Google wants to improve OpenOffice and publish details of its search and computing data center (zz)

According to News.com, Google is planning to recruit programmers to improve OpenOffice.org to show that it complies with open Source code Software development commitment. In addition, when talking about open-source software, Google also published some details about its search and computing data center.

OpenOffice is originated from Sun's StarOffice software. Five years ago sun donated the software to turn it into an open source.CodeProject. However, it was not until recently that this software, as a competitor of Microsoft Office, attracted real attention.

Chris DiBona, manager of Google's open source code program, said that Google currently thinks it can help OpenOffice do something, such as reducing its memory needs or "slimming" its 80 Mb body ". He hopes to recruit more talents to help improve OpenOffice.

Google has shown that open-source software is attractive to it. Chris said that many Google programmers have grown up in the Open Source era, so it is natural to promote the development of open source software. However, Google embraces Open Source Software for commercial reasons.

In early October, Google and Sun announced cooperation on several software projects, but did not publish much details. Asked about the possibility of cooperation between the two sides in OpenOffice, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said at the time that he was "willing to help make the software more widely available ." However, Microsoft is the direct competitor of OpenOffice (and Microsoft is the biggest competitor of Google.

OpenOffice has received a lot of attention recently. On the one hand, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has just been announced. It has added some new features and supported OpenDocument standards. It has the opportunity to break through the shackles of Microsoft's exclusive file format.

In addition, Google has been reluctant to talk about details of its search and computing data center, but DiBona has released some details this time.

He said that Google's search service is mainly based on the Linux operating system, but the version used is not red hat or Novell's SuSE Linux, but Linux Project Leader Linus Torvalds will be published on the kernel.org websiteProgram.

The open source code technology used by Google also includes the python programming language and MySQL database. The Google blogger website uses the Apache web server software and tomcat software package required to run Java software.