NewsForge: Three Reasons Why Internet-based Applications are a Bad Idea

“We’ve all heard the hype about how Sun and Google may someday,
somehow, produce a version of StarOffice or OpenOffice.org that
you’ll access online through your browser instead of installing an
office suite on your hard drive. Even though I think ‘The Network
is the Computer’ makes a fine marketing slogan, I am still going to
keep most of my software where it belongs: on my own computer. Here
are three reasons why.

“1. Peering agreement falls apart

“You probably heard about the dispute between Cogent and Level 3
that cut off Net access for a lot of people…”

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