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Quote from 'There is nothing wrong with adding a list of content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia'. Therefore please link to internal articles where they exist. --> A collaborative editor allows simultaneous editing of the same document by different participants using different computers. Document editing as a research field has been in stagnation for twenty five years, however recently Ajax has enabled a new wave of innovation in this area. This field is closely related to Distributed Computing . Truly distributed applications are one of the holy grails of computing. HISTORY The first application to gain mainstream attention was SubEthaEdit . This is Mac based, and leverages the Mac Bonjour communications platform. SubEthaEdit won numerous awards. However the level of voluntary donations was insufficent to keep the application free, and the product has now become commercial. The Gobby collaborative editor aims to be very similar to SubEthaEdit and is cross platform and open source. The Web 2.0 phenomenon has caused an explosion of interest in browser based document editing tools. In particular Writely saw explosive user growth, and was rapidly snapped up by Google in March 2006. However Writely relies on polling (every half a minute of so), so is not really real time collaboration. The Synchroedit project is an open-source attempt to do genuine real time collaborative editing within a browser. The availability of Java on most computers in the form of Java Applet s combined with the growing availability and speed of Broadband internet access has enabled a more powerful range of collaborative editing tools, including Web Applications which enable collaborative video editing. FUTURE MARKETPLACE DIRECTION The mainstream press is beginning to debate whether Microsoft's stranglehold on the Office Software market can be broken. The current approach of Microsoft and IBM has been to bolt limited collaboration facilities on to their existing architectures. Although marketed as real time collaboration, the 'workspace' based approaches they are offered require either a document to be locked (so only one person can edit it at a time), or a 'reconciliation' process to take place, which is generally found by users to be unsatisfactory. Another approach is 'application sharing'. This is a form of remote PC access. However in this approach only one user at a time can 'drive' the application, so for everyone else it is application surrender, not sharing. There promises to be many exciting developments in this area, which this page aims to track. LIST OF CURRENT EDITORS ;Software that was designed for collaborative real-time editing of text:
;Web browser based collaborative real-time editing of documents: ;Other software that allows collaborative real-time editing:
;Software that is collaborative but not real time:
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