On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:36:31 -0600, Daniel Carrera
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Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Thin Clients will greatly welcome an office suite.
Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin
clients at a primary school a while ago and they're running OOo.
Yes and is a pain to set-up, also is restricted to a LAN, a web app you
dont really care if its a thin client, fat client, mobile etc, you just
access the IP range. Similar to the way a groupware web app like Plone or
eGroupWare will work.
Also a web-centric office suite put much more push towards
intgretation,
Why? And why is that desirable?
Document automatization, centralized storage, better control of
autentication, better collaborative scheme. An example is when you switch
computers to edit a document on the LAN you asume other peoples identity
since authentication is installation base.
A log-in method assume authentication when you access let say, the
intranet. That makes it easier to track. Also a web based
intranet-extranet is more secure and mobile. If your laptop gets stolen
you can loose all that data.
live content, webservices, accesibility on different platforms, and
well all the things that so far blogs have done to on-line content.
Blogs are cool, but no company uses them for mission-critical content.
Google Office would be cool.
However many people struggle mantaining their office suites lack of
flexibility, they can't get any authomatization but through local scripts
(macros), the management of those macros is also a pain since you need to
verify which macros are secure.
But I doubt any company would accept the risks associated with having
your documents and software off the premises (e.g. if the internet goes
down your company is paralized).
I think you are thinking on a service like Writely, while I am talking
about a web app like EyeOS or PHP-Nuke where you can install on your
intranet and provide it for your company from your local server.
Once said that, I guess a combination of fat-client with web client could
also be an option. Outlook have that for years with exchange, where
Outlook works as the fat-feature rich client, and Exchange web-front end
as the web client, accesible from any machine.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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