Office 2.0

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The term Office 2.0 is a marketing neologism representing the concepts of office productivity applications as published applications rather than stand-alone programs. The term leverages the Web 2.0 concept to conjure imagery of collaborative, community based and centralised effort rather than the more traditional application running on a platform locally.

The term originated with Ismael Ghalimi [1] in an experimental effort to test the hypothesis that it could be done today, that he could perform all of his computer based work in online applications.

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[edit] Examples

Examples of where the term Office 2.0 may apply include

  • The centralized administration of office productivity software, installation, licensing and version control;
  • Collaborative applications which improve personal and organizational productivity ;
  • Centralized storage of data, rather than traditional personal data responsibility;
  • Applications which focus on collaborative data sharing, document review and document resource management;
  • Office applications which are able to be run from multiple independent platforms with a suitable back-end framework to present the application in a uniform manner.

[edit] Criticism

As with most marketing neologisms which later become accepted public trends, technologists contend that these technologies have existed for some time, particularly in the form of Microsoft Terminal Services based applications and Citrix XenApp published application frameworks. The term itself is likely to only be used as a reference to a group of selling points.

There are also questions as to how businesses will be affected by storing all of their documents in online environments. Currently, the search and seizures provisions offered by the Fourth Amendment do not apply to online service providers storing third-party data.

[edit] Development

Office 2.0 applications are often developed on the Web 2.0 paradigms with leverage on the existing developer community. Players come from both the commercial software market and from the open source, free software communities.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Ismael Ghalimi. Introduction to Office 2.0.