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Gotta love those librarians for challenging the status quo!
Librarians rock the computer world!
In a pilot test in the City of Houstan, the public libraries there tested a completely different way of delivering an office productivity suite to the masses. The innovative approach uses a thin client-server approach from a company by the name of SimDesk.
http://www.simdesk.com
from the company press release comes the outrageous claim:
http://www.simdesk.com/pressrelease5.asp
"SimDesk Technologies Creates First World-Wide-Server™ Capable of supporting more than 21 Million users on a Single ES7000 Server '"
Irregardless of the validity of the above claim, the fact is that the City of Houstan awarded a $ 9 million dollar contract to basically throw out all of their copies of MS Office, in favour of using the SimDesk, thin client approach for all city workers is certainly pause for thought!!
Even more innovative is their bridge the digital divide approach with their SimHoustan project.
Incredibly, all Houstan residents who have a library card will be able to gain access to the server based office productivity suite from anywhere or anything that has a connection to the Internet.
The only requirement is that they have a power user library card.
http://www.simhouston.com.
This definately fits into my GottaTry or check out category, and is worth a look by many individuals and organizations anywhere!!!
Sim Sites:
http://www.simdesk.com/sites.asp
SimDesk Wins Houstan National Recognition for Bridging Digital Divide
http://www.simdesk.com/pressrelease10.asp
"Promoted through the city as "SimHouston - A Software Free for All," the software allows anyone with a Houston library card to create, store and access personal documents from any computer with Internet access anywhere in the world. With its word processing, e-mail accounts, spreadsheets, calendars and sharing capabilities, SimHouston is touted by library users, students, small businesses and even tech-savvy Houstonians who are looking for web-enabled alternatives to existing desktop software."
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