![]() ![]() And the functionality, again for what I do, is plenty - I'm just sharing lists of ideas with colleagues and clients 95% of the time. For what I do, it's actually a great asset - it sure beats the hell out of emailing a document back and forward a dozen times over the space of ten minutes. Granted, not a whole lot of people need that kind of functionality most of the time. Google Docs/Spreadsheets, on the other hand, allows multiple users to edit the same document in real time and have each other's changes pushed to all other editors as they're being made, much more along the lines of SubEthaEngine. What we have at work has a check-in/check-out system, and DropBox would probably just give one user a read-only copy (since it treats it more like a network drive than an ftp server, and that's what happens on a local network). However, none of those to my knowledge deal with what happens when two people want to work on the same document at the same time. DropBox is one of those newer Web2.0 things that's basically a fancy wrapper around FTP (once again, we're starting to realize that user interface and ease of use is key to adoption) it's only meant for one user at a time and is more of a personal cross-computer document syncing tool. Hell, truly dumb it down and just have an FTP server. Setting up centralized documents on the cheap is quite possible these days - I work for a company that sells that kind of thing, but for all intents and purposes it's an interface wrapped around a glorified subversion repository with some unrelated features that deal with the rest of that whole intranet thing. However, remote access doesn't offer the realtime multi-user collaboration that's a part of Google's online office tools. but isn't that where FLOSS shines? I'd rather see this over another half baked AJAX app.įor the most part I agree with you. ![]() Openoffice org google docs license#It costs a bundle to license though and I don't know if it supports linux. If you want web based document access I think we should be striving for remote desktop hosting and application publishing.Ĭitrix already has this, and if you've ever used MSOffice as a published Citrix web application, you'll know what I'm talking about. Personally though, I don't know why anyone would even BOTHER with google docs. You mean by making google docs a real application instead of a gimped web based browser hosted mess? Why re-invent the wheel? Just enhance oo.o to store docs to google's servers and call it a day. Performance? Even if you thought OO.o was slow, you'll be amazed at how badly you can bog things down if you implement it in mighty javascript, inside a browser.Īnd why would Google use OpenOffice to fill that gap when they could just improve Google Docs? Working reliably with large documents, with embedded images etc? Not running in a browser on AJAX, the stupidest application 'platform' ever congealed? What does OpenOffice offer the average user that Google Docs is lacking? ![]()
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