[DLSLUG-Discuss] Metadot - or Other Ideas

[Anne Stanton]

Bill one of the benefits of Google Spreadsheet is the collaborative nature
so that you don't have to make changes, save, e-mail to someone, have them
open, make changes and send back.. 

The file stays put and people just open and change it. 

To a certain extent risk can be reduced (both to data integrity and to
confidentiality) if the file stays put. 

Anne Stanton, MVP-CRM, MBS-CAP
President
The Norwich Group
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 5:30 PM
To: Ted Roche
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Subject: Re: [DLSLUG-Discuss] Metadot - or Other Ideas

On Feb 9, 2007, at 17:04, Ted Roche wrote:

> Ah! I was hoping you were using the more portal-forum-like aspects.
> Live web-based file editing is using ActiveX in IE to edit MS Office
> documents, isn't it? Proprietary technologies editing proprietary
> formats in a proprietary browser, isn't it?

Can somebody describe the benefits of editing a spreadsheet in a web  
browser?  Is it just the ease of not having to save the file to a  
folder?

Besides WebDAV, you could probably accomplish something similar with  
a file://path/to/file.xls URL to a NFS share.

Is it live multi-user editing of the same document?

Note: last time I looked in SBS all users had the same permissions  
(everything was 777 in unix parlance), which is a factor for many  
businesses under HIPAA or SarBox.

-Bill


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