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NetDocuments(R) Develops Integration With Google Wave | Search Journal
Press Release Excerpts: NetDocuments, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) content management service provider, announced today that it is developing an integration with Google Wave(TM) (http://wave.google.com/) to simplify document collaboration and extend the NetDocuments collaborative reach to more people.
Google Wave is a new communication and collaboration tool, currently available as a developer preview. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. Wave supports live transmission as a person types, and participants can have faster conversations, see edits more quickly and interact with others in real time.
The integrated solution offers NetDocuments customers the following:-- Ability to create a wave within NetDocuments and display it as a separate object in a folder. It can also be embedded as an IFrame within a NetDocuments Project/Client-Centric Workspace allowing the wave contents to be visible when viewing the entire Workspace.-- Ability to have NetDocuments folders, documents, and search results displayed within a wave.-- Drag and drop documents from an internal NetDocuments folder to a wave, and vice-versa.-- Login to the collaborative space using any methods that Google supports.-- Leverage the real-time wave collaborative features when it's released to the market.
Microsoft-led Forum Yields Tools for OOXML Interoperability - Business Center - PC World
Is there nothing that can cool the flames of this document war?
Interesting coverage of the recent OOXML Interoperability event in London (Monday). Real stuff not talk. Since Florian, Jason and i are working on an OpenWeb ready HTML+ layer riding over OOXML there are some things mentioned that look very interesting.
..."An Opera browser plug-in for Open XML Document Viewer v1.0 was released at the meeting; the tool provides direct translation for Open XML documents (.DOCX) to HTML, enabling access to Open XML documents from any platform with a Web browser, including mobile devices. The document-viewing software already includes a plug-in for Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8...."
..."Microsoft and the other participants in Monday's forum also made available a beta of Apache POI 3.5, a Java API (application programming interface) to access information in the Open XML Format....."
IntalioCloud takes on Salesforce.com » VentureBeat
IntalioCloud takes on Salesforce.com with public-private cloud design. Note that business applications developed for use in Salesforce’s platform have to use the company’s proprietary programming language, while IntalioCloud is open to many languages such as JavaScript and Ruby. Third, Intalio says it provides 25 gigabytes of data storage per account, much more than Salesforce. $42 Mill in VC
The nexxus here is that both salseforce.com and Intalio need to provide integration into the MSOffice productivity environment to compete with Microsoft Azure.
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Under the Covers: Alfresco's SharePoint Services (WSS) Killer
Reverse engineering the MS Office SharePoint Protocol:
CMSwire has a good review of Alfresco's latest feature, the repurposing of MSOffice as an editing and collaboration front end for the Alfresco Open Web Content Management System. <br>
Microsoft ha sof course been very busy re-purposing MSOffice as a front end editor - shared collaboration space for their own MOSS WebStack - CMS. Thanks to the EU, Microsoft was forced to publicly disclose integration and interop methods used to wire together MOSS. Alfresco seized the disclosure to create their own re-purposing.<br>
IMHO, this is exactly how the Microsoft monopoly needs to be cracked. Instead of replacing MSOffice at great cost and disruption to business users, tap into the same re-purposing methods Microsoft uses as they try to shift that monopoly center from the desktop to a proprietary MS Web.<br>
"... The Office SharePoint Protocol is one of the big achievements that Alfresco has come out with to sell Alfresco Share as a true viable alternative to SharePoint in the enterprise.... <br>
"... Microsoft Office is still the most widely used productivity suite in organizations today. That's a huge reason why SharePoint has been so successful — Microsoft created a protocol to enable Office to interact directly with SharePoint. This means you don't have to leave the discomfort of our Office application to create, edit and manage documents and calendar events in SharePoint."
For Alfresco, the break came when Microsoft released a number of technical specifications to the public (including the spec for SharePoint 2007) in the name of interoperability.
Alfresco used this information to implement the Office and SharePoint protocols as a compatible server — thus the same functionality users get working between Office and SharePoint, they can now also get natively with Office and Alfresco.
DocVerse: Former Softies aim to make Office work like Google Docs | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Two former Microsoft employees have started a company aimed at making Microsoft Office more like Google Docs — at least on the online-collaboration front.
DocVerse — a stealth startup formed by Shan Sinha, a former Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server strategist, and Alex DeNeui, also formerly involved with SQL strategy at Microsoft — has begun offering beta invitations to a few hundred interested testers.
Document Management & Collaboration with Alfresco
slide presentation featuring the Alfresco Share collaboration protocol that is based on a reverse engineering of the MSOffice-SharePoint Collaboration Protocol. Good set of slides. Has some nice screenshots of the collab working inside MSWord.
Video Conferencing Review » Blog Archive » Microsoft uses software edge on Cisco in unified communications war
Microsoft has long approached unified communications from an email and software-centric world, while Cisco has brought its PBX legacy to bear with a strong voice message.
But enterprises’ definitions of unified communications and their expectations for the technology have changed. Two years ago voice was considered the cornerstone of any UC deployment, but that thinking — at least in some circles — has changed, Kerravala said.
“Presence is now the centerpiece of UC,” he said. This pushes the advantage toward Microsoft and its rich ecosystem of software partners.
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