[Am-info] ZDNet: Tech Update: Enterprise Applications / The browser gets some competition

[Fred A. Miller]

"Microsoft's .Net initiative has more angles than a starving dot-commer 
selling banner ads. ("It's software by subscription, a new way to build 
apps, a consumer identity service--and a dessert topping!") One of my 
favorite .Net angles is the "twilight of the browser" pitch. The thin 
client is history, says Microsoft . Browser-based HTML forms are a big 
letdown compared with real applications--and they create nasty 
bottlenecks by centralizing all processing on the server.

Instead, Microsoft says, we should be using real applications that take 
advantage of all that excess processing power "on the edge of the 
network." Translation: Browsers should be replaced by Internet-enabled 
Microsoft fatware running on your desktop PC."


<http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2841261,00.html>

-- 
Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org