my own spreadsheet server

[goodcooper]

you know google docs and editgrid?

basically i want to set up on a webserver, an open sauce app that can do the same things... i want control over it

this way 25 or so machines in that particular office (or ALL the offices if i put it on the internets) can edit excel sheets using thier browser... and i don't have to buy 300 dollar software for each of them to edit a friggin sheet...

and i've not been approved to install openoffice, so don't ask (they are scared of it, and this is a giant corporation, so don't try to give me pointers on how to make them budge)

and being the giant corporation, they are retarded, because they make the people edit .xls sheets without excel, and then when the people complain because they can't, they send them over to the company software store to buy excel for themselves... we're talking upwards of 500 machines in 22 offices

it really is quite rediculous

anybody have any experience with those remote/virtual linux desktops and stuff?

 

[spacekeeter]

Setting up your own internal "google docs" type web apps would be awesome and I'd definitely been interested on any options. *Bump*

 

[Jgedeon]

A couple of things you might be interested in.

OpenOffice.org on a thumb drive:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableoo

OpenOffice.org SAAS (Software As A Service)
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS8962292831.html

I'm not sure, but if OpenOffice.org can be ran from a thumb drive then why couldn't be ran off a mapped drive folder? Might be worth checking out.