Hotmail's Bhatia unveils MS Office-like application
Bangalore-based Instacoll, co-founded by Sabeer
Bhatia, Sumanth Raghavendra and Kaushal Cavale, today
launched an application called Live Documents, which
is a hybrid online-offline office suite of
applications with features similar to Microsoft Word,
Excel and PowerPoint.
In development for the last two years, the product is
truly a Made in India product, according to Sabeer
Bhatia, chairman, Instacoll.
I believe Live Documents does what Hotmail (which
Bhatia sold to Microsoft for a little over $400
million) did for e-mail, he said.
Sumanth Raghavendra, CEO, Instacoll, said, The launch
of Live Documents will fill all the gaps that
Microsoft has not been able to fill, especially in
the online category. With its software and services
approach, users can access this via a hosted model, on
premises servers or use a plug and play appliance.
Instacoll is doing a controlled release, but within
the next 2 to 3 weeks will make it available to
everyone across the globe. Individual users can access
this for free, till the company decides on the
pricing. However, the enterprise version will be
charged.
The company already has Aricent (earlier known an
Flextronics) as its first enterprise client. Almost
7,000 employees of Aricent will be using this
application.
The pricing will be minimal even for the enterprises.
As low as $50 for the full year or $10 per month.
Volumes can always bring down the price further,
said Bhatia. He pointed out that Live Documents will
allow companies to cut costs.
Using Rich Internet Application technologies such as
Flash and Flex, Live Documents allows a user to view
and edit documents with any common browser, on
any operating system, from anywhere.
The application also allows collaboration on real-time
basis. The company claims that almost 3,000 people can
collaborate together on a single document
on real-time basis.
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