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To: Tom C who wrote (4563)	2/15/2000 10:08:00 PM
From: David R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

RE: If the world is changing to a thin client browser-based computing" The world is not changing to browser based computing. Browser-based computing is augmenting traditional PC, and also emerging in new markets that have not adapted well to the PC (i.e. hand-helds, etc.). The PC is here for the long haul. The press has been beating the thin-client drum for nearly 4 years. It has failed to materialize. A PC provides flexibility and power at a fraction of the cost of a thin client (when you add up the cost of the server and fat network pipe required to support it). How many companies that drove down the thin-client turnpike a few years back are still alive and kicking (and still doing thin clients)? A thin client is supposed to be a cheap PC, but PC's are now cheaper than thin clients, thus rendering them useless.