[dba-Tech] Question on collaborative choices

Hi Max

This is what it is about:

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour2.html 

Note that saving documents is done continuously automatically. This is so clever that I wonder why so few use it. Tradition, I guess. Lack of features, some claim, but I think the features of these limited applications cover 95% of the average user's demand.

"The Cloud" here means that you have no idea of where your application nor your data physically reside, and you never will and you don't care. Actually, they are replicated to multiple locations.

But this is not MS Office. Documents can be read and exported as doc and xls files but that is not real time. It is great, however, for backup to your own premises. MS has announced a similar limited service for Office 10. I wonder if and how they will implement the real time editing.

/gustav


>>> max.wanadoo at gmail.com 23-10-2009 19:03 >>>
Susan, that is  how I felt about  "collaborative choices". I understand the
words, I don't  understand what is the meaning behind them.

Max


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: 23 October 2009 17:39
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Question on collaborative choices

Gustav, I get a couple dozen technology magazines every month and every one 
has a story or two on the cloud, every month! I don't get it either. I have 
still, yet, to actually read a story about actual users and benefits -- it's

all speculation, expectation... no users! I've stopped reading about it, at 
least for now.

Susan H.


> Hi Max
>
> Oh Max. It's not Susan that writes chit-chat but this hyped item that 
> calls for it. You know that.