On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > There are a number of pundits pushing the notion that desktop computing is > facing certain death ...
Mainframes are dead, minicomputers are dead[1], PDAs are dead, servers are dead, now desktops are dead. How come no one ever predicts the death of sensational tech press memes? -- Ben [1] Well, this was sort of right, in terms of architecture, but the role they were filling morphed into the servers we know and love today, leaving us basically the same roles with different names. [2] The Cloud is gonna kill all your servers, dontcha know? [3] The iPhone is a PDA that makes phone calls.[4] [4] Well, in theory it makes phone calls. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
