2008/12/17 Ian Lynch <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: >> Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take >> care of that. > > That is like saying MS will take care of the desktop for us! > > At the moment there are bandwidth limitations but they will gradually > ease and those that go into the market early will dominate just as MS > has done at the desktop. We need to look further ahead if we are serious > about long term survival. > >> Still if we want to compete with that we can convert openoffice.org to >> web version. > > Question is how? Who will take responsibility for doing it? Sun has the > technology with Global Desktop to offer thin client access to anyone > through a standard web browser. Question is where the revenue can be > generated to fund the servers etc. MS will be doing it from advertising > like Google.
It may be that organisations will want to run their _own_ web based office suites. That would offer security, etc. A true FOSS web based office suite might well be rather popular. It would mean that others could offer a hosted service in competition with the big boys - in the same way that Web hosting, etc is offered. rgds, Richard Rothwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
