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06 Sep 08
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At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week, the California-European start-up will preview a Web office suite that is based on the free, open-source OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office's main desktop competitor.
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ZoooS offers Google Docs-like collaboration, such as letting users simultaneously edit the same document.
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"It's almost all JavaScript, so it runs really fast; you don't even need Google Chrome," El-Emam said.
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The basic cost is $999 for a perpetual server license for 10 users, which includes installation support and a few basic support incidents after that.
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ZoooS' framework translates the OpenOffice.org code, making it browser-friendly.
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He conceded that ZoooS competes with the desktop version of OpenOffice.org. As a result, attempts to forge an alliance with the open-source group "weren't really successful," he said, despite promises to release ZoooS' code as open source via the GPL (General Public License) within the next six months.
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