The fevered speculation about a possible Google and Sun effort to make a hosted version of OpenOffice available should now come to an end. Finally, the two tech companies have come out and stomped on the hysteria about a hosted “Google Office” package.
OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It’s got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It’s got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.