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  1. Re:Go for it, Microsoft... by ScentCone · · Score: 1 · on MS To Launch Internet Versions of Office And Windows

    Why would anyone PAY for something they can't have? And what happens to those Word docs when your subscription runs out?

    The same thing that happens when thousands of businesses stop paying their subscriptions to salesforce.com or netledger.com. Totally web-based apps, with critical business data living behind the firewall at the service provider, is scarecely a new thing, and continues to ramp up - especially for mid-sized companies. It's a risk, but only to the extent that you don't have a provision for obtaining your data in some form before pulling the plug. No one who cares about their business would use MS's toys or Google's without a graceful way out.

  2. It's been done plenty. by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Google Declares War on Microsoft

    There was a time when contact management (or, in a more sophisticated form, CRM - customer relationship management) was a desktop app like Act or similar products. Enter SalesForce.com. You could say the same thing about what used to be the province of QuickBooks Pro, or lighter-weight implementations of accounting apps like Solomon or Great Plains, and look instead at NetLedger.com. These are complete migrations from desktop business apps to subscription-based web apps. Likewise with newer versions of tax prep software, etc. This is not new.

    That being said, I don't want to have to be internet-connected in order to work on a word processor document.

  3. Re:Some of the conclusions are dubious by Thanatopsis · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Microsoft PR: Looking Under The Hood

    Trust me. The PR firm wrote the quotes and then was going to run it by the executive. It's done ALL The Time. It saves time and allows your marketing partner to stay on message. I have had quotes presented to my by Netledger for a story appearing in the Wall Street Journal. I looked at the quotes and said, "Fine run with it." to the PR person. Netledger is an Oracle company.

  4. black death by r · · Score: 1 · on Games and the 'Geek Stereotype'

    I guess I have to scrap my 'Europe-during-the-black-plague-simulator."

    actually, there exists a board game called black death. it's a plague strategy game set in 15th-century europe.

    each player takes on a role of a different pathogen, with the goal of wiping out as much of the population as possible. but you have to be careful, because you mortality rate will work against your ability to propagate, and you may burn yourself out too quickly.

    morbid, but great fun. :)

  5. Two products that I swear by.... by stuckatwork · · Score: 3, Informative · on Cleaning Your Mice Wheels?

    ...are PhoneKleen found here, which are grem killing wipes, and are great for getting the black gunk of the keyboard and mouse exterior,

    ...and CaiKleen found here a rubber cleaner that restores that stickyness to rubber.

    When I had to do desktop support, I always carried these with me.

  6. Re:How about web-based services? by thrice · · Score: 1 · on Personal Finance Software for Unix?

    NetLedger supports Mozilla, Netscape and Galeon.

  7. Re:Largest Oracle implementation on Linux by big.ears · · Score: 2 · on Are There Large RDBMS Using Linux?

    I went to Netledger to check it out. After wading through a ton of cookies I noticed I cute little graph that shows the "Average ROI is 1700%". The funny part is that 40% of their customers aren't on the graph, meaning they have an ROI less than 100%, meaning, some might conclude, that a substantial proportion of their customers are being tricked into buying something that is hurting their bottom line. I guess that slipped by the marketing department.

    Not that I believe the graph that much, anyway.