Re: [SLUG] online office suites

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:00:11PM +0800, Jason Nicholls wrote:
> G'day All,
> 
> I bought the latest issue of APC magazine and there is an article on "Online
> Office Suites". Up until now I wasn't aware such a thing had been attempted
> yet but I was wrong!

Essentially the ASP business model. Been around for a while now. Works well
when you have fast network links.

> Since they all use a web browser as the app platform (using Java) they should
> all work under Linux. I took a look at the ThinkFree Office web site and they
> even have information for UNIX/Linux users. Quoting from the site:
>
> Has anybody tried this sort of thing out yet? I'm a little skeptical at
> keeping documents on some far and away server where I don't know anything
> about how secure it is...

Since I work for a .com (groan) and this is their model I hear this all 
the time. Not for the foreseeable future do I see a good reason to 
do this for "productivity" software. Stuff is coming out thats runs
natively on Linux which gives you the features you may crave.

Once there are more non-computing devices being used for the Internet
this kind of stuff will be huge. When this will happen is anyone's guess

> Of course, if you could implement your own server on a LAN then that'd be
> quite dandy.

Yep, all our customers say that too. Make it non-ASP and I'll buy 100 of 'em.

Cheers,
Anand


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