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To: Burt Masnick who wrote (187)1/15/1997 3:37:00 AM
From: Kevin OBrien   of 282
 
I agree Burt: the NC concept lacks common sense. I design, build and sell PC's for our own retail store along with working on my market research in my spare time.
We have seen all this before: the IT department trying to gain control over corporate desktops having lost the mainframes which were their power bases.
Sun is pandereing to their desires and to its own ambitions to provide an internet operating system to rival Microsoft.
The cost of the hardware of low end PC's makes a NC irrelevant. The cost of remote storage is greater than cheap hard disks. Who is going to pay a service provider for rental applications when they can have cheap or free, even pirated, software under their own control and with no bandwith or data transmission hassles.
Corporates wanting control over workers desktop apps have cheap simple tools now.
Another very important aspect is who is going to develop all these Java applications ? I have had my time in software development and it is time consuming, expensive and never finished.
When management wakes up to the costs required to train or retrain programmers in Java (which has been described as a a re-invention of Forth) and the costs of the application devlopment there are going to be some double takes. At best interest by IT departments in Java and NC machines looks like an excercise in self preservation.

Kevin O'Brien
PC Help, Petone NZ
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