As with most of their offerings, Apple has decided to be fashionably late to the world of online productivity._We are hearing reports that_Apple has opened up a pre-release web-based version of it's iWork software to multiple platforms.
Usually the discussion of productivity and cloud infrastructure revolves around a handful of heavy hitters, among the pile are Lotus Notes, AWS cloud services, Microsoft's Office, and Google with their Google Docs offerings._Historically Apple's_productivity and_cloud offerings_have been_met with ire from some_users, pleading defenses from fanatics and shrugs from the_enterprise, but when Apple makes a move, it's guaranteed to catch a few people's eyes.