Just as a reminder, this really isn't new technology. Bill Gates played chess on a typewriter-like terminal which sent commands to a mainframe which returned the result nearly forty years ago.
So now we have the same architecture only with prettier pictures. Forgive the cynicism, but our computers are a 1000x faster and a web application (even with "AJAX") still doesn't offer the richness of a native app. Why would I want to be tethered to a remote server to type? Also, has anyone looked into what the company behind the AJAX app is doing with your potentially confidential documents? It doesn't seem to be open source, so you can't even run it on your own server... seems suspicious. Note that Mozilla/Flash/Java/[insert flash-in-pan .com] were also supposed to be *the* web platform... On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Eric Martin wrote: >> That could be said about anything though, what if my isp is down, what >> if the wireless ap goes out, what if their site is down. In the near >> future, there are going to be many apps moving to the web.. Microsoft >> products are some of them. > > No doubt, it's cool technology. No doubt, apps are heading that > way. I mention the single point of failure (SPOF) as just something > to think about. Specifically, I'm thinking, what can I do to guard > against this SPOF? Right now, nothing comes to mind other than to > also install a word processor. > > But beyond that, yes, I do think it's super cool. Linux/Firefox web > appliances + USB stick, anyone? ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
