[snip] > > Bleah, I say, and bleah again! I will bet anyone ten thousand > quatloos that online applications, let alone online operating > systems will never be the future of computing, the fond hopes > of Google, and Microsoft notwithstanding.
you use twiki for project and event management. others i know use customer-relationship-managment (CRM) software. if the web had not been invented, you would have problably used twiki or web-based CRM as software on each user's machines, passing data around on floppies. but i fail to understand why we don't see that just because it's on the web. it is still a software. i should know, since way back in 1995 i wrote a small application for a client that in principle did what a CRM does today. with today's sensibilities, if i had made it as a pure desktop-app, i would have mulled over GPL or proprietary, whereas you say if i had hosted it on the web, it wouldn't matter? nice loophole. >If MSVista was slow > on the desktop, why do you think people would pay for more of > a hit over the network? Vista is a desktop OS. the idea of an os over the web has always sounded silly to me. after all, the web runs over multiple OSes hosting web-servers and apps in the first place. so why add another layer of an OS on top? adding collaborative, web-based apps that do more than desktop apps sounds more interesting. >If you ask me, the race for dominance > is in embedded devices, mobile phones, and in looking beyond > just software. Behold the beauty of my brick-text non-pareil. sure, that is a valid point. embedded devices is where the hottest opportunity of growth exists today. that's another segment. some embedded devices may run web-apps too. so we're back to software again, and the importance of the license, and our rights, privileges, and unrestricted access to your own data. > Regards, > Gora regards niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
