[js1138]

I have a difficult time relying on an outside party for availability of my apps. I'll keep Office software local. Also--what if I'm in a meeting (or somewhere else) with no Net access?

Competent network apps synchronize local and server copies of data files. Windows Server does, so one would assume that anything claiming to be better than Windows would allow offline access to data and documents.

Of course a large, centralized database requires access to the network, but that's true regardless of the OS.

[ShadowAce]

Competent network apps synchronize local and server copies of data files. Windows Server does, so one would assume that anything claiming to be better than Windows would allow offline access to data and documents.

Of course, but we're talking apps, not data.