[dba-Tech] Is Google docs gone?

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 6 22:12:27 CST 2013


Hi All:

Before Google decided to make its Docs package pay-as-you-go, the company
that owned it made the original source OSS. It was subsequently completely
rewritten.

So now you can still do collaborative notes with the Open Source version and
export the contents to a variety of formats. For viewing and testing you can
check out the demo at Mozilla called MoPad. It now runs on Node.js:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/

If you want to use this EtherPad application at your office, home or
share-it on the web, you can download it install it and run it across you
web sites/internally or externally and even run it in an iFrame on intranet
(internet) your web pages...and as you would expect it is fast...very very
fast.

http://etherpad.org/

It will also give you a good reason to have Node.js install on your Linux
server.

Aside: If you want to get started it will take a few steps to install but
nothing too challenging. If stumped, don't know where to start or just being
cautious during the installation, drop a post the DBA-Tech.  

Jim



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