http://www.menori.com/2006/06/24/the-scion-the-lich-and-the-wardrobe/ ...for all things different Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:13:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.menori.com/2006/06/24/the-scion-the-lich-and-the-wardrobe/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Menori » Blog Archive » Office productivity suites evolve Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:50:33 +0000 http://www.menori.com/2006/06/24/the-scion-the-lich-and-the-wardrobe/#comment-391 [...] Offering applications that work in an online and offline capacity is essential and is the natural evolution of office productivity applications. The excellent Read/Write Web has recently covered this area in it’s article “Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe“. In the article John Milan explains that it’s not enough for applications to exists exclusively on the desktop or exclusively on the Web. They must be hybrid applications. Some the follow up comments pose interesting parallels with concepts that have gone before. One person comments that this is merely client / server. My own comment highlights what I think about this area in so far as to say that tools such as Lotus Domino were aiming to cover this space for the corporate marketplace many moons ago. And when you track the evolution of one person instrumental in that vision and it’s technology, Ray Ozzie, you quickly spot who has the potential to do very well in this area. Ray Ozzie is now Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, he joined through the acquisition of his company Groove Networks who produced a collaboration tool that operates both online and offline. A previous post of mine captured some of my ideas of what I think the departure of Gates as head of Microsoft’s software direction and the introduction of Ozzie might elude to. Software as a Service, being the supposed future of application delivery, still needs an interface. As Milan’s article goes on to say: Who will the winners be? To borrow a catchphrase, “Just follow the data.” The key for success will be how easily data can be identified, distributed and synchronized. Soon enough it will be immaterial where your event or task originated. Instead, what will matter is that your data being everywhere and in sync. [...] [...] Offering applications that work in an online and offline capacity is essential and is the natural evolution of office productivity applications. The excellent Read/Write Web has recently covered this area in it’s article “Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe“. In the article John Milan explains that it’s not enough for applications to exists exclusively on the desktop or exclusively on the Web. They must be hybrid applications. Some the follow up comments pose interesting parallels with concepts that have gone before. One person comments that this is merely client / server. My own comment highlights what I think about this area in so far as to say that tools such as Lotus Domino were aiming to cover this space for the corporate marketplace many moons ago. And when you track the evolution of one person instrumental in that vision and it’s technology, Ray Ozzie, you quickly spot who has the potential to do very well in this area. Ray Ozzie is now Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, he joined through the acquisition of his company Groove Networks who produced a collaboration tool that operates both online and offline. A previous post of mine captured some of my ideas of what I think the departure of Gates as head of Microsoft’s software direction and the introduction of Ozzie might elude to. Software as a Service, being the supposed future of application delivery, still needs an interface. As Milan’s article goes on to say: Who will the winners be? To borrow a catchphrase, “Just follow the data.” The key for success will be how easily data can be identified, distributed and synchronized. Soon enough it will be immaterial where your event or task originated. Instead, what will matter is that your data being everywhere and in sync. [...]

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