Jambo I looked every where but couldn't find any articles about your statement "oracle NC, you could run Microsoft Office".
The way the NC works is that it uses applets which is programmed by Java. The applets could be the application program or the data for the program. The thin client which is the user requests applications or data which the NC sends to the thin client. The user does his work.
For MS office to be a true NC they would have to program it in Java and also reduce it program size due to bandwidth problems on the network.
Nick Petreley rebuts the rebuttal with examples of how business applications are guiltier than ever at playing with the OS, and gives reasons why NCs should be as compatible as appliances like Televisions are today.
ncworldmag.com
This is even more likely to be true with NCs because the NC is likely
to resemble the commercial appliance more than PCs. After all, the NC
is essentially a computer built on the television concept: Same signal
(Java, TCP/IP, etc., instead of a radio frequency carrying a standard
encoding format), different appliances with different features to use that common signal. If you buy a television, bring it home, plug it in, and if it doesn't receive half the channels it is supposed to, you'll bring it back and get a new one that works (which is what I meant when I said that, if it doesn't work, you return it for one that does).
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Hey this sounds like my example.
I've notice a increase in NC talk on a few threads I lurk. People are starting to wake up to the NC. Lets hope this Java potion will cure the MS cult followers.
Go Java GO |
