Title: No Google Office To Be Expected
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: October 9, 2005

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# No Google Office To Be Expected

October 9, 2005

According to an [interview of Sergey Brin](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/08/google_office/)(
founder of Google) by [John Battelle](http://battellemedia.com/), Google does **
not** plan to publish a web based office, as rumored before (fueled by a [new partnership between Google and Sun (owner of openoffice.org)](http://news.com.com/Sun+and+Google+shake+hands/2100-1014_3-5888701.html)).

“I don’t really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology
and port them directly,” he said. I agree with that. We have to think about new 
tools to be our future web apps. Just porting office apps to the web [won’t work](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/10/08/office-web-apps-are-just-proof-of-concepts/).

So what’s this deal about now? Google seems to want a wider distribution of their
toolbar. According to the [Cnet coverage](http://news.com.com/Google+and+Sun+deal+Thats+it/2100-1012_3-5888798.html)(
via John Battelle [again](http://battellemedia.com/archives/001914.php)):

“Details about what exactly that will entail were vague at best, with the only nugget
offered being that Sun, in the immediate future, will make Google’s toolbar a standard
part of the package when users download Sun’s Java Runtime Environment from the 
server seller’s Web site.”

Sergey Brin further stated that distributed thin web applications allowed you to
do “new and better things than the Office package and more.” So further tools by
Google can be expected.

google, office, sun, openoffice, ajax

[Code](https://alex.kirk.at/category/code/)

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