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Besides large corporations who have the funds for these sort of things, for now we only see small-scale web apps built with AJAX. There is a ton of innovation bouncing around in the heads of the latest and greatest web programmers in the industry. The message from the public? “Get to it!”

Though they may not know it, the general public is dying for web-based applications to take over the tons of programs that are installed on their home and work computers. It doesn’t take a cheap consumer to realize that having one web platform for productivity that can be accessed from anywhere with a web browser is less expensive than having multiple installations of Microsoft Office or similar software. Then there’s sharing files between home and work. What a mess.

Some standards are emerging as viable web-based alternatives for project and life management tools. But what about Office-like products?

AJAX can provide a solution here. Have a standard. A standard that people do not have to worry about upgrading. A standard that can and will be maintained elsewhere.

We’re talking full-featured here. I want to be able to write my documents online, fully formatted, and have the option to save to my disk or save to an online space. When I double click a word processor document on my desktop, I want it to open up in my web browser with my favorite shiny web-enabled word processor. The same concepts apply to spreadsheets, databases, etc.

Which suite will my money be going toward in the future?

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