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the Free CMSWire NewsletterThis week, Microsoft finally gave the world a look at Office 365 in beta, Oracle pulls the plug on commercial ambitions for OpenOffice, Nuxeo adds a Google Search Appliance connector, Autonomy extends its reach in the health sector and there are two releases from AuraPortal and Visioneer.
Microsoft Office 365 Public Beta Begins
This week, after many months of waiting, Microsoft finally gave the world a look at a beta of Office 365, which is now available in 38 countries, and which will provide pricing schemes that will make it a viable option not just for enterprises, but for SMBs as well.
A cloud-based office suite, it comes with four principal components that should make office work easier and cheaper, as well as putting SharePoint within the reach of smaller enterprises. It also makes them accessible on just about anything that comes with a web browser, including smartphones.
Over the months, we have seen quite a number of vendors providing integrations for the new suite, but this week’s announcement also notes that the Office 365 MarketPlace is already open, and already offers access to apps from over 150 companies.
While we’ve already taken a quick look at it and some of its features, over the next week we will be looking at it in greater detail to tease out what you can, and, possibly, can’t do with it. Interested in more?
Nuxeo Adds Google Search Appliance
Nuxeo (news, site) this week has announced the availability of a connector that will enable the Google Search Appliance (GSA) index and search Nuxeo Document Management content, with the result that enterprises using GSA for enterprise search and Nuxeo for enterprise content management will be able to add Nuxeo Document Management to their list of data resources.
The result is that Nuxeo DM content will appear in the enterprise search results in the same interface as other data sources indexed by the GSA, giving users a unified enterprise search experience with diverse information.
The GSA Connector, to be deployed within Nuxeo DM, comes with:
- A Google Enterprise Connector Manager, so the Google Search Appliance can search and serve documents stored in the Nuxeo Content Repository
- A Google Search Appliance connector type for Nuxeo, to configure the connection and define the content to index
It's available on the Nuxeo Marketplace. Nuxeo Connect subscribers can download and install it in Nuxeo DM via the in-product Update Center. Non-Connect subscribers can sign up for a free trial.
Oracle Drops OpenOffice
Another announcement that has been in the air for a while was made this week, this time from Oracle (news, site), which said it will be giving up any commercial ambitions it had for OpenOffice and that it will be handing it back to the community.
Even so, Oracle has been a bit vague about its intentions, which poses the question as to whether OpenOffice is going to disappear, mutate into another project or join with LibreOffice. Interested in more on this?
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