On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:25:10 -0500, Ian <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 19:14 +0100, John McCreesh wrote:
"A Chinese company that offers a rival suite to Microsoft Office is
following industry trends by turning its software into a Web-based
service.
"Evermore Software, based in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi, has for
years offered a software suite that looks very similar to Microsoft
Office
but costs less. Now the company sees its rivals moving online, and it is
designing a Web version of its suite to compete with the likes of Google
Docs and Microsoft's upcoming Office Web apps."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc2009089_897536.htm
Basically why we need on-line OOo. I suspect not a trivial task. Maybe a
thin client login through a web browser as a trial? Advertising could
pay for the hosting in the longer term. Advantage of that approach is
not having to do anything much with the code and it happens pretty
immediately and provides far more comprehensive facilities than Google
Docs.
OpenOffice.org needs to become a stronger player on the area of
collaboration, right now there are some core technologies in linux that
can provide this. Unfortunately not so much on Windows or OSX. However
Freedesktop initiatives such as Telepathy can be used to enable
collaboration and conferencing on the core of the OS that OOo can just
call to enable such a thing.
Collabora's Telepathy can take the load of the collaboration and we could
just focus on devloping a connector to their protocols.
Presentations to such technology can be seen here:
http://www.collabora.co.uk/projects
Unfortunately from the description can be seen here since most focus on
media but on the demo other technologies that are broadcast can also be
used such as XML.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
