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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (2248)	8/11/2002 3:09:28 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) of 25522

If the thin client business is so promising, why did IBM and the other companies get out? This is the last hurrah of the mainframe, dumb terminal architecture. That article implies the thin client architecture reverts back to the big mainframe and terminal configuration. I don't believe thats the case- the thin client architecture is actually a 3-tier, with the mainframe crunching the big numbers for the centralized database, then the middle tier for content, personalization, some analytics and collaboration- then the thin client. The fact that the client is now thin means more clients can be supported than before... mobile devices and the like for warehouses, etc. This is just a gut feel but everytime we move to a new computing architecture, ex the original mainframe model to client/server, and now client/server to n-tier- we use more processors and chips, maybe its due to overhead... also the middle tier is a lot of java. The piece was from Barrons, correct? Since they like Orcl and SAP in their tech picklist, thats something of an endorsement for the new architecture since moving off c/s to the internet architectures is the new push for orcl (apps) and SAP. Lizzie

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