Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by mmooss on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:00PM
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That's embarassingly ignorant for an IT professional: Offline applications have 100% uptime? And what about the platform and infrastructure they run on? The question is, what has more uptime?:
A. Your local application run on your local platform; downloaded and installed by you/local IT staff; maintained, updated, and bug diagnosis/resolution done by you/local IT 40 hrs/week, who have very little expertise or resources, by vendor tech support maybe slightly better, or (if you luckily get their attention) by vendor engineers with almost zero direct access to your systems.
B. Hosted application run at highly resourced data centers with power, redundancy, etc. far beyond what most users can imagine; operated, updated, and fixed 24/7/365 by the actual application engineers with direct access to the system. It does add an Internet connection, which is a point of failure, between you and the application.
In almost every case, B is the answer to uptime. There are other reasons not to use hosted systems (customization needs, licensing costs, highly confidential data, unreliable Internet connection, etc.) but uptime isn't one of them.
Anyone who says 'system 1 is down right now and system 2 is up, so system 2 has better uptime' is not even trying.
A. Your local application run on your local platform; downloaded and installed by you/local IT staff; maintained, updated, and bug diagnosis/resolution done by you/local IT 40 hrs/week, who have very little expertise or resources, by vendor tech support maybe slightly better, or (if you luckily get their attention) by vendor engineers with almost zero direct access to your systems.
B. Hosted application run at highly resourced data centers with power, redundancy, etc. far beyond what most users can imagine; operated, updated, and fixed 24/7/365 by the actual application engineers with direct access to the system. It does add an Internet connection, which is a point of failure, between you and the application.
In almost every case, B is the answer to uptime. There are other reasons not to use hosted systems (customization needs, licensing costs, highly confidential data, unreliable Internet connection, etc.) but uptime isn't one of them.
Anyone who says 'system 1 is down right now and system 2 is up, so system 2 has better uptime' is not even trying.