On Friday, January 18, 2013 15:21:01 Ian Lynch wrote:
> On 18 January 2013 13:18, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What we really need is a cloud version of AOO like Google Docs.
> >
> > We don´t *need* ONE thing. That´s the beauty of open source, ´we´
> > could do *several* things.
>
> Well yes, but it is more efficient to do one thing that covers many
> needs rather than try and do many things with not enough resource.
>
> > I for one don´t ´need´ an AJAX / HTML5 version of AOO... GDocs is fine...
>
> A lot of people would say yes but GDocs is not open source.
> Some people would say MS Office is fine and others would say Koffice.
> Question is whether or not we want a long term sustainable project for
> the community or one that will get more and more marginalised.
As a side note: While I am happy that KOffice is mentioned now and then on
this list, I think it would be proper to mention the Calligra Suite instead.
KOffice is not being developed any more while Calligra is running full speed
ahead.
-Inge
> > I personally think browser based apps are a pig, and doing apps in
> > JScript is insane. I had Chrome open the other day just with GMail and
> > it was using over 150 MB of RAM...
>
> Not really a big problem with modern multi-gig computers (including
> future mobile technologies). Less of a problem than stuff that only
> works on one device or needs a lot of effort to port across
> multi-devices, operating systems etc. To me open standards are worth
> paying a bit of a price for in terms of machine resources since the
> latter continue to grow and get less expensive.
>
> > A thin client virtualized version on the other hand would use the PC´s
> > CPU and horsepower and deliver great speed to even to lowest powered
> > devices.
>
> Assuming you have someone to host it for you. O a global scale that is
> not trivial to do which is probably why Google with all its resources
> does what it does.
>
> > But of course, that´s going in a different direction from the current
> > fad....
>
> Swimming against global trends is not a sensible idea when you have
> very limited resources and very little time.
>
> > FC
