RAMALLAH, PALESTINE and JERUSALEM and SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - September 5, 2007) -
G.ho.st™ (the Global Hosted Operating SysTem), a leading Web operating
system, and ThinkFree™, a leading provider of on-premise and on-demand
office applications, today announced the live integration of their
services, providing free office suite viewing functionality for users of
the G.ho.st Virtual Computer (VC).
"We're seeing a major market trend toward allowing people to work within
the same user interface to view documents, XML syndication (e.g., Atom and
RSS) feeds, and favorite Web sites from any remote computer," commented
Peter O'Kelly, research director for Burton Group's Collaboration and
Content Strategies service. "Having the applications and files you need
accessible from any location means never again, for example, facing the
prospect of forgetting to download the latest version of the sales
presentation you need to deliver to a client that day. G.ho.st and
ThinkFree are working together to exploit this trend, and to take the
Software-as-a-Service model to the next level: eliminating the need for
pre-installed software on your desktop."
G.ho.st users can view Microsoft Office-compatible files (including Word,
Excel and PowerPoint format files) directly from their free 3 GB of G.ho.st
storage. Integrating ThinkFree's document viewers allows users to simply
right-click the documents on the G.ho.st desktop and select "View." Using
online services eliminates the need to install expensive software. In a
future release, the companies plan to implement forthcoming APIs from
ThinkFree that will allow full authoring and editing of office documents
using ThinkFree applications within the G.ho.st environment.
"G.ho.st and ThinkFree share the vision of taking the entire computing
environment online. We are delighted to elevate the G.ho.st Virtual
Computer to the next level with seamless online viewing of office documents
using ThinkFree," said Dr. Zvi Schreiber, founder and CEO of G.ho.st.
"Our objective in extending our services is to partner with the best and
the brightest," stated ThinkFree founder and CEO, TJ Kang. "We want to
focus on building the best online office suite out there. By partnering
with G.ho.st, we can extend our functionality while concentrating on our
core mission."
About G.ho.st
G.ho.st (the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, pronounced ghost) provides a
free and complete Virtual Computer (VC) service, including personal
desktop, files and apps, available from any browser. G.ho.st is the world's
first and only true open Web Operating System (Web OS), working seamlessly
with leading third-party Web applications. The G.ho.st VC delivers a mature
computing environment to every person, which is free of charge, available
everywhere and admin-free. The G.ho.st VC service is available at
http://g.ho.st/ and G.ho.st's home page is at http://g.ho.st/home. For
further information, please call (+1) 347 MY GHOST.
About ThinkFree
ThinkFree, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is a leading developer
of platform-independent office productivity solutions. ThinkFree built the
award winning office suite in a flexible architecture for deployment either
hosted on a local server or company intranet, available over the internet,
or installed on a desktop or portable device. Majority owned by Haansoft
Inc., a publicly held company on the Korean KOSDAQ stock market,
ThinkFree's mission is to offer market-leading software solutions that
leverage the power of the Internet and provide users with a consistent,
unified and productive experience regardless of computing platform. For
more information, please contact ThinkFree at +1 (408) 432-5074, or go to
www.ThinkFree.com.
