From: cjm2@lewiston.com
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 16:11:51 EST
When I first posed the question, I knew there might be insurmountable technical
obstacles. And I knew it wasn't something that everyone needed or would use. I
didn't know the font problem was taken care of in the 1.1 branch, and I'll check
that out.
However, there are some benefits to centralized administration and execution in
heterogenous networks. For example, not all thin clients boot from the network,
and not all networks that include thin clients are exclusively used for thin
client computing. It also isn't always practical or possible to meet
dependancies so that all users can run the same version of applications. This
applies to browser plugins just as much as it does to Abiword itself.
There are ways of getting around it, but it can be a problem to provide one
server-centric solution for execution, file storage/exchange, and printing when
workstations may encompass everything from Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux,
MacOS -- and different versions of each. Http and browsers are common to
virtually all graphical operating systems. If it was possible to run Abiword as
a web enabled application from a browser, then the architecture, OS type, or
version number, on the clients wouldn't matter, and upgrading Abiword,
companywide, could be a matter of upgrading one Intranet Web server.
Later,
Colin
Mattoon
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