Alexandro Colorado wrote:
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.
Just to inject a little related info, thin clients today are not
nessisarily the same as they were a few years ago. I remember when a
thin client was little more than a dumb terminal, but in those days a
hard drive was expensive, $200. US or more, today you can buy 80 Gigs
for less than $50. Also Samsung is now working on a hard drive where
most of the storage is done with flash memory and actual disk storage
mostly occurs only when you initiate a shut down sequence. this is for
laptops to lower power use. But the point is flash mem like in a USB
key can replace the function of a hard drive. So a thin client can
either have a hard disk because it is now cheap, or enough flash to
serve your needs. I have a 40 Gig HD in this machine, but only 10 Gig
is actually used, and I keep lots of junk, hours of music, Ks of photos
etc. so IMHO flash of 10 Gig or so should be ample.
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