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Along with the announcement of Eric Schmidt in Web 2.0 Expo, Google has acquired Tonic Systems, a San Francisco and Melbourne-based company that specializes in Java based presentation creation and document conversion. It is not one of web based officeware software such as Writely, Zoho and Zimbra. Tonic has offered free PowerPoint viewer and PPT conversion tool made by Java technology. There is a few informations about Tonic Systems because Google shut down its homepage after announcement. It seems that Chris Nokleberg is a core member of Tonic system. His blog has explained Tonic's technology since first product release in ...

Thinkfree made a strategic partnership with Naver on September 28th. 2006. As you know, Thinkfree is famous web office service providers against Microsoft Office in US. Its service has focused on Java-applet based web office to substitute MS Office, but it turns to offer Ajax-based lightweight functions in this year. So Thinkfree starts to have a strong competitive against Google Writely and Spreadsheet as well MS Office Live. A vulnerable point of Thinkfree don't have heavy users to use their officeware. But, Naver extends a helping hand to Thinkfree to make a partnership with HaanSoft, an owner of Thinkfree and ...