General DSarathy | 17 Apr 2007 09:28 am
Web Apps can never be desktop replacement?
Over the past 2 weeks there has been many dicussions over the internet on - Web Apps can never be desktop replacement. In an attempt to answer Matt Hartley on this subject, Nadeem Shabir replied in his blog - VirtualChaos. I liked the way Nadeem had answered this.
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I think never is a long time  |
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| I can’t remember the last time I suffered from an internet outage that prevented me from getting on line for any significant amount of time. I certainly can’t remember any time I’ve tried to use one of Google’s applications to find that it was down or unavailable |
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| any organisation, worth its salt, that is serious about providing software as a service over the web has to consider the responsiveness of its software as a key metric in gauging the applications success |
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| I’m not convinced the average persons data would be more secure on their own PC |
The more interesting lines is the concluding one,
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| the reality around the viability of this transition from desktop to web is less about the technical issues but more the commercial ones |
It’s worth a full read.
DSarathy.
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