I asked Abdulrazak to discuss the objectives of his company’s OpenOffice project and how the Office Suite market might be impacted.ĭIGITAL MARKETS: From an average person's point of view, an average consumer, how does he or she take advantage of the GravityZoo 'porting project' with ?ĪBDULRAZAK: When is ported to GravityZoo, as an average user I will be able to access a full featured office suite online. The latter ultimately resulting in a secure ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence environment. This allows both applications and information becoming totally OS and device independent. Applications run in the network and no longer limited to a server or a client computer. GravityZoo has a vision and views its work as a mission:įounded in 2006, GravityZoo might become the so dreaded paradigm shift in the Software industry, allowing a true Software as a Service revolution outside of the Browser. The GravityZoo vision is about the convergence of SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0. “Bringing OpenOffice to the Internet,” Mahdi Abdulrazak, Chief GravityZoo Evangelist, proclaimed to me. OK for the PC, perhaps, but what about the rising cloud? OK there too? Free, working, and functional, beats expensive, flawed and questionable every time.

Why would anyone even think of 'paying' for something like Google's (or even MS's) version of Office, when 'Open Office' is fully functional and does most of what either of the above does?I got MS Word included when I purchased this PC, but my next PC I'm building and will run Open Office. Hard to top? So suggests ZDNet commenter Hawk318: The community comes together at to develop, support, and promote the use of. is both a fully-featured office suite compatible with leading office products, and a virtual community working through 's numerous projects.

Open officeorg