There is absolutely a big market for this. That is what 37signals and Google, among others, are proving with their web apps.
The benefits of web office apps are many and great. I do not intend to discuss them here, since it is too long a topic. For instance, the same site links to a very interesting article on the subject.
What is holding this evolution of the systems right now are the genuine security and confidentiality concerns from managers and sysadmins. As many stated, most companies will not trust their data to servers that leave a minimum possibility for security breaches. That is what makes Google Apps (and the likes) not a viable option for many.
I do not yet clearly understand the goals of this project, but I hope they intend to make the resulting applications open source, and easy to install.
One project with that goal in mind is OpenGoo, with which I am involved. What the project intends is to form a community from existing open source project members to leverage their work in the pursuit of this ambitious goal that we believe can not be achieved by one single OS project alone.
Please contact me if you want to get involved or have any ideas or suggestions for the project.
Since its first beta TB 2.0 has been pretty bug-less from a user point of view. This is a very strong piece of software.
The calendaring has gotten better too. That used to be the main complaint for the "Not an Outlook replacement" crowd.
Mozilla is going to score high with this one.
How about going to OpenSourceCMS.com and do a little research on which CMS fits better? That should take about 3 to 8 hours (depending on your level of geekness).
There are demos for each system on-line, so you don't even have to install them. Prepare, and show them a demo of the system you chose. Another 3 to 8 hours.
If they weren't impressed, but you are 100% certain it was because of lack of customization, download, install, customize, and do the last demo. That should take 1 to 3 days.
If management is not impressed after that, give it up.
How else could this companies charge for a service that is all intrinsically the same? It is all wireless digital data transfer. It is hard to imagine a different option. Some won't sniff your data, and those are going to be the winners.
Because 'Must have' is great link baiting.
I found most of the extensions interesting, but not all suitable for me. Most people will probably just use the best subset fitting for them.
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With every commenter... Never going to happen!
Or is everybody with a home PC going to acquire sysadmin knowledge? Server Backup? Power Backup?
There is absolutely a big market for this. That is what 37signals and Google, among others, are proving with their web apps.
The benefits of web office apps are many and great. I do not intend to discuss them here, since it is too long a topic. For instance, the same site links to a very interesting article on the subject.
What is holding this evolution of the systems right now are the genuine security and confidentiality concerns from managers and sysadmins. As many stated, most companies will not trust their data to servers that leave a minimum possibility for security breaches. That is what makes Google Apps (and the likes) not a viable option for many.
I do not yet clearly understand the goals of this project, but I hope they intend to make the resulting applications open source, and easy to install.
One project with that goal in mind is OpenGoo, with which I am involved. What the project intends is to form a community from existing open source project members to leverage their work in the pursuit of this ambitious goal that we believe can not be achieved by one single OS project alone.
Please contact me if you want to get involved or have any ideas or suggestions for the project.
Hahaha. Absolutely right! And imagine Linux inside!
On the serious hand, there are lots of signs that Dell is going to offer Linux 'for real'.
Recent news about Michael Dell using Ubuntu and comments from Mark Shuttleworth - that I cannot remember where I saw - are some hints.
It is an addon derived from Sunbird called Lightning
Here is great how-to for syncing between Thunderbird an Gmail.
Since its first beta TB 2.0 has been pretty bug-less from a user point of view. This is a very strong piece of software. The calendaring has gotten better too. That used to be the main complaint for the "Not an Outlook replacement" crowd. Mozilla is going to score high with this one.
here we go again... poor slashdot servers.
I read the whole article and fail to see how this is bowing to the EU. Could some slashdoter enlighten me please?
How about going to OpenSourceCMS.com and do a little research on which CMS fits better? That should take about 3 to 8 hours (depending on your level of geekness). There are demos for each system on-line, so you don't even have to install them. Prepare, and show them a demo of the system you chose. Another 3 to 8 hours. If they weren't impressed, but you are 100% certain it was because of lack of customization, download, install, customize, and do the last demo. That should take 1 to 3 days. If management is not impressed after that, give it up.
How else could this companies charge for a service that is all intrinsically the same? It is all wireless digital data transfer. It is hard to imagine a different option. Some won't sniff your data, and those are going to be the winners.
I didn't know YouTube was a lucrative business!
Because 'Must have' is great link baiting. I found most of the extensions interesting, but not all suitable for me. Most people will probably just use the best subset fitting for them.
Things like the Open Solutions Alliance still make OSS quite exciting. Going big is the new cool challenge.
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