Web office - 10/11/05 01:42 AM
Anyone heard of this? The idea is everything office can do as a web app. Now at first it sounds crazy. But I have been thinking about it. We have all seen rich text editors now on the net. Hell if you have gmail you have seen it. Excel or a spead sheet can be done with tables and some ajax mixed with some DHTML. PDFs can be created on the fly. For presentations or Power point you can create swf's and images on the fly with PHP. Access you have a variety of databases to choose from. Visio can be done with vector graphics/swf. Outlook can be replaced with any number of apps or just web based mail.
Looking at it... One could stand to make some bucks off this. Just think. $399 for office X vs $5 per month from http://you_company.myoffice.com
The person running this would need an [censored] load of storage as I see it taking off in a big way. You could allways I guess have users store documents localy, but that takes away from one of the benifits. Store and access anywhere.
Maybe,
$5 x hrs access to office products store loacaly
$15.95 x hrs access and x mb storage on server
$25.95 unlimited hrs and X mb storage on server
$35.95 unlimited hrs and X gb storage on server
$55.95 unlimited hrs and xxgb storage on server
$99.95 unlimited access and 1 tb storage on server
Thoughts?
Looking at it... One could stand to make some bucks off this. Just think. $399 for office X vs $5 per month from http://you_company.myoffice.com
The person running this would need an [censored] load of storage as I see it taking off in a big way. You could allways I guess have users store documents localy, but that takes away from one of the benifits. Store and access anywhere.
Maybe,
$5 x hrs access to office products store loacaly
$15.95 x hrs access and x mb storage on server
$25.95 unlimited hrs and X mb storage on server
$35.95 unlimited hrs and X gb storage on server
$55.95 unlimited hrs and xxgb storage on server
$99.95 unlimited access and 1 tb storage on server
Thoughts?