LES COLEMAN wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>   Thanks for replying.
>   Please forgive my naiveity.
>   I'm not an I.T. person.
>   I've been asked (told) to conduct a study into valid alternatives to the 
> Microsoft Office.
>   One idea that came up in the boardroom conversation was to create a VPN, 
> load the Microsoft replacement (OpenOffice) on the host server, thus 
> requiring a single version of the software, and then access via web-browsers 
> (IE or Firefox) using either public or private lines. Nothing would actually 
> be installed at the workstation end.
>   Are you aware of OpenOffice being used in this way?
>   Regards,
>   Les.
>
>   
You can probably do that with VNC, which can then be accessed with any
Java enabled browser.  However, I've never used VNC with just a single
app.  Normally, I can access the entire desktop.


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