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Joeffice
The birth of an office suite

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The current offices
MS Office Proprietary C++ Offline
Office Web Ap Proprietary (Free) JavaScript Online
Google Docs Proprietary (Free) JavaScript Online
LibreOffice LGPL (Free) C++ Offline
Joeffice Apache licence (Free) Java Offline & Online

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Why ?
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A lot of people are using office software and we deserve a
better software than the existing ones.
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Business needs an online pluggable, adaptable,
redistributable office suite.
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An office build by users for users.

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This Java Office - What will it be ?

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Concepts
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Clean code
– Education / small school projects
– Participation
– Customisation for companies
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Internationalization (i18n)
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Modularity / plug-ins (macros, templates, …)
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Re-use existing libraries and frameworks
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Compatible with Microsoft Office documents

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Goals
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> 10 documents opened (tabs, docking)
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Easily find files, options and features
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Adaptable for business needs
– online plug-ins, online updates
– modules

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1 person in 30 days ?
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Use existing libraries but do not extend or fix it
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Flexibility in features
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Alpha version
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Code !
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No unit tests
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This is not Microsoft Office

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JavaTM
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Works on Windows, Mac, Linux and soon ARM
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10 000 000 developers
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A great open source community
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Online and offline
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Interaction with other systems (JDBC, SOAP, LDAP, SAP, …)
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Unicode, BiDi support, Asian languages, Garbage Collector

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Apache license 2.0
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Deploy on unlimited computers for unlimited users during unlimited time
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No vendor lock-in
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Adapt it your way (no need to wait for a patch) and no requirement to share
the code
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Possibility to redistribute it even in a commercial product
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Benefit from the community improvements
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Widely used license

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Business / Enterprise
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Java : No need to hire C#, C++ or Visual Basic developer
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Apache licence : Adapt and redistribute even in a commercial
package
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Compatible with MS Office documents
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Using standard libraries
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Deploy online
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Online updates and plug-ins

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Joeffice online
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Exactly the same version as offline.
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Cloud not required : works with local files, shared network
drives.
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No cloud lock-in : works with Dropbox, GDrive, SkyDrive.
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Whatever you type remains local (privacy).
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Customize it (or not) and put it on the Intranet.

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One more thing
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Sign up for the launch and get a free lifetime online access to Joeffice
– http://joeffice.launchrock.com
– Limited to the coming 10 days