On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:05PM +0530, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > This is going to be perhaps a controversial (or not) request. So > please take couple of deep breaths, have your favorite cup of coffee, > put the AC or whatever puts you at ease. My use-case is desktop users > rather than anybody else.
OK. But... what part of Ubuntu One are you talking about? I can't deduce it from the rest of your email. Nevertheless, I'm answering what I can... > Existing scenario :- > > 1. As of right now, the only competitor per-se is usage of google > gears rather than anything else. http://tools.google.com/gears/ and of > localstorage http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/localstorage/ which are > of browser-based solutions. (but then the data remains on PC as well > as the cloud and I/O as in bandwidth is saved.) if you're talking about the cloud-sync'ed storage, there are many other competitors; the owner of the space seems to be dropbox, but there are lots of others. If you're talking about something else...? I don't know where gears comes into it. > 2. The other kind of solution which exists are something like > http://docs.google.com/ and www.zoho.com which are again manual upload > file-sharing and backup online solutions. and here you lost me completely :-( > 3. The other competitor is of course windows skydrive or whatever its > called (which I haven't really checked out). here you seem to be talking about the storage, again. > 4. The use-case is specifically with desktop users its much more > easier to get them acquainted with the windows version of FOSS > applications, get their usage of these applications happening and then > slowly migrate them towards GNU/Linux. If they are already aware and > using FOSS applications then the migration is relatively pain-free. > (or atleast that has been my humble experience so far.) and here you lost me again. > 5. It would be great if ubuntuone would be open for FOSS applications > file backup, syncing etc. on the windows platform too . It should give > bigger visibility to Ubuntu in MS-Windows world which doesn't know any > other service provider other than MS and Google. the Ubuntu One storage protocol and client are both Free Software; a lot of the other parts of Ubuntu One are built on or around CouchDB which is also Free Software, and most (if not all... I don' thave the whole hawg in my head right now) are Free Software as well. > I do have some more ideas but please lemme know what you think ? > Feedback and constructive criticism encouraged. Thank you for sharing. But please try to introduce and contextualize your ideas, otherwise it makes it too hard for the rest of us :) Cheers,
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