As I said before, Cloud based Office Suites are becoming more mature, I think LO should start developing an HTML5 browser based office and ideally integrate it with Zimbra! It would be great to install LO locally and be able to share it through the web to others from your computer without any further installation necessary. Enterprises could make only one installation on a huge server and anyone could use it directly from the browser, and Cloud companies like Amazon could just upload an image and make it available for all their customers. Cheers! Jaime R. Garza On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 00:33, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387@gmail.com>wrote:
Zimbra is exactly what would push LO to be a serious threat to Microsoft Office. Isn't that what the goal is of this project to slowly eat away at Microsoft's majority market share? On 1/2/11 10:00 PM, NoOp wrote:On 01/02/2011 10:49 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:On 2011-01-01 1:43 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent program such as outlook.Well, I disagree, but there is no way to prove one of us is right, so... There are one of three ways it can be done.1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and integrate it into the LO suiteEvolution is extremely buggy, *especially* on Windows, but yes, even on *nix... Yes, there are many people who run it without problems, but there are far more who complain of constant crashes and bugs, even on the stablest of systems (otherwise)... 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena.Thunderbird+Lightning would be the best other choice here...not perfect by any stretch, but the only viable FLOSS alternative on Windows at the moment, at least that I am aware of... the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size,which would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth.Thunderbird+Lightning is not that big... Might be worth considering collaborating with Zimbra:http://www.zimbra.com/ I found this interesting: < http://www.zimbra.com/forums/developers/37811-openoffice-org-integration-google-docs-zoho.htmlThe guy was using "SuSE build of OOo 3.2". I generally use SeaMonkey, but I've been experimenting with Zimbra Desktop lately& it seems to be an interesting alternative w/calendar, Document, Briefcase, etc. And it's open source: http://www.zimbra.com/about/ albeit with their own ZPL: http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html A tie-in with LibO& Zimbra would be about as close as MS Outlook/Office (I'm not referring to Outlook Express) with a multiplatform environment.-- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2Bhelp@documentfoundation.org> Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
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