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    OpenOffice on Ulteo in Pictures

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    Jason Brooks
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    December 13, 2007
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      Today my colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is reporting on Mandriva founder Gael Duval’s Ulteo, which now offers online access to the OpenOffice.org productivity suite:

      “OpenOffice.org goes online with SAAS version“

      I’m an OpenOffice.org user and overall fan of software as a service–particularly when it’s a free service–so I thought I’d take Ulteo for a spin.

      It took me a few tries to access OpenOffice.org on Ulteo, and when I finally made it in, I received this somewhat disconcerting message. Apparently, my previous failed attempts left some loose ends in my Ulteo hosted home directory.

      ulteo.png

      I forged ahead, broke the lock held by the phantom user, and I was staring down the barrel of Calc. Time to spend some time with my fantasy basketball spreadsheet, in all of its unsupported-by-google-apps functions glory.

      ulteo0.png

      Trouble was, I could tell how to upload my spreadsheet to Ulteo. The grayed-out box seemed to be the source of the trouble. A Java applet that failed to load, perhaps?

      ulteo1.png

      I consulted Ulteo’s search for help, but there were zero non-advertisement results for the term “upload documents.”

      ulteo2.png

      I read in SJVN’s story that I needed the “real” Java runtime from Sun to use Ulteo. As far as I could tell, that’s what I was using …

      ulteo4.png

      Have you tried Ulteo’s OpenOffice? Did you fare any better than I did?

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      As Editor in Chief of eWEEK Labs, Jason Brooks manages the Labs team and is responsible for eWEEK's print edition. Brooks joined eWEEK in 1999, and has covered wireless networking, office productivity suites, mobile devices, Windows, virtualization, and desktops and notebooks. Jason's coverage is currently focused on Linux and Unix operating systems, open-source software and licensing, cloud computing and Software as a Service. Follow Jason on Twitter at jasonbrooks, or reach him by email at [email protected]

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