Ajaxian alerts us that Jotspot has partnered with Salesforce.com to produce a collaborative spreadsheet-like application.
Check out the inner popups, formulas, security selections, etc. This
really shows how you can build an application that looks like a desktop
app but also has the mashup ability shown off too.
In this case the Salesforce.com application provides the backend model for the collaborative spreadsheet application. It does more than just provide a spreadsheet, however. It includes task tracking and calendaring.
What are Jotspot’s plans for the application going forward? From the original article:
The salesforce.com/Tracker partnership is a good example of Jotspot’s
strategy to "embrace and extend Microsoft", which Jotspot CEO Joe Kraus
and I spoke about previously in my post in March.
With JotSpot Tracker integrated into salesforce.com, there is no need
to download Excel files to the desktop – because everything is
available on the Web via the Salesforce service. Which of course is one
of the steps towards a Web Office suite!
Embrace Microsoft? That had better be a massive bearhug. Good luck.
