The other day I used Google Docs with a colleague to hash out a project, and I was really digging Google Docs at the time — thinking “man, this totally blows fat client software away,” because we could both update the document, and chat in the sidebar about changes… it was really useful.
Today, I’m trying to create a spreadsheet with Google Docs and keep getting an “Oops, a server error occurred” when trying to save a spreadsheet and just thinking, “man, this totally blows.” I just spent 10 minutes creating a template that I can’t save in Google Docs. Luckily, I was able to copy and paste the content into an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet with no problem.
I know that OpenOffice.org is not completely bug-free, but I’ve never had it refuse to save a document before… every time I start to think that I’d like to switch to Web-based software completely, I run into a problem like this and think “nope, Web-based software still isn’t production-ready.”
i use google gears just in case