Is it that hard to imagine a word processor that runs in a browser? (yea, formatting would be a bitch, but.....)
Well take for instance Applix Anyware, which is an fully working java-based office suite. It includes a spreadsheet application, wordprocessor, presentation software, and in effect runs from any java enabled webbrowser. And with Sun Microsystems pushing their java stations which are like the classical X-terminals in the sense that they do not require any harddisk, and have only their o.s. on rom , but are also intended to run locally java based programs in their browser, which are downloaded from a server. More and more applications are likely to appear written in java. With more programs being written in java, indeed the underlying os of your workstation can become irrelevant. Although personally I find the performance of java based programs still very much inferior to binaries compiled for my systems architecture, that may change.
Anyone remember these? Looks like the authors of this article missed the beautifull descriptions of the agony true sysadmins experience with (l)users. Read this and never trust your sysadmin again! The final collection of BOFH stories!
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Is it that hard to imagine a word processor that runs in a browser? (yea, formatting would be a bitch, but.....)
Well take for instance Applix Anyware, which is an fully working java-based office suite. It includes a spreadsheet application, wordprocessor, presentation software, and in effect runs from any java enabled webbrowser.
And with Sun Microsystems pushing their java stations which are like the classical X-terminals in the sense that they do not require any harddisk, and have only their o.s. on rom , but are also intended to run locally java based programs in their browser, which are downloaded from a server. More and more applications are likely to appear written in java.
With more programs being written in java, indeed the underlying os of your workstation can become irrelevant.
Although personally I find the performance of java based programs still very much inferior to binaries compiled for my systems architecture, that may change.
Anyone remember these?
Looks like the authors of this article missed the beautifull descriptions of the agony true sysadmins experience with (l)users.
Read this and never trust your sysadmin again!
The final collection of BOFH stories!