An email announcing the availability of Open Office 2.4 had arrived while for a day i didnt check my gmail.
Allthough i rarely browse through the new features list, this time and did. And one thing caught my eye: Open office seems to be moving towards google. Google has always had a penchant for open source. They always rated wikipedia quit high in their results lists, though i dont know if this is a by-product of their existing algorithm or something that they awarded extra weight on purpose.
Some examples of their movement towards google:
* OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs - the name suggests it becomes easy to transfer open office documents in google docs. Google docs already could import open office documents, this will make 2 way traffic easier.
* The writers tools have several extras. One is an integration with Google Translate
* Another writers tools feature is an integration with google maps
One wonders if this is a signal of closer cooperation between google and sun corporations.
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