Adobe takes on Picasa

[raevyncent]

Read it here: Adobe to take Photoshop Online

[raevyncent]

What!!??? Not a single comment??!! :

[JohnT]

Here my take on it. People will eventually get tired of the ads and limited functionality so they will end up buying the full version.

Just another marketing technique.

[huxley]

Originally Posted by JohnT

Just another marketing technique.

yup thats what i thought.... i also thought... im glad i already have what i need (cs2) so i wont bother with this...

[Daniel Bates]

It looks interesting (server-side image retouching software, right?) but I'd be more interested in mounting CS2 on a flash drive and using that for remote applications.

[Gordon]

There are already quite a few of these available on line. They are quite limited in size and scope and the Adobe offering says it is going to have similar limitations.

It isn't likely to be interesting to anyone doing anything involved or on large files. A strike back from Adobe against the other companies offering web services, but not a serious tool.

(Similar to google spreadsheets vs MS Excel and so on)

[Pocketfisherman]

Server delivered applications is the software architecture that everyting is heading towards. Spreadsheets, wordprocessing, presentations, and even image processing. Companies like IBM and Microsoft are undergoing major paradigm shifts where their future success will be in their ability to deliver such services across the internet to thin client computers in users' homes and businesses. You'll see a lot more of this in the next few years, along with a greater proliferation of open source Linux operating systems versus windows.

[jeffkohn]

Originally Posted by Pocketfisherman

Server delivered applications is the software architecture that everyting is heading towards. Spreadsheets, wordprocessing, presentations, and even image processing. Companies like IBM and Microsoft are undergoing major paradigm shifts where their future success will be in their ability to deliver such services across the internet to thin client computers in users' homes and businesses. You'll see a lot more of this in the next few years, along with a greater proliferation of open source Linux operating systems versus windows.

I disagree, it didn't fly when Larry Ellison at Oracle was trying to push it a few years ago and it won't fly anytime soon. Many software companies would no doubt love to see this happen, because it would mean they could charge users indefinitely for a service rather than selling them a product. But users don't want it. You can't deliver a rich UI in a web browser, you can't guarantee that somewhere between my house and the remote server there won't be a slowdown that makes the application unavailable, and you can't convince me that I should trust some company's server to keep my important data.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by Pocketfisherman

Server delivered applications is the software architecture that everyting is heading towards. Spreadsheets, wordprocessing, presentations, and even image processing. Companies like IBM and Microsoft are undergoing major paradigm shifts where their future success will be in their ability to deliver such services across the internet to thin client computers in users' homes and businesses. You'll see a lot more of this in the next few years, along with a greater proliferation of open source Linux operating systems versus windows.

Yep, any day now Linux is going to make a break out, yawn....

As for thin clients, anyone remember the X-Terminal which was going to displace the pc on the desk top?

And I work in a Client/Server group.