Integrating Zoho Online Office Suite with Ubuntu [Ubuntu 10.04]
Ubuntu Mobile Developer, Jamie Bennett is working on a project that integrates the online Zoho office suite with Ubuntu, starting with Ubuntu Lucclass Lynx. Well the obvious question is, why another office suite when Ubuntu ships with OpenOffice.org Office Suite? Open Office is great but its just too heaver for systems with very low resources, so the “clouds” becomes a good walk-around, the intensive task is transferred to an online server.
Zoho was preferred to Google docs because its more practical, no accounts to create, no log-in, you just click to get started. This is what you get with Zoho Ubuntu desktop:
– Open, read, edit and save email document attachments.
– Open, read, edit and save local documents.
– Open, read, edit and save remote documents linked to with a url.
– Launch the required application, Writer, Show or Sheet (Word Processor, Presentations, Spreadsheets) which will present the user with an empty document of that type ready to edit.
How do you to get Zoho integration with Ubuntu 10.04; sudo apt-get install webservice-office-zoho
To install webservice-office-zoho on other Ubuntu versions grab the package HERE.
Now you can just create documents Zoho Webservice Word Processor, and save them in PDF or doc formats for example and drop-sync them with Ubuntu One (now has a Music Store) across your various Ubuntu PCs. You can’t click-to-edit your docs directly from Ubuntu One, download them and right-click to open with Zoho online.
Ubuntu’s new web office integration will have many more functions in Maverick Meerk, its still a work-in progress, but its usable. I’m loving it.
8:41 pm on April 19th, 2010
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5:13 am on April 20th, 2010
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2:22 am on April 21st, 2010
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2:58 am on April 21st, 2010
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3:11 am on April 21st, 2010
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7:53 am on April 21st, 2010
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9:34 am on April 21st, 2010
ubuntu Lucid Lynx integrates cloud apps further: Zoho online office suite will be available: http://bit.ly/aaOBZ2
11:00 am on April 21st, 2010
The beginning of the end of #OpenOffice on #Ubuntu http://ow.ly/1qvyWi
2:24 pm on April 21st, 2010
Zoho + Ubunto sounds pretty cool. Would love to also see G Docs integration // http://bit.ly/9iECyJ
3:43 pm on April 21st, 2010
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7:39 pm on April 21st, 2010
I would like to be kept informed of the progress on this project.
Thanks!
8:33 pm on April 21st, 2010
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10:38 pm on April 21st, 2010
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6:28 am on May 3rd, 2010
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3:39 am on May 5th, 2010
Trading out Open Office on Ubuntu to try out Zoho apps; even smaller footprint (but still keeping Word 2007!) http://bit.ly/9Ofvr0
11:53 am on May 18th, 2010
ZOHO has good ideas, but … sadly … their service is sloppy. I tried to use their remote assistance service for months – Since Ubuntu 9.10 without any success. They demand to provide crossplatform system service, but connecting is impossible. They promised for months to re-solve existing issues – nothing happened up to now.