Schmidt's way of trying to help out his old boss
Schwartz was never Schmidt's boss!
Google hired away some open office folks, why bother with them if Google isn't intending to push open office?
Google's calendar app is coming in July sometime. There's already a page calendar.google.com (but it points to the google site, for now).
Google's dip into OpenOffice began with its hiring of Joerg Heilig, former director of software engineering at Sun, according to Gary Edwards, a consultant and designated representative of the OpenOffice.org open source community.
"He was the project manager for StarOffice, a longtime employee of the Star division, and a very important person to StarOffice," Edwards said. "When he left, there were some real tears. Also a great deal of apprehension."
Community scuttlebutt was that Google was on a hunt for OpenOffice and StarOffice developers, and everyone in the company's Hamburg division was a target, according to Edwards. "No one knows what Google was going to do with Joerg, but they had the keys to the kingdom when they got him," Edwards said.
It has long been rumored that Google is developing its own operating system or desktop, with an online calendaring application scheduled to be released in October.
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