ShareMethods Rolls Out webDAV Support, First Phase of Simple Ajax Mashup

ShareMethods rolled out support for webDAV, the worldwide standard for document authoring and versioning. webDAV is an open Internet standard for sharing documents across multiple applications and platforms (www.webdav.org) and it has been implemented and/or endorsed by Apple, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and many others. webDAV provides a dramatic new set of capabilities for ShareMethods including desktop integration (i.e., the ability to drag and drop files to/from the desktop to the on-demand document repository) and the first phase of support for Simple Ajax Mashup. ShareMethods is applying a time tested standard in dramatic new ways – supporting the abiity to more easily link together Office 2.0 document productivity applications while empowering users/customers immediately with the capability to work naturally with on-demand documents at the desktop level (on a Mac and PC too…). Much more will be said about the implications for this major new development, which transforms ShareMethods from an application into a platform and marks the beginning of the development of the online office ecosystem promised by the Simple Ajax Mashup specification. Stay tuned for more updates on these key topics.