The Google Insider

Writely ( www.writely.com ) is a web-based word processing application. Google recently went through and scooped them up to become part of the Google Corporation. Writely did a little write-up about the acquisition. What part might this company play into Google? Well, Google has had rumors in the past of developing their hopefully upcoming Web Office Suite — as I may call it — which would be basically Microsoft Office, with many changes of course, but all on the web. How would this be useful for companies? One huge factor would be licensing flexibility. You can buy access for 20 users and have a company of 30 and only use those 20 at one time. Instead with any other Office Suite, you’re looking at buying 30 licenses, no matter if you’re using them all at the same time or not. So in the end, Google has put forth some cash and took on a good application to help better their new Office Suite application which we will hopefully be seeing soon.