Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Google: Media Play or IT Investment?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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
>
Disruptive technology - 1/2 as good at 10% of the price. Well, as
google office, like openoffice.org, is available free of charge, and
they are both certainly at least half as good, there is no doubt that
they will make massive inroads into this market.
Google office has the interesting advantage of being fully web-based, so
that the bulk of the application is network-hosted, allowing client
devices to be very thin indeed. That way, the Microsoft lock-in of MS
Office is avoided. Openoffice.org also provides a route out of lock-in,
but in this case, by providing versions which run on most of the popular
operating systems, on most popular architectures, including Windows,
Mac, most Linux supported hardware types (including x86, ppc, arm, sparc
and many others). What's more, a user, it admin or CIO can go either
way now, in the *certain knowledge* that data can be shared between the
two using ODF formats which are supported by both.
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