The IBM Websphere portal product that runs on iSeries takes this one step further. Office does not need to be installed on the client machine in order to edit Office documents stored in the portal. The Portal includes an on-demand document editor for MS Word and MS Excel and I think Powerpoint.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:35 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: thin client dashboard built on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Sharepoint, for as much as I have used it, is a nice product. The main
thing I have used it for is to give groups of people (possibly from
different companies) a common location to share documents, task lists, bug
tracking, software feature tracking and things of that nature.
Probably my favorite feature that works quite excellent is the absolutely
seamless integration with Office (When using Internet Explorer). For
example, you can click on a document in the Sharepoint web page and it will
automatically open up in the appropriate Office product. When you save it,
it saves directly to the Sharepoint server (i.e. you didn't have to download
it, save it to your PC, and then re-upload it). I haven't found another CMS
that does that (though I haven't been looking for awhile).
I would like to hear if anybody has seen the equivalent from IBM? I hear
about Websphere + Portal in the same phrase here and there, but am never
sure if they are referring to a product similar to Sharepoint or a framework
for building portals.
HTH,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Lehti
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: thin client dashboard built on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
2007
Joe Pluta,
Anyone an advocate of Sharepoint?
Here is a snippet from the article you pointed us to at:
http://tinyurl.com/2meg67
Is information technology stuck on a plateau?
[ likes System i] Furthermore, he was developing a Windows-based thin
client dashboard for the global enterprise built on Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007. That conscious decision to marry IBM and
Microsoft technologies for global IT made me rethink some of my earlier
opinions about the future of mainframes. Just last month in these pages
I spoke somewhat disparagingly about the future of mainframe technology
in
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:26 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: An interesting note
Sometimes it's fun to Google things. I found this while Googling
iSeries.
http://tinyurl.com/2meg67
Joe
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