IBM SmartCloud Docs Enters The Market But Does It Still Matter?
Last month IBM released SmartCloud Docs (formerly called IBM Lotuslive Symphony) at a pricing competitive to other offerings in the market like Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365. It is free for existing SmartCloud Advanced customers and $3 per user per month for SmartCloud Standard customers. It is based on Apache OpenOffice and offers solid [...]
Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications: An Open Letter
Alright, there are a dozen office suites out there that sit in various places on one’s computer, in the cloud, can do X, Y, and Z and the list goes on. However, I don’t want to talk about any of those suites. I want to talk about the suite we all want, the suite that [...]
Why I Think Office 365 Is Not (Yet) Ready
Earlier this week I had a Tweetbate with few folks who have a soft corner for Microsoft products on whether Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s cloud based productivity suite, is a credible player in the modern cloud business applications space. When I say modern cloud business applications, I expect them to have, at least, [...]
IBM LotusLive Symphony: Google Needs To Watch Out
During IBM Lotusphere 2011 earlier this month, I had a chance to see the demo of IBM LotusLive Symphony and interact with the team behind Symphony. LotusLive Symphony is IBM’s new online office suite much along the lines of Google Docs, Zoho Office Suite or Microsoft’s Office Web Apps. Microsoft is a non-starter at this [...]
There Is No Way Microsoft Can Kill Google Or Zoho
When Microsoft announced the release of a lightweight web based Office suite along with Office 2010, pundits were busy calculating the hit it will have on Google’s marketshare in this space and, also, writing an obituary for companies like Zoho (disclaimer: Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is my independent opinion). I [...]
Thinkfree Releases Netbook Edition For All Major Operating Systems
Thinkfree is taking a multi-pronged approach to establish themselves as a credible alternative to Microsoft Office. They have an online edition, they have a desktop suite, they have an Android version, they have a MID version, they have a standard server edition, they even have an enterprise server edition with powerful collaboration features and they [...]
Adobe Releases Spreadsheet SaaS Application And Adds Premium Version
After pushing RIA strongly for sometime, Adobe decided to embraced SaaS format (in their own way though) and they released Adobe Buzzword after they acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind the Buzzword app. Buzzword is built on Flex framework and offered through a web browser. The release of Buzzword exposed the dilemma faced by Adobe [...]
