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Fat Client & Thin Server

An SI Board Since July 1999

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Introduction Compact

I see servers of the future melding with our current idea of network cable. A thinner operating system at the server end, not the client, that provides uniform secure access to persistent storage. That's all a server is anyways, we just need to make it thinner. A very, very rough analogy today would be an embedded system implementation of a web server; servers essentially become intelligent disk controllers. As network bandwidth increases this becomes more of a reality since it is less of a concern about where data is; local and remote are one.

The intelligence to access those devices resides on the end unit our notion of a desktop. This provides for a fault resilient distributed architecture ... and happens to be the most cost effective since the price of desktop power is decreasing as power is increasing.

The desktop is the center of the universe; everything else simply revolves around it. Interestingly this is the opposite to Sun's strategy of Fat server and thin client.

May the battle begin !

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20	Thanks for the interest and the link Craig. I'll take a read and give you	Stormweaver	-	12/7/1999
19	James, Interesting thread idea. Thanks. Just prior to finding this new SI sub	GuinnessGuy	-	12/7/1999
18	Yes, we also need a network "web tone"; reliability/consistency simil	Stormweaver	-	12/3/1999
17	Re: Network storage I don't think you're too far off the mark there.	Bill Fischofer	-	12/3/1999
16	Cool. That's right on the money. As bandwidth approaches MBIT/GBIT we tru	Stormweaver	-	12/3/1999
15	Re: Thin servers I think you're on the right track. The current issue of	Bill Fischofer	-	12/2/1999
14	Thanks Jim, it started more as a "what-if" to some of the thin client	Stormweaver	-	12/2/1999
13	Brilliant concept! This is the beginning of the end for SUNW's "BIG	jim kelley	-	12/2/1999
12	There is nothing stopping you from syncing your work data to a remote disk (ser	Stormweaver	-	8/27/1999
11	So what do I do if I'm a mobil worker? or even someone on Vacation? do I h	Nolan S. Toone	-	8/27/1999
10	Also, there is no reason they couldn't run Linux, BeOS or anything else at	Stormweaver	-	7/25/1999
9	Firstly, RTev, I'm charting new waters with this idea although I'm sure	Stormweaver	-	7/25/1999
8	The local disk is used as it is now on all desktops. It holds the OS and the a	Stormweaver	-	7/24/1999
7	So what good does the local disk do? --QS	QwikSand	-	7/24/1999
6	It seems to me that we're moving in two different directions, but neither o	RTev	-	7/24/1999
5	The gist of the idea is to keep processing power/control on the client side whe	Stormweaver	-	7/24/1999
4	Kewl! So everybody still gets to have individual Microsoft-taxed copies of the	QwikSand	-	7/24/1999
3	I really believed that a true evolution in computing would be to distill server	Stormweaver	-	7/24/1999
2	I would agree that the Anti-Sun strategy could be a real possibility.	Tech Master	-	7/24/1999
1	Testes 1234 Testes	Stormweaver	-	7/24/1999

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