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5 5  Today most of user's needs are not satisifed because it takes too long and it's too costly to develop small applications. Actually lots of adhoc applications are developed today using tools like Microsoft Excel. However when it comes to developing a collaborative web application Excel is not the right tool. On the other hand a second generation wiki like XWiki is a perfect infrastructure for this. __XWiki is the Excel of the web__!
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7 -Chris Anderson created the concept of [Long Tail>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail]. Applying it to XWiki gives the following diagram:
7 +Chris Anderson introduced the concept of [Long Tail>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail]. Applying it to XWiki gives the following diagram:
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9 9  {image:xwikilongtail.png}
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11 -What it means is that there are thousands and thousands of applications required by users that are __not__ built today because of prohibitive complexity and costs. They would also take too long to build and their interest would decrease if they took too long to build. XWiki is a cost-effective solution that allows non-developers to create those required applications quickly.
11 +What it means is that there are thousands and thousands of applications required by users that are __not__ built today because of prohibitive complexity and costs. They would also take too long to build and their value would decrease as more and more time passes for their implementation. They need to be created here and now to have the highest possible value. XWiki is a cost-effective solution that allows non-developers to create those required applications quickly.
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12 12  1.1 Examples of applications
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14 14  * A blogging application

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