[Charlug] posscon

[Dennis Clark]

I'll believe in SaaS has a chance in replacing the desktop OS ... once I see
affordable ubiquitous high-speed Internet connectivity.

By affordable I mean the same as or less than current standard cable
Internet service prices for connectivity on *all* my devices, fixed and
mobile.

By ubiquitous I mean better coverage than current mobile phone service
providers, and without me having to worry whether I am in a WiFi zone or a
4G zone or a WiMAX zone.

By high-speed mean at least 2 Mbps.

I know it will happen eventually, but I'm not holding my breath.

-- Dennis

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Bob Evans <bobevans19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> SaaS is being touted by Red Hat & Microsoft. IBM always favored it... I'm
> sure Oracle will join the fray now.
>
> When i hear from top Microsft folks that "Windows 7 is the end of their
> planned desktop deployment" I gotta think they are betting that part of
> their huge farm on SaaS.
>
> It fits well into Red Hat desktop, since they have such a strong server
> product to back it up.
>
> Who knows.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ryan Sawhill <ryan at openprofessionals.com=
>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Dennis Clark <boomfish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure we can all agree that the days of "money is not an issue" are
>>> over. My hope that this does not result in a blind adoption of open-sou=
rce
>>> simply as a cost-cutting measure without looking into the actual busine=
ss
>>> needs; unfortunately I'm already seeing signs that this might happen in=
 my
>>> own workplace.
>>>
>>
>> I'm a free software advocate, for sure, but I'm definitely wary of too
>> much of this happening--that's how people get burned, turned off from
>> something. Also, generally speaking, in principle, I'd much prefer to see
>> people moving TOWARD something, you know, for its merits; rather than AW=
AY
>> from something else. (Though it's easy to argue that in many cases both =
are
>> happening.)
>>
>> Also, back to Red Hat, specifically in regards to things you were saying
>> Bob:
>> I don't know why I didn't pipe up on this earlier, but as far as I see i=
t,
>> a HUGE part of what Red Hat provides to the world is training. I don't s=
ee
>> them as just a vendor. Sounds like you do--you didn't seem to take train=
ing
>> into account in your analysis of their value and longevity. So, I dunno..
>> just a thought to consider. *shrugs* While I love Red Hat and think they=
've
>> done wonderful things for linux & FS/open source, I recognize that, like=
 you
>> said, things could change. Who knows. :)
>>
>>
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