http://ictchampion.lasa.org.uk/2007/02/clickon-open-source-in-the-voluntary-sector/ Championing ICT in London's voluntary and community sector Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://ictchampion.lasa.org.uk/2007/02/clickon-open-source-in-the-voluntary-sector/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Andy Loughran Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:12:55 +0000 http://www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion/2007/02/23/clickon-open-source-in-the-voluntary-sector/#comment-25 Miles, I came across this page after reading a documet about the Great Web Office Experiment. I thought it was a good article and very accurate, however, I thought that your final conclusion. I agree wholeheartedly that internet bandwidth is not yet ready for web-based office work, but I believe that you overlooked the advantages of running many of the facilities on an internal office server. Licensing costs can be reduced, and instead of having to solve problems with individual installations, administrators/circuit riders only have to administer the server to fix problems; other PCs in the organisation will essentially be dumb terminals/thin-clients. This should have the result of dramatically reducing electricity costs too. My oversight (I'm sure to have some) may be that there are as yet few solutions similar in capability to zoho for document/presentation/spreadsheet usage that are available for personal server installation. Email, calendaring, addressbooks, bookmarks, file servers, photo galleries are available, in more than adequate office server incarnations. Miles,
I came across this page after reading a documet about the Great Web Office Experiment.
I thought it was a good article and very accurate, however, I thought that your final conclusion. I agree wholeheartedly that internet bandwidth is not yet ready for web-based office work, but I believe that you overlooked the advantages of running many of the facilities on an internal office server. Licensing costs can be reduced, and instead of having to solve problems with individual installations, administrators/circuit riders only have to administer the server to fix problems; other PCs in the organisation will essentially be dumb terminals/thin-clients.
This should have the result of dramatically reducing electricity costs too.
My oversight (I’m sure to have some) may be that there are as yet few solutions similar in capability to zoho for document/presentation/spreadsheet usage that are available for personal server installation. Email, calendaring, addressbooks, bookmarks, file servers, photo galleries are available, in more than adequate office server incarnations.

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