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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 re-create 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 compatability.
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hchaudh1
Posted 8:23 AM 12/12/07
Before everyone else jumps in and starts crying about Java, Ulteo runs on Java 5 and 6 which are magnitudes of times faster than previous Java implementations as 5 and 6 do major upgrades to the desktop API's.
hchaudh1
Riaz Missaghi
Posted 7:02 AM 12/12/07
Uhh why did they do this, openOffice is already java. i mean if it was remade in just javascript then it would be cool for mobile platforms like this n800 i'm on, or everyone elses iPhone
Riaz Missaghi
jarmod
Posted 6:09 AM 12/12/07
Sweet, this has my two least favorite pre-requisites: Java and JavaScript.
jarmod
imanartist
Posted 12:53 PM 12/12/07
The guy behind this is the guy who started Mandrake (now Mandriva) linux. I'm not gonna try this for myself right now because I rarely use office software (plain text and email for me), but I'm really curious to see where they're heading with this. One thing I've wanted for a long time was an online office suite I could host on my own server. I love google docs but I'd love it more if I didn't have to leave all my documents on their server. Not that I don't trust them, I just like handling my own thing. It's like the difference between using blogger and hosting your own copy of wordpress.
Does anyone know of any projects like that? A personal, online office suite?
imanartist
anderl
Posted 10:18 PM 12/12/07
It's 7 am in Central Europe and it says "Sorry - too many users are requesting a session at the moment. Please come back later!" I'll come back later - very much later, when they have sufficient bandwidth for this. Also, even though OOo is translated into most any language in the world, Ulteo comes only in English...
anderl
DanYHKim
Posted 4:22 AM 13/12/07
DesktopTwo also offers OpenOffice, as well as Adobe Reader and its own lower-performance editors, etc. They also give you 1 Gb to hold your documents and a raft of other apps.
I highly recommend DesktopTwo (www.desktoptwo.com) as a "web-os". It has been stable and well managed over several years of use.
I only hope they will find a way to implement a persistent environment between sessions and an internal web browser.
DanYHKim