5 comments to “Hosted vs. Local applications”

1. On Thursday, April 12th, 2007 at 12:43 pm Philip Haine wrote:

   TurboTax Online stores your tax return information online. They just had a (minor) security breach, demonstrating one of the risks of storing sensitive information on someone else’s servers.

   A TurboTax user was able to view the full tax returns of a handful of other users. The information included social security numbers and bank routing numbers. It happened to H&R Block too. I’ll stick with the desktop version, thanks! (Ditto with QuickBooks.)

2. On Friday, April 13th, 2007 at 1:07 pm Steal This Idea » DabbleDB, FileMaker Pro, and Innovation wrote:

   [...] For more on the trade-offs between hosted versus local apps, see: hosted vs. local computing. [...]

3. On Friday, June 1st, 2007 at 7:04 pm Philip Haine wrote:

   Vision stolen! Eleven months later, Google has released a beta version of Gears, which allows browser-based apps to run locally. This is the dawn of “Either/Or Apps” that can be run either on a server or locally or both.

4. On Friday, June 8th, 2007 at 10:34 am Russell Maher wrote:

   Lotus Notes has had exactly this functionality (and extremely securely) for about five years.

5. On Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 9:37 am Philip Haine wrote:

   It should be noted that Google introduced Google Gears in May 2007, about a year after this article was published.

   Gears was to provide offline access to web apps, so this is now designated as a stolen ideas. (They never even said thanks!)

   As of this writing (3/23/10) support for Gears has wanted. Only Google Docs supposedly allows it, and I had read that Google is putting Gears aside to focus on the same functionality in the upcoming HTML5.

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