“Anyware Office is also a full-fledged application
server that uses Java to transport itself to almost any platform.
In other words, users can point their browsers to the application
server and in about a minute they can have a fully functional,
thin-client version of Anyware Office running on their machine.
Which takes accessibility to a whole new level. With an Anyware
Office application server running in an organization, it no longer
matters who’s running Linux or who’s running Windows. Users can use
the thin-client office suite to point to a common set of
applications with a common file format. A multi-user filesystem is
built into the server as well, so file sharing becomes that much
easier across a centralized set of directories.A big side benefit of this technology is that you can see it in
action across the Internet first and get a try-before-you-buy
opportunity. The Anyware Office online demo will show you a
full-featured set of Anyware Office tools, all seamlessly working
through your favorite Web browser. And as near as I could tell, all
of the functionality of the desktop-installed version was
duplicated in the online version. I concentrated on the abilities
of Spreadsheets, naturally, and found that all of the features (and
the foibles, too) worked identically on each platform.I tested the online demo in KDE with Netscape and Konqueror, and
in GNOME on Galeon; no problems appeared during my use of the
online version of Spreadsheets. I even tested the online version
using IE with Windows XP, and everything worked there as well. To
round out the test, I tried running the demo with IE on Mac OS X,
and there the demo applet refused to initialize, which I thought
rather odd, since Java 2 is one of the main component APIs for OS
X. (The demo applet also failed to run on Netscape in Mac OS
9.2.)”