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I'm incredibly excited for the guys at Quickoffice! Its really interesting, I still feel like Quickoffice is my baby (I was the lead architect from 2002-2008). It's actually kind of bittersweet to see the whole thing grown up and headed off to Google.

My first startup experience was working in a closet (literally) on the Palm version of Quicksheet as the second development hire.

Over the next 6 years we were bought and sold (twice) and along the way kept growing into an amazing team. It's been really fun being on the forefront of the mobile revolution (Palm -> Symbian -> modern phones/tablets). Quickoffice will always be a very important period in my life.

So congratulations to Google, you've acquired a great product and an even better team. I can't wait to see what the folks at Google have planned. I have no doubt this is a match that will be huge for their plans in the enterprise market going forward:)



QuickOffice was definitely one of Symbian's very few truly great third party software - so congrats for having been a big part part of this!


I am still amazed of what was done before the full specs were released. We're still struggling with file formats from time to time.

P.S. I joined Quickoffice in 2009. Pleased to meet someone who was at the very beginning of it


I really need to meet the new folks:) You guys did a great job!


Would you care to elaborate on the "working in a closet" part? :)


It was actually the server room. We had a couple of desktops serving the website and the development staff (two of us) crowded in there to work as well:)




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