Tomas Nopp wrote:
Hi,
is there any plans or talk about making it possible to use OpenOffice
as an online tool? What I mean is that OO will reside on a server from
which you can run its applications by accessing them via internet.
Like this you don't need to install it on the machine you are using.
There are a number of reasons why this could be a useful feature like
traveling, mobility, space problems and so on...
Regards / Tomas
If you use Linux you can already do this - install OpenOffice on a
server, and then have Linux clients ssh into the server and run
OpenOffice, exporting the display to the client computer. I'm not sure
what the performance over the internet would be like, but on a LAN it
works fine ( I just tested this ). Over ADSL2 it should be fine also.
As for implementing other ways of doing this - it's not going to happen.
OpenOffice is a very complicated suite, and providing a rich GUI to a
client that doesn't have OpenOffice installed is just not feasible
without an existing framework for providing network transparency - as X
does under Linux. You are most certainly not going to have some Java
applet serving up an office suite. Developers have enough work on their
hands just getting 2.0 released without having to rewrite the entire GUI
to use Java widgets.
The 'space' argument for providing this functionality is also pretty
unusual. OpenOffice takes up 268 MB on my system. That's nothing - even
on laptops. If you want convience, buy yourself a USB memory stick, and
put an OpenOffice installer on it. Then you can install OpenOffice
wherever you go. Yay!
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