clippy. It that
you log into MSO (the corporate edition) so that MSO "knows" where you are
physically in the building. It then sends that information to the CISCO
phone server, which routes all your incoming calls to the phone nearest the
computer you are using. So it's just that MSO is your phone. It just talk=
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to your phone system.


Maybe we should just do a deal with an open source VOIP software 


That could be a good idea, having some sort of hook into GIZMO (Linspire's
Open Source VoIP) or something - but that's different than what this is
talking about.

I don't really know if OOo needs to answer this with a matching feature - I
don't think we can very easily, and I really don't think we should. I just
saw it as one more way that MS is making MSO dug deeper into the corporate
user experience.

I mean, if you're going to do this - have your computers tell the phones
where to ring - why isn't it a part of the operating system (which for this
service would have to Windows) - instead of the office suite? You have to
log in to a terminal to use it - (in a corporate environment like this is
talking about) - so why doesn't Windows tell CISCO where you are, instead o=
f
MSO.

Since when do you have to log into Office? Everytime I've been in a shared
environment (mostly at school) - when I logged into Windows, my copy and
setup of Office was already there.

I think MS could have made it where Windows told CISCO where you are - but
then the corps could use OOo on their copy of Windows, and still get the
phones to follow you. But by tying it into Office somehow - they made it
where if you want this service (and I can see the value in it) - you have t=
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have Windows *AND* Office for it to work.

Just my take on the matter...

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[discuss] Fr: Bug sur le bonton KP_DEL et le "point" (.) dans openoffice

Posted: 05 Mar 2006 11:07 AM PST

On Sun March 5 2006 18:54, + Sam wrote: 
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This list is generally an English only mailing list. If you would like to=20
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