Google office productivity suite?
Ok, so I right before I posted about writely, a friend sent me a link to another upcoming product from google: http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html . Thats right, not only does google have a web based word processor, they also have a spreadsheet solution. Lets compare:
| Microsoft (Commercial) |
| Open Source (Free) |
| Google (Free, web based) |
| MS Office | OpenOffice.org | Mozilla | ||
| Word processor | Word | Writer | Writely | |
| Spreadsheet | Excel | Calc | GoogleSpreadsheets | |
| Email client | Outlook | Thunderbird | GMail | |
| Calendar application | Outlook | Sunbird | Calendar | |
| Database | Access | Base | Google Data API* | |
| Presentation | Powerpoint | Impress | ||
| HTML Editor | Frontpage | Composer | Pages |
* The google data api isn’t really a full fledged database, just a method for working with data on the web, so this is kind of a stretch.
As you can see, google appears to be well on its way to creating a fully functional suite of tools for office productivity.
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