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>>Who really needs that in the browser? Enterprise IT departments, for one. IT people hate having to install, maintain, update and troubleshoot desktop applica
by enraged_camel 7y ago
>>Who really needs that in the browser?
Enterprise IT departments, for one. IT people hate having to install, maintain, update and troubleshoot desktop applications, for obvious reasons. It’s orders of magnitude easier to simply install the app on a web server and have users run it in their web browsers.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoAs an IT guy, I disagree, because too many times I've seen things that use a web interface break for esoteric reasons made possible by the ridiculous number of layers involved. Applications people use for work are pretty easy to deal with by comparison, we just bake them into the image and update them only when we need to for a feature or fix. Even then it's usually just a matter of overwriting the application install directory, which we can do remotely, or at the worst running a silent MSI install, again remotely.
- enraged_camel 7y agoI’m simply saying it as someone who has been selling software to enterprise for 15 years. Whenever we tell them that our software has a full-featured web client, it earns a lot of points over the competition.