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Cloud Version of OpenOffice In the Works

Posted by timothy on from the rather-like-the-non-cloud-version dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Apache Foundation revealed in Sinsheim, Germany their plans for a cloud version of OpenOffice.org based on HTML5. Chinese and German engineers use OpenOffice in 'headless' mode as a base."

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  1. exactly what the world needs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Dozens of openoffice users rejoice.

  2. What would be super awesome... by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since they're using OpenOffice as a back end anyway, what would be really awesome is if the desktop version could connect to the cloud service as well, so one wouldn't have to only use a not quite right browser based version if you had it installed, and it would have proper access to local files, and would use far fewer resources because nothing can hog up a CPU like a web browser.

    You know, like an native app. But on a real computer. Perhaps we could call it an application. Or just program.

    RTFA? It's slashdotted :(

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  3. YAY! by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally we get a suite combining the security and reliability of the cloud with the speed of OpenOffice and Java. Just throw in the usability of MS Office, and you're done.