Comment Re:IBM should study Chiapaint... (Score 1) 322
This isn't the same sort of web app as the old style. The apps will be available to people offline on laptops or handholds. Its more like extending the replication ideas from Notes to applications.
Its not a concept thats imediatly obvious unless you've used Notes quite a lot, but for all Note's faults the basic concept is pretty good.
Here's how I recon it'll work. Basically you have a online database of documents (emails, docs you and your team have been colaberating on etc), pretty similar to today's Notes. You can choose to access them directly off the server or create a local copy of the database for faster or offline access, then replicate once you're done to upload changes.
Now you'll also have a whole load of applications (probably java) alongside that you can use in the same way to edit and view the documents. Use them online (probably cached) or create a local copy for using offline. Then when you replicate all your documents you replicate your applications as well, getting any updates, uploading your settings to the servers so they'll be available wherever you are and so on.
Thats the way it looks to me anyway.
Its not a concept thats imediatly obvious unless you've used Notes quite a lot, but for all Note's faults the basic concept is pretty good.
Here's how I recon it'll work. Basically you have a online database of documents (emails, docs you and your team have been colaberating on etc), pretty similar to today's Notes. You can choose to access them directly off the server or create a local copy of the database for faster or offline access, then replicate once you're done to upload changes.
Now you'll also have a whole load of applications (probably java) alongside that you can use in the same way to edit and view the documents. Use them online (probably cached) or create a local copy for using offline. Then when you replicate all your documents you replicate your applications as well, getting any updates, uploading your settings to the servers so they'll be available wherever you are and so on.
Thats the way it looks to me anyway.
