Forbes Reviews AJAX Apps for Small Businesses

prostoalex writes "Forbes magazine evaluates the variety of AJAX-powered Internet-based applications and their suitability for small businesses. The office suite replacements Forbes magazine chose are Google-centric: Google Calendar, Spreadsheets, Notebook and Gmail are the winners of their respective categories. Pageflakes and YouOS are tied for the leader's spot in 'Webtops' category."

Zimbra or Roundcube?

[Anonymous Coward]

What, no mention of Zimbra or Roundcube (although that's beta)? At least those can be run locally.

Re:Thanks, Forbes

[nursegirl]

Forbes looked at such a small number of Ajax apps and put them into arbitrary categories. Google Notebook vs Backpack is apples and oranges. Yes, they're both ways of storing "stuff" perhaps even "information." But, the type of information stored in Google Notebook (collect information and quotes from around the www and then save them with citations), is very different than the information stored in Backpack (ToDo lists, Calendar, SMS/Email reminders).

Why don't I write an article comparing my day planner with my filing cabinet, while we're at it?

I wonder why

[ClaraBow]

ThinkFree Office wasn't even mentioned?

That articles is a couple of weeks old

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is the original:

http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArti cle.jhtml?articleID=192203311&pgno=1 [informationweek.com]

and here is O'Reilly's columnist response:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/08/who_is_ the_leader_in_ajax_appl.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169& ATT=Google+is+not+the+leader+in+Ajax+applications [oreillynet.com]