Google To Acquire DocVerse; Office War Heats Up

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/19/google-to-acquire-docverse-office-war-heats-up/

by raghus • 17 years ago

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qeorge2• 17 years ago

DocVerse looks like an awesome product, but I'm confused about how it fits into Google's strategy with Docs. Its a plugin for MS Office, that actually gives Office some of the better features of Google Docs (sharing, real-time collaboration). I thought Docs was positioned as an Office replacement.

This bullet on the DocVerse homepage says it best: "Keep using Word, PowerPoint and Excel"

cgranade2• 17 years ago

If you have to have a Google login to get to DocVerse, and if they make DocVerse-hosted Office documents available through Google Docs, then they've made the barrier to entry into Docs a hell of a lot lower. Moreover, this could work well with their other big project: Wave. There's currently no good way to get things in and out of Wave, making it much less than ideal for applications like what Pulse and SharePoint are targeting. Maybe DocVerse can somehow help with that?

qeorge2• 17 years ago

"if they make DocVerse-hosted Office documents available through Google Docs"

I think that's the key there. If they can add the ability to edit Word docs online with high fidelity that would be really compelling.

However, DocVerse does not currently have this capability, and neither does Google Docs.

sahaj• 17 years ago

1) buy company 2) use code and people for other projects 3) open source the code 4) profit???

Google To Acquire DocVerse; Office War Heats Up

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