Google acquires another presentation company - Zenter

Google has acquired the assets of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations, as Google said. Currently, Google has a presentation feature in Gmail, and not for long time ago they acquired Tonic which is also a web-based presentation company. Is this the last piece to complete their web-based office application, Google Docs?

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It's seem that, the Zenter technology will be added to Tonic system. Said by Nick Gonzalez "Zenter was focusing on the front end of the application, as well as community/sharing features".

On GoogleBlog, they said:

You've heard us talk a lot about using the web to improve group collaboration and information sharing. These days, when you create a document -- whether it's a text document, a spreadsheet, or a presentation -- you usually want to share it, collect feedback, or communicate about it in some way. We on the Google Docs & Spreadsheets team focus on making this experience easier and more powerful for you. In particular, we're working to add presentation-sharing capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and we're excited about the addition of Zenter's technology and team to that effort.

So the web-based presentation will be added to Google Docs and available to public this summer. Hence, the Google Apps suite will have ability to present and share presentation files by end of this year through it - cos, the Google Apps suite included the Google Docs, and the presentation will be used as its component.

So far, Google Apps at this point is closest suite competitor Zoho. Both have plenty components of web-based office apps. IMO, Zoho web-based office does its jobs better than Google Docs, but none of them can compete with Microsoft Office at the moment.