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To: Stormweaver who wrote (18941)8/26/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Prognosticator  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
1. Security of Information.
* Files/data that are key to my business or personal information sitting out on some server somewhere. IP snooping could allow hackers to save all information Trying to circumvent this with encryption would be VERY processor intensive for the large amounts of data we'd be talking about.

That's what https is for. You use online-trading and banking, how personal is that information?

3. Servers - points of failure.
In this model a server could represent thousands of user contexts. A dead server could therefore represent thousands of down users.

which is why you should use Solaris and not NT in your servers :) (sorry, cheap shot, but hard to resist). Our uptime for our 4-processor Solaris server is on the order of 60 days, and that's still not ideal. Our single-processor NT desktops are lucky to make it a week.

On a more positive note I do think that some traditional and a few new desktop applications can be realized in a web context (as thin apps). I just don't think they're ready to push MS aside.

Microsoft will simply buy all the good solutions with the money from their de-facto monopoly. But they will then screw them up, much in the way they are messing up WebTV with their Windows-centric agenda. Then a new set of companies will start up to do the same thing, and Microsoft will buy them. Until the DOJ stops them.

P.
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