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To: Allen Benn who wrote (806)4/8/1997 3:07:00 PM
From: Richard Karpel   of 10309
 
>>>NC advocates respond by pointing out that no one is suggesting servers take over local processing<<<

Allen, I may be misunderstanding your point here, but I thought that centralized computing is a feature of the NC that corporations find attractive. For instance, that's what the following paragraph from the WSJ article appears to suggest:

"Another research firm, Boston-based Yankee Group, found that 58% of major corporations it surveyed are evaluating NCs. The main attraction wasn't lower cost, as is frequently assumed, but centralized control over their workers' computing resources."

Although it's left unstated, my guess is that corporations want control of PCs back from employees to help prevent unauthorized personal pursuits like games, Web surfing and reading and posting messages on financial bulletin boards like SI.

Thanks for the deconstruction of the Windows Terminal, although I'm still a little fuzzy on the difference between Windows TerminaIs and NCs. Is the main difference that Windows Terminals (and X-Terminals) execute instructions on the server, whereas NCs execute instructions at the desktop through the use of Java? If this IS the main difference, what is the benefit of desktop execution? Computing speed resulting from decrease in network traffic?

>>>Please note that Oracle owns the NC.<<<

What about Sun?
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