His stated goal is to be more productive by not using locally stored apps or files. Ghalimi claims that, so far, "it's the most productive way to get my work done."

He doesn't force other Intalio employees to follow his lead. And, ironically, his company doesn't offer its BPM software as a service. Although, he says, "we're looking into it."

There are obvious limitations to Office 2.0. Working while flying on a plane comes to mind. But wireless networks are becoming ubiquitous, even on airplanes, so network access is increasingly less of an issue for Ghalimi.

One drawback, though, does cause him some pain -- online storage and backup. Today, when Ghalimi surpasses the Gmail 2GB storage limit, he has to send files to a Yahoo account to free capacity on his Google mail service. When the Yahoo account fills up, he needs to open another one. He acknowledges that it's a kludgy approach.

Although Ghalimi trusts Salesforce.com to keep its data center up and running, the information he stores there is critical to his business, so he does back it up to another server -- one he set up at his folks' house. (You see, he's not crazy after all.)