We have the same problem as the topicstarter. We want to use the Google Visualization API in a application that's running on a computer that's not connected to the internet. Is it possible to use the Google Visualization API when you're not connected to the internet? As your story told, it's not possible.
But will it be possible in the future?? On Nov 4, 5:59 am, "The Viz (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Our TOS and Program Policy do not allow download of the client-side > API or the visualizations. You need to use the API as it was meant to > be used - over the cloud. > > We just released (today) the wire protocol to allow anyone to create > server-side implementations of data sources that connect to > Visualization compliant visualizations, charts, etc. However, you may > not download the visualizations onto your servers. > > You raise several concerns relating to SaaS, Google platforms and > Google Visualization API and I'll try to address these: > > Google believes in the web as the new computing platform. We believe > that SaaS can be provided reliably, efficiently, affordably and with > many added benefits to users, be they private or commercial / > businesses. By chance, I writing this today after having attended > Dreamforce - Salesforce.com's annual conference - this morning, where > thousands of commercial businesses (from SMBs to Fortune500 > companies), all basing critical components of their business on SaaS, > met and discussed how to further this model even more. This is not the > proper place to take this general discussion further - but you get my > point - the tools we provide are for the cloud. > > Google Platforms for SaaS are mature and continue to improve literally > on a daily basis. As you may know, this has become a significant > offering at Google and considerable resources are placed into making > these systems, services and APIs robust, scalable and dependable. > Recently, for example, the GMail team announced four-nines up-time for > GMail on Google Apps and Google provides SLAs for the premium version > of Google Apps. > > As for backward and "forward" compatibility - I can share with you > that we are working towards guaranteeing long-term support for all our > APIs. I cannot disclose details yet, but I can share with you that it > will be multi-year support. You can safely assume that our current > protocol version will be supported for a long time. > > You will certainly be able to continue using older versions of the > client for quite a while prior to upgrading to newer versions and you > do have to worry about us puling the plug on the API. We currently do > not support versioning for the visualizations themselves, but we will > place this as a feature request on our list and see if it makes sense. > > As for availability of Google's servers - I've commented on that > generally above. We have high availability, we are working to make it > even better and premium versions enjoy even higher availability. Most > companies' IT department's server availability is not as high as what > Google provides. In any case this is a strategic decision you have to > make, as did all the companies running on Salesforce. Amazon's > platform, Google's AppEngine, etc. > > On Nov 3, 3:42 pm, Ashwath Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bumping this again. Any answers to this? I'm faced with a similar > > situation.. > > > On Oct 2, 5:31 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the response, trollswagen. I understand that there's > > > nothing stopping me from being able todownloadthe source of the > > > entire API from a technical standpoint (though it may require a number > > > of changes if the URLs are not relative). Really, the question is > > > whether or not we are allowed to do it legally. They have not > > > released it under an open source license such as Mozilla, BSD, LGPL, > > > etc. The fact that they don't have the package available fordownload > > > (or a link to the CVS / SVN) concerns me. The license is somewhat > > > unclear, and I want to make sure that we are permitted to do it before > > > investing in development. > > > > Thanks again! > > > > Cheers, > > > Christopher --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
