I recently had a try of GoogleDoc, I started a job at home but had to finish it on my client's site.
At home I have a DSL connection, it averages 15Mbps down 2Mbps up, GoogleDoc was very acceptable performance wise. My client who lives 35Km (for the benefit of imperialists thats about 20m) from the nearest town, is connected to the 'net via a satellite link that runs at 512Kbps down/64Kps up - that is the only viable method of connection at that location. To all intensive purposes GoogleDoc did not work at that site. Fortunately I'd put a copy of the document on a portable disk that also carries portable OOo, firefox etc There are a lot of people on the planet who have no or slow connections to the net, especially in sparsely populated areas - which true for Australia, much of Asia (think central asia, eastern Russia - Kazakstan etc, not china and india), as well as much of Africa and South America. I've no doubt that online software will be used by those who dont venture beyond the suburbs but for those that do, and those that live out there I dont think it will. I agree with Greg to this extent, it would be good if OOo was online, but you'd still need an offline version to use when you've got no comms. If you travel on one of those superfast euro train, GSM phones barely work because of the frequency of cell switches - cant image a data circuit holding up under those conditions. On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:07:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thursday 10 April 2008 14:41:55 TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries wrote: >> Lisi, although I agree that there can be benefits to having certain >> software online, the idea that everything I ever write is even temporarily >> stored on someone else's system/server is utterly repugnant to me. > >You have clearly not read the correspondence! I am as repulsed by the idea as >you could be. It is Greg who is arrogant enough to think that only he knows >the future and only he has the necessary qualifications to do so and that >therefore the rest if us have no right to disagree with him!. > > > > This >> would mean a complete loss of privacy. This disadvantage more than offsets >> any >> "convenience" you mention. > >I did not mention any conveniences - it was Greg who did so. I have been >forcefully repudiating any such idea. > >Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
