[BBLISA] Web Application - Word, Excel, etc, Citrix? Something Else?

[Cappella, Victor]

What about something like Confluence?
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/

We use this product for on the fly documentation and collaboration,
manuals. etc.. 
There is all kinds of user level control etc.. you can even export pages
as PDF's or word docs.

All you need to do is make the url available to where the users may want
to get at it, granted this might still require VPN if you want to
protect the content.

-Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:13 AM
To: 'John Stoffel'
Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: RE: [BBLISA] Web Application - Word, Excel, etc,Citrix?
Something Else?

> Edward> Another possibility that would be awesome...
> 
> Edward> If I can somehow make X11, or VNC securely available in a web
> Edward> browser, for outside-access into our network...  Then people
> Edward> could just launch OpenOffice, or anything they want, on our
> Edward> internal files...
> 
> Edward> I'm also having trouble finding any products like this.  Know
> Edward> of any?
> 
> Setup a VPN for your users?  Then connect to your internal network
> over the VPN, then they can access any internal web apps securely,
> without the web app needing it's own strong security.

Naww...  I already gave them VPN.  It works, some of them use it.
Others
roam around from computer to computer, location to location, don't
always
have their own laptop with them.  Prefer to login to the web browser and
simply edit a doc, rather than install vpn, reboot, open a vpn, browse
file
share, and then edit a doc.  (Of course the first 2 steps are required
only
the first time.)  They also have the convenience of saving password in
the
browser, which I don't give them on the VPN.  Not sure if I can, even if
I
want to.

The point is - the convenience of editing the doc inside a browser just
can't be beat.  For people who quickly think up something, want to jot
it
down, and instantaneously move on to something else...


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