Google Gets Into Office Space
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: March 10, 2006
Google Inc. said yesterday that it had bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, gaining its Writely Internet word processing software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Writely lets users compose documents on the Web and share them with others, according to notes on Google's Web site yesterday.
Upstartle released a test version of Writely software last August.
The acquisition puts Google in direct competition with Word software from Microsoft and signals the intention of Google to expand its reach into Microsoft products.
While Microsoft is already testing small-business software that is delivered over the Internet, the company is not offering word processing software that is delivered using the Web. Although they beta-tested it back in 1999... and I was there to see them decide that it would cannibalize Office, so they didn't launch it... shame, eh?
Published: March 10, 2006
Google Inc. said yesterday that it had bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, gaining its Writely Internet word processing software. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Writely lets users compose documents on the Web and share them with others, according to notes on Google's Web site yesterday.
Upstartle released a test version of Writely software last August.
The acquisition puts Google in direct competition with Word software from Microsoft and signals the intention of Google to expand its reach into Microsoft products.
While Microsoft is already testing small-business software that is delivered over the Internet, the company is not offering word processing software that is delivered using the Web. Although they beta-tested it back in 1999... and I was there to see them decide that it would cannibalize Office, so they didn't launch it... shame, eh?
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