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IBM To Announce Web-Based Desktop Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tried-before dept.

mgoulding writes "IBM is expected to announce a software bundle targeted to business users that will challenge the Microsoft Office package. Unlike Office, the email, word-processing, spreadsheet, and database products will be accessible to Linux, Unix, and heldheld users through a web server. NewsFeed posts the story from CNET." It's certainly something that's been tried before - witness sites like MyWebOS (no longer existing).

2 of 322 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Office.NET by Chemicalscum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't want Lonhorn on my desktop !

  2. What about network downtime? by Brobock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What if your network goes down for any reason. This could really harm productivity. I know when situations like this occur in my workplace we are still able to do what we must on our local machines.