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To: Stormweaver who wrote (22355)	11/5/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (3) of 64865

James...Excellent Vision except this is 1999 not 1979. We already have Ultra Cheap powerful PC's - 700 Mhz Athlons, Pentium III's selling for about 1000 or less. The vast majority of PC users will get more performance than they need with PC's priced at $500. Client/Server had equal parts processing on the client and database server - but everyone is rushing to move to internet based computing not because PC's werent cheap enough or powerful enough but because the management of the clients was a never ending nightmare and the network traffic of sending packets back and forth was prohibitive. When bandwidth approaches 1Ghz you'll see more emphasis on the server not on the client as the increased bandwidth will be used to connect all sorts of devices persistantly to the internet. There will always be a market for deliving fat client/server type applications from a known client to a known server with known OS's, Version Levels, Sofware, drivers, patches, etc..but in the 'net world your serving an unlimited amount of unknown devices so having more software on the client becomes a liability, not an advantage.

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