Comments on: Why Can’t We Have Both? http://blog.servoy.com/2008/08/21/why-cant-we-have-both/ Servoy news, opinions and thoughts Thu, 17 May 2012 09:13:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Amy Wohl http://blog.servoy.com/2008/08/21/why-cant-we-have-both/#comment-5 Amy Wohl Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:27:50 +0000 http://blog.servoy.com/?p=50#comment-5 Of course! Customers always want to have their cake and eat it, too, and being able to have an application in both native rich client mode and also as a browser app is perfect -- as long as it doesn't add to developer overhead or cause the application to deteriorate. Servoy has one answer. Other techies have taken other approaches to offering off-line versions of SaaS applications, some with more developer overhead. For many applications, this is clearly the way to fly. Of course! Customers always want to have their cake and eat it, too, and being able to have an application in both native rich client mode and also as a browser app is perfect — as long as it doesn’t add to developer overhead or cause the application to deteriorate. Servoy has one answer. Other techies have taken other approaches to offering off-line versions of SaaS applications, some with more developer overhead. For many applications, this is clearly the way to fly.

]]> By: internetfuzzi http://blog.servoy.com/2008/08/21/why-cant-we-have-both/#comment-4 internetfuzzi Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:58:14 +0000 http://blog.servoy.com/?p=50#comment-4 Its OT, but I just wanted to make clear the origin of the phrase you use in your introduction : "throwing the baby out with the bath water". It`s of german origin as far as historians can be sure of. For more, please check the (english) text at De Proverbio, the world's first multilingual electronic journal of proverb studies : WOLFGANG MIEDER "(DON'T) THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER": The Americanization of a German Proverb and Proverbial Expression* http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html Its OT, but I just wanted to make clear the origin of the phrase you use in your introduction : “throwing the baby out with the bath water”.

It`s of german origin as far as historians can be sure of. For more, please check the (english) text at De Proverbio, the world’s first multilingual electronic journal of proverb studies :

WOLFGANG MIEDER
“(DON’T) THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER”:
The Americanization of a German Proverb and Proverbial Expression*
http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html

]]> By: brendal http://blog.servoy.com/2008/08/21/why-cant-we-have-both/#comment-3 brendal Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:48:55 +0000 http://blog.servoy.com/?p=50#comment-3 You got that right, Bob...I remember working at BIG IRON Wang Labs on a dumb terminal and seeing the dreaded message on that green screen: LOGGING OFF IMMEDIATELY HORRORS! You got that right, Bob…I remember working at BIG IRON Wang Labs on a dumb terminal and seeing the dreaded message on that green screen:

LOGGING OFF IMMEDIATELY

HORRORS!

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