Why the Move to Web-based Apps? October 8th, 2007 by Maddog Over seven (correction: six) years ago, I was in the small city of Dumaguete in the central Philippines where I conducted a short seminar on Linux. The sessions were conducted in a small internet cafe and after the two-day activity, we put the PCs we had used back online at the cafe, forgetting that we had installed Red Hat 6.0 on them!
The cafe soon opened and I saw a pair of little schoolgirls, both around ten years old, walk up to a Linux box, and in less than a minute they were checking e-mail on Yahoo and surfing the Web. That incident illustrated two things. First, was that the GNOME interface was quite intuitive. Those girls most likely had no training in Linux whatsoever since, back then, hardly anyone in the Philippines outside of geek circles and the IT industry had heard of Linux. These kids probably didn't even know they were using Linux at all. Which brings me to the second point. As many have pointed out before, most users probably don't care about the underlying operating system. What they do care about, however, is that whatever they are using it simple, meets their needs, is reliable and secure, and doesn't keep them waiting. In other words, the system they are using -- whatever it may be -- has to work and work well. Read the full article at: http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?p=69 -- Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. -- Pope John Paul II --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternative Information and Opinion at http://www.phnix.net Advocacy blog: http://mamador.wordpress.com Personal website: http://mannyamador.multiply.com --[Pro-Life Philippines]-------------------[http://www.prolife.org.ph]-- _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
