Extentech and Standing Cloud Form Open Source Private Office Partnership

Extentech, an application management software company leveraging cloud technology, and Standing Cloud, which is committed to creating best docs editing and development platform, have announced their partnership.

Company officials claim this is the first and only open source private office in the cloud. Standing Cloud provides instant Sheetster deployment, basic application management and hosting.

Sheetster for Standing Cloud offers real-time editing and collaboration accessed from anywhere at anytime without installing any software.

Leveraging an Excel-like spreadsheet interface, users can upload and edit their spreadsheets, with support for advanced features like charts, data validations, and conditional formatting, as well as support for editing Excel 97 - 2010 files.

“From the first time I tried Standing Cloud I was blown away with the fact that someone with no skills beyond using a Web browser can login and within 5 minutes have a sophisticated cloud-based Web application online and at their fingertips,” said John McMahon, CEO, Extentech.

“As soon as I tried Standing Cloud I began working towards providing Sheetster on this compelling new platform. Now spreadsheet users and docs app developers are mere minutes away from dramatically lowering their barriers to entry -- the exclusive club of the virtual private cloud is now open to all,” McMahon added.

“We are eager to work with great application developers like Extentech who help tap the power of the cloud with its intuitive, business-ready spreadsheet solution,” said David J. Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud, in a statement.

Sheetster Server is an open source application server. It can easily be extended and embedded into other Web based and offline applications such as portals and reporting front-ends giving user's unlimited flexibility and control.

Recently, Standing Cloud announced that its application layer solution is available to customers of SoftLayer (News - Alert) through the SoftLayer Technology Partners Marketplace. With a few clicks, users can deploy, manage and develop Web applications with Standing Cloud’s application solution using SoftLayer’s on-demand cloud hosting platform.