OpenOffice To Become Browser-Based Suite — Sort Of

Soon, you'll be able to run OpenOffice apps in the browser. Just not your browser.

The folks at GravityZoo have been hard at work porting the open-source OpenOffice desktop suite to their online application framework. GravityZoo CTO Marcel von Birgelen posted this note to the OpenOffice.org forums earlier this week:

In the past 3 years we have been working on the GravityZoo Framework, a networked computing platform. Applications written or adapted for this platform run "in the network", rather than just on a server or client. The framework can be used among others to transform existing applications into "net enabled" applications which can be hosted in the framework and become accessible from practically any device via an IP network. At this moment we are preparing a GravityZoo OpenOffice.org porting project.

The company's goal is to get OpenOffice apps running on its framework, which is basically a network-hosted operating system. All files and applications live on the network where they are accessible from any network-enabled device, be it a Vista machine or a handheld device.

A Vista machine, you say? Umm, yes. Currently, GravityZoo runs on top of the .NET 2.0 framework, which is a
little confusing since .NET 2.0 a Microsoft product. Since the company
is obviously embracing open-source tools, it would be nice to see them
build a version of their client for an open-source OS – or at least
build their application server upon an open-source networked framework using open standards.

[via Linuxtoday.com]