On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:49:53 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> You're missing an important point here. Much and many of these services can
> be run locally. In fact, Google gives appliances that run Google Web-based
> software without ever getting in touch with Google. The argument made by
> Erik is the most commmon form of FUD that you see around the Web. It is
> spewed out by every company whose desktop software comes under fire by SOA.
First, google's "appliances" are only search services, and then they'r
ridiculously expensive. $30,000 for 500,000 searchable documents? that's
nuts.
Second, Google is not offering Google docs and spreadsheets or any of their
other services on appliances.
Third, Even if they did, it pretty much cancels out the benefits of what
google's services offer. The whole point of these services is that they're
hosted outside your company. If you're going to host them internally,
there's no difference between that and running the applications themselves.
Further, internal web based applications have been around for over a
decade. Microsoft has them (Sharepoint, CRM, etc..), IBM has had them
(they had a web based office suite 10 *YEARS* ago).
People are only going to be willing to put up with the reduced
functionality of a web based office suite if there's some benefit in it to
them, which google offers to some people.
By the way, you might want to check your terminology. Web apps are not
SOA.
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