Well said! Being installed in India, I have seen first hand how un-wired people are around here. So a plain desktop is still a must for the next little while.
Looking at the future, I am remembering the Web4All event at the WWW conference. There was a constant focus on enabling the Web for mobile phones. Longer-term, I'm guessing that smartphones' prices will keep on going down over the years, so that the average Indian will eventually be able to have a mini-computer in their pockets. By then, everyone should have enabled 3G services on their mobiles and the providers may even be giving 3G-like speeds on their networks. I'm guessing that Westerners will have 5G by then :) Now, until we reach that point, I think LO should consider building something that is very light to download. At one rupee per Mb, it can add up very quickly. Maybe a Web-enabled option would make sense, but it should be a very no-frills thing. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On Wednesday 19 January 2011 04:45 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: > > > At 11:48 19/01/2011, Jaime R. Garza wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I believe the best feature for the enterprise will be to port >> LibreOffice to >> HTML5, this could be also installed locally in the clients, needing >> just a >> browser to run. >> >> If LibreOffice doesn't go in direction WebBased, it will be soon >> irrelevant >> in the enterprise (...) > > "The enterprise" is not the only (potential) user of LibreOffice. > There is a significant part of the world that does not want to or cannot > depend on network connections for every type of work, e.g. because not > everyone is on the Internet [1] or because they have their own reasons > for not using "software as a service". > > [1] <http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm>, > <http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm> > > Best regards, > > Christophe Strobbe > > >> Cheers! >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:23, Olivier Hallot < >> olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: >> >> > Hi >> > I have collected some features enteprises will love to have >> implemented in >> > LibreOffice and listed them in >> > >> > >> > >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crazy_Ideas#Features_Enterprises_Will_Love_To_Have_Implemented >> >> > >> > Some are quite easy to implement, other may require a longer time for >> > development, but all are based on real demand from people that use >> > LibreOffice in a enterprise production environment. That is, they >> are not >> > crazy ideas at all. :-) >> > >> > Regards >> > -- >> > Olivier Hallot >> > Founder, Steering Commitee Member - The Document Foundation > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
