Yesterday was "news rich" in the productivity suite market. Two small vendors, ThinkFree and Zoho, made interesting announcements.
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ThinkFree released its ThinkFree Server Enterprise solution on June 22 and announced it on June 23. Basically, this allows an enterprise to take ThinkFree's SaaS productivity suite/document sharing solution and install it on an internal server behind the firewall.
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on June 23, Zoho announced Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint. The e-mail I got from the PR person says,
The add-on provides users with the following functionality:
- Create new documents and
save them to SharePoint in MS Office formats.
- View existing documents
within SharePoint using Zoho Apps (Zoho Writer,
Sheet and Show).
- Edit existing documents
with Zoho Apps and save them back to SharePoint.
- Provides collaborative editing capabilities based on SharePoint's sharing permissions.
You can find more information about it in a post on the Zoho blog.
Via a server-side install, this connects Zoho to a document sharing/management application, similar to Google Apps, Microsoft Office/SharePoint, and ThinkFree--a capability that isn't offered by Corel, IBM, Novell, or Sun.
If you've been poking around, looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office/SharePoint, these are both worth looking at. With the entrance of Adobe into this space earlier in the month, the options just keep getting better and better.


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