“After going premium and suffering some community fragmentation,
the OpenOffice.org open source office suite is being taken in a new
direction by a company named Ulteo. A brainchild of Gaël
Duval, founder of Mandriva Linux, Ulteo’s mission is to serve as a
platform for putting applications onto the web. Using this
approach, Ulteo has released a public beta of Online
OpenOffice.org, which quite literally puts OpenOffice.org inside a
browser.“There are of course some real advantages to Ulteo’s offering,
not the least of which is overcoming platform-specific issues, but
like any major desktop software application that gets stuffed into
a browser, Online OpenOffice.org has its drawbacks…”
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