If you love OpenOffice, have I got news for you. OpenOffice is now available online, thanks to Sun's Java, Javascript and of course a new online office suite called Ulteo. While still in Beta, Ulteo is accepting 15,000 users, so get in while you can. Is a summary of what the blogger world has to say about it,
Lifehacker - Online Documents: Use OpenOffice Online with Ulteo:
If you've come to know and love your OpenOffice.org platform, new online office suite Ulteo might just pull you away from Google Docs or Zoho, or even the upcoming Microsoft Office Live. Ulteo uses Java to recreate nearly the same interfaces as the deskop software's word processor, spreadsheet and database applications. While obviously geared toward OpenOffice enthusiasts, Ulteo can import and export to Microsoft Office and PDF files like its desktop brother. The beta webapp is accepting 15,000 users from North America and Europe at the moment; I got in this morning after fishing the confirmation email out of the spam bin. Ulteo requires a browser have both Javascript and Sun's Java Runtime environment enabled—Ubuntu users in particular might have to check their packages to ensure compatibility.Download Squad - Run OpenOffice.org in a web browser, no installation necessary:
Google, Zoho, ThinkFree probably think they're pretty cool because they let you create, edit, and share office documents online. But none has quite as many features as Microsoft Office or its open source competitor: OpenOffice.org.eWeek - OpenOffice.org Goes Online with SAAS Version:
Now there's a way to run a OpenOffice.org inside your web browser. No need to download and install anything (except for Java). Online desktop startup Ulteo has released a beta version of a web-based interface for OpenOffice.org 2.3. You can launch any OpenOffice application including Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, or Draw.
The application is quite obviously in beta. It loads slowly and it's kind of difficult to navigate between windows. But we dig the concept. The goal is to integrate OpenOffice.org with Ulteo's online desktop, which is currently only available to registered beta testers. Users will get 1GB of free online storage space and the ability to create and edit files from any computer with a web browser.
Ulteo also has a pretty decent pedigree. The company's chairman is Gael Duval, founder of Mandriva Linux.
Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection? If you answered yes to both those questions, you'll be interested in Ulteo's beta of Ulteo Online Desktop, which allows the use of OpenOffice.org over the Internet as SAAS (software as a service).Ulteo is a new company that's working towards developing an online desktop that combines office functionality, courtesy of the open-source OpenOffice.org 2.3 office suite, and common Internet services such as e-mail and Web browsing.
The French company was founded by Gael Duval. Duval is well known in Linux circles as the founder of Mandrake, now Mandriva, Linux.Duval was fired from Mandriva in 2006 after disagreeing with its management over the company's direction.
He immediately started work on his next project, Ulteo.
Ulteo, the software, began life as a Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.
Duval and his partners then decided to transform the project into a Web-based office suite that incorporates elements of both SAAS and a thin-client offering.
In an interview, Duval explained, "Our ultimate goal is to provide any existing application, including open-source apps, Windows, AJAX [Asynchronous JavaScript and XML] apps, [and] Flash apps, through the Ulteo service, without any installation or maintenance headache. Just click and use."
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