Re: [tdf-discuss] Features enterprises will love to have in LibreOffice

Well said!

Being installed in India, I have seen first hand how un-wired people are
around here. So a plain desktop is still a must for the next little while.

Looking at the future, I am remembering the Web4All event at the WWW
conference. There was a constant focus on enabling the Web for mobile
phones.

Longer-term, I'm guessing that smartphones' prices will keep on going
down over the years, so that the average Indian will eventually be able
to have a mini-computer in their pockets. By then, everyone should have
enabled 3G services on their mobiles and the providers may even be
giving 3G-like speeds on their networks.
I'm guessing that Westerners will have 5G by then :)

Now, until we reach that point, I think LO should consider building
something that is very light to download. At one rupee per Mb, it can
add up very quickly. Maybe a Web-enabled option would make sense, but it
should be a very no-frills thing.

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On Wednesday 19 January 2011 04:45 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> At 11:48 19/01/2011, Jaime R. Garza wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I believe the best feature for the enterprise will be to port
> > LibreOffice to
> > HTML5, this could be also installed locally in the clients, needing
> > just a
> > browser to run.
> >
> > If LibreOffice doesn't go in direction WebBased, it will be soon
> > irrelevant
> > in the enterprise (...)
>
> "The enterprise" is not the only (potential) user of LibreOffice.
> There is a significant part of the world that does not want to or cannot
> depend on network connections for every type of work, e.g. because not
> everyone is on the Internet [1] or because they have their own reasons
> for not using "software as a service".
>
> [1] <http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm>,
> <http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe Strobbe
>
>
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:23, Olivier Hallot <
> > olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I have collected some features enteprises will love to have
> > implemented in
> > > LibreOffice and listed them in
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crazy_Ideas#Features_Enterprises_Will_Love_To_Have_Implemented
> >
> > > Some are quite easy to implement, other may require a longer time for
> > > development, but all are based on real demand from people that use
> > > LibreOffice in a enterprise production environment. That is,  they
> > are not
> > > crazy ideas at all. :-)
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > --
> > > Olivier Hallot
> > > Founder, Steering Commitee Member - The Document Foundation

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