AjaxOffice now on SourceForge

Few weeks ago I forecasted a server-side office suite provided by Google or Yahoo! in less than one year calling it AjaxOffice. I took 6 minutes to register the project on Sourceforge and few days ago it got approuved. So we now have a AjaxOffice project on Sourceforge. The project description starts with:
AjaxOffice: A complete office suite usable via your browser. Your documents are safely stored on a server so that you don’t have to worry about backups and you can access them from every computer in the world!
AJAX OFFICE is to Microsoft Office what GMail (Google Mail) is to Microsoft OutLook
Or the free software version: AJAX OFFICE is to OpenOffice what GMail (Google Mail) is to Mozilla Thunderbird.
In case you are interested in the project, check the project and send me an email to phauly AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net.

9 thoughts on “AjaxOffice now on SourceForge”

Jesse Andrews 18 August 2005 at 7:33 pm

I’m interested in helping out. Numsum is available as open source, so it would be a good start for the spreadsheet component. Dojo is coming along great for the “ajax” framework.

I’ll join the open source project in a couple days.

I wonder if it would be better to have an “ajax office” where all the logic is on the client side with only storage on the server.

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-April/000769.html
Francesco Bellomi 18 August 2005 at 9:18 pm

Wow! A really interesting (and ambitious) project.

Just a note: I think the name is too focused on the technology. “Ajax” is just a way to implement an idea; it does not really mean anything to the normal end user, it is only a fashionable moniker used by techies. I would choose the name more carefully (by the way… once upon a time there way an open source project name JavaOffice, back in 1997, following the wave of the increasing success of the Java platform, and a couple of years ago there was a MozillaOffice project… you see the pattern here…)
Matt Roder 20 August 2005 at 11:37 pm

Paolo! We were talking about the Google Office Suite and AJAX in my KITCHEN!!!

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Matt Roder 20 August 2005 at 11:40 pm

Paolo! We were talking about the Google Office Suite and AJAX in my KITCHEN!!!

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