On 16 August 2010 07:02, Hal Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any setup (other than Ulteo) out there that lets me keep > OpenOffice on a server somewhere and run it from another computer, with the > files and fonts and so on stored on the same server the program is stored > on? I know OOo is not written in Java, but it has a close relationship with > Java. I know it's a long shot, but I was wondering if it could be run in a > Java applet or by using Java on the client system in some way. > > The less that needs to be installed or set up on the client system, the > better it would be. > > Does anyone know about anything like this? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Hal >
VNC (free at http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/index.html or non-free at http://www.realvnc.com/) will let you run anything on pretty much any Linux/Windows computer from pretty much any Linux/Windows computer. There are clinets & viewers for lots of "gadgets" like Palms, iTouch's etc. For Windows, the built-in Remote Desktop is not bad and there are RDP clients for things like iTouch. There's also a Portable Apps (Windows only) version of OpenOffice.org that lets OOo reside *entirley* on, for example, a thumb drive; no files at all are installed on the host machine. This is also free at www.portableapps.comwho also offer lots of other free software that can run in this way e.g. Thunderbird and Firefox. No, I have no connection to any of the above other than as a happy user. HTH -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
