Comments on: When Can I Run blist Locally?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:02:01 +0000

Working DoD projects last four years in highly secure environment, could have used BLIST and built for myself a 100% solution that cost us $1M+ to arrive at a 20% solution over that time. Too bad it can’t run locally.

By: Viktor Brech

Viktor Brech — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:17:39 +0000

I agree with the “software as service” approach. I’d stick to MS Office if I needed something else. But how about implementing some offline browser mode, for example via Google Gears? Zoho Office and Google Docs are doing it, I believe.

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By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:40:17 +0000

Going open source hasn’t hurt WordPress – in fact the WordPress.com hosted service has made blogging super easy and was only really afforded by the popularity of the WordPress platform as an open source tool. So there are potential benefits (how does a worldwide army of hacker evangelists sound?!), but it seems like it isn’t the right approach for Blist for the time being. And you would inevitably get more comparisons to MySQL et al, even though it probably wouldn’t be appropriate…

By: Jon B

Jon B — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:55:40 +0000

Erwin — blist allows you to export your data to a CSV. If blist were to go under, there will always be a host of alternatives that accept CSV as an input.

I think a stronger argument for running the application locally is that we are seeing in the marketplace that mid-size to large companies do not desire storage in the cloud as strongly as the internet press might have us believe. Obviously blist is targeted at individuals and smaller companies, but they too may have issues with having their data stored in the cloud, especially if blist encounters any operational or security related issues in the future. Time will tell how quickly and deeply companies adopt service related offerings — generally speaking I think we are in an early stage of business adoption of SaaS.

By: erwin blom

erwin blom — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:02:03 +0000

Yes, I agree with you, but …

With all those startups who knows who will be around in a years time. Maybe you don’t make it, maybe someone else buys you.

And when i have an app running locally, i know i can run that app in a long time to come.

So there is a reason for wanting something locally ;-)

By: Helge Hess

Helge Hess — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:39:23 +0000

Do you consider allowing remote access to blist databases from locally running clients? Using some webservice/REST protocols?

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