Luke Newton (who has his own blog here) made a good comment about my earlier post. Luke mentioned how several companies are switching over to free or open source apps.

I personally considered something similar when I had to buy my new laptop. I was thinking of going all thin client - in other words, use only hosted applications. So I would use Y! Mail or something similar instead of Outlook; use Google Apps online instead of Word/Excel. Adobe plans to come out with an online version of their product. All my work would have been done through a IE or Firefox window. However I have taken a more prudent approach. I tried out Google Apps and found it quite lacking in functionality. And my biggest problem was always on Internet connection. I did not want to be left in a lurch if I was in a spot where the Internet connection was weak.

I still like the idea though. I don’t want to carry my data around with me and worry about back ups every week and such. Maybe in a few years….

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