On March 6th, Google acquired Upstartle the makers of Writely. This gives them one more product for the productivity stack. Google Desktop serves as the OS platform and with GDrive and Gmail Google provides some of the basic functions. Now with Writely and OpenOffice the stack is better integrated because Writely can be used to publish to websites, blogs and wikis. While addressing analysts recently, Eric Schmidt said that they make 1 to 2 acquisitions a week. In his mind this is a good way to hire talent that is committed to a project.