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Technology News: Software : Small Software Firm Delivers for Google
By Larry Hendrick | June 5, 2006
This is great that the Great Big Boy on the block can tap the creative skills of a very small company. Google using a specialist company rather than buying them is a strange twist in the technology realm, but a trend I would like to see continued. And having Picasa available in multiple platforms only strengthens it as the go to product for picture management.
Technology News: Software : Small Software Firm Delivers for Google:
A tiny St. Paul, Minn. software business has become a savior of sorts to the Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google online search giant, which needed its help adapting the popular Picasa photo-organizing program for use on non-Windows computers. A modified version of Google’s Picasa, released last month, runs on the Linux operating system instead of Windows XP. To pull off this software engineering feat, Google tapped St. Paul-based CodeWeavers and its longstanding expertise in making Windows programs work on Linux personal computers.
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