Competitors to Office Live: Are there other online Office suites?

Submitted by phil on Wed, 06/20/2007 - 19:01

Linux [1]
Microsoft [2]
Software [3]

Yes. Microsoft is not the only one with a version of productivity applications online.

So, who can compete with Office Live?

First and foremost: Google with its latest acquisition of Zenter, the online Presentation tool or the GooglePoint as referred to by Larry Dignan on this ZDNet blog post [4]. This adds yet another element to the Google Apps:

Second, but not least nor last, comes Zoho with an impressive evolving suite of applications:

Zoho also plans on integrating Google Gears in order to leverage these existing tools to make them available offline.

Others, as previously mentioned in other blog posts include Zimbra [5]and ThinkFree [6].

Check out this nice comparative chart of these online suites:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_office_suite_comparison.php [7]

Is Microsoft being threatened? It sure looks like it to me.

Links:
[1] http://linux.philosweb.com/drupal/category/it/software/software/os/linux
[2] http://linux.philosweb.com/drupal/category/it/software/software/os/microsoft
[3] http://linux.philosweb.com/drupal/category/it/software
[4] http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5433&tag=nl.e622
[5] http://www.zimbra.com/
[6] http://www.thinkfree.com//
[7] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_office_suite_comparison.php