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OpenOffice Online Goes Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-your-service dept.

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."

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  1. Update the post: Collaboration feature exists by thierryk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thank you for the post. There is already a collaboration feature implemented in Ulteo. 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 ;-)). Also, if the host of the session prints a document, it prints for all other guests of the session, who can accept or not. So you can already update your post on that point.

  2. Re:Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You stupid fucking asshole.