> You may be in a niche business where change happens slowly, but > you can't extrapolate that to the business world in general. The days of > dedicated desktop apps running on local hardware networks are numbered.
Yeah, kind of like in the 60s and 70s when everything was a dumb terminal connected to a mainframe...Oh, wait...! There is nothing new under the sun, and way too much money can be made by simply changing things for the sake of changing things. So dumb-terminal web browsers hooked to "mainframes" distributed over multiple machines in the cloud will have their heyday...and then somebody will realize that dependence on outside resources makes us vulnerable and sucks, and completely localized computing will once again be the brave new world, simply because it's not what's being done at the moment and people can be made to buy new stuff in order to do it. There is far less rationality in this world than people think. Or, rather, the rationality that motivates everything is the rationality of increasing sales, not the rationality of the best way to do things. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
