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OpenOffice Online Goes Beta
Stony Stevenson sends word of the beta availability of a software-as-a-service version of OpenOffice 2.3, brought to us by Mandriva Linux creator Gael Duval. According to Ars, this package "easily offers the most features of any online office suite," though it "lacks the collaborative or document-sharing features of competitors like Google Docs or even Microsoft's Office Live Workspace." "To create this feature-rich environment, Online OpenOffice.org requires a modern browser with JavaScript and the Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.4+ plug-in. The setup has been tested in Firefox 1.5 and above, IE6 and 7, and even Safari, though Ubuntu users are specifically warned that they must be using the Sun Java (Sun JRE) plug-in or the current implementation of Online OpenOffice.org won't work."
I should read a little more carefully. The article says that it's VNC. Soo... now you know. And you don't even have to RTFA. :-P
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Since neither the article or the summary provide links:
The company:http://www.ulteo.com/
Online OOO:http://www.ulteo.com/home/ooo
And if you dont want to register just to see it. Bug me not works for now.
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There is already a collaboration feature implemented: work online with others fully dynamically, much better than any other online productivity suite. Also, if the host of the session prints a document, it prints for all other guests of the session. Just click "share desktop" and invite people to work with you on any OpenOffice.org app (in read only mode or active mode). You can invite as many people as you want (careful not to give active role to too many people or it will be hard to manage ;-)).
So you can already update your post on that point.
"with massive bandwidth, why connect to a centralized online service instead of just connecting to your home computer?"
Because then Google can't be readin yur documents, sellin yur marketing info, and catchin' yur terrist activities.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
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And here's the link to do it: PortableApps.com. I've put about 100 512MB and 1.0GB flashdrives into the hands of not-so-savvy persons, loaded with OOo, Firefox (with a specific set of bookmarks and extensions), and a couple of other goodies. These have gone to job seekers who have been through our "Work Place Basics" and similar courses. Haven't gotten any meaningful amount of feedback yet, but that suggests that at least the program hasn't flopped right out of the starting gate.
Figure that loading a USB drive with OOo and Firefox will eat up about 300 MB. If you add a portable XAMPP, as I did so I can work on some web development, that would be another 300 MB. Worth it though, at least on my 80GB WD Passport.
Check out MonkeyTex, which uses pdftex for processing. It has collaboration features etc. I think that Latex is an amazing way to go for online collaboration, especially these days since many people are learning how to edit wikis using markup languages; so learning the Latex syntax is not the big leap it was 5-10 years ago.