The long talked about Google Office is taking shape. At the same time as TechCrunch has displayed screenshots of a possible Google Calendar called CL2, Google has announced that it has acquired Writely, an online, collaborative word-processor creating using JavaScript and DHTML. Documents are saved online (perhaps in Google's rumoured GDrive). Of particular interest is that GMail, when paired with CL2, provides a decent alternative to Exchange/Outlook, and it was only in November that Google annnounced GMail for Domains, a system whereby Google acts as a company's mail server, but uses the companies own domain name for the email address.
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Member since:2005-07-06
there is nothing stops google to use .Net and windows . Google is not linux.
However, they may just get the idea and re-write the whole server side using Java or Python, and use the javascript part of it from the original. That is the most difficult part of that application anyway.
Member since:2005-07-12
If they did a re-write, I'd say it would be in Python, since it's easy and more condusive to iterative rapid development (a necessity in this problem domain), and Guido Van Rossum (Python's Benevolent Dictactor for Life) works for them.
I also find it likey for them to do re-write, since their entire infrastructure is based on an internal customized version of Red Hat, with some Solaris thrown in. With that, and the fact that this mix has been so fabulously functional, efficient, reliable, and successful, I find it highly unlikey that they would introduce Windows servers into the mix, just so they can ASP.Net based Writely.
Re-writing ASP.Net code to something like Python shouldn't be to difficult.
Member since:2005-07-07
they might use mono, or maybe if port it to another platform. But I see mono as the most likely option at the moment 
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I agree. It shouldn't be too hard to port to mono and it would be completely cross platform if it was done, although Google hasn't made many cross platfrom apps.
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2005-07-27
they might use mono, or maybe if port it to another platform. But I see mono as the most likely option at the moment
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