On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote:
I think that the one thing getting in the way of the fat client, is
B2B
interactions. In the fat client model, data is behind the firewall
and
secure. Now we have to open that hole for access?
This is a no-brainer with web services. I'm not talking about the
SOAP-crud that Microsoft was pushing, but a simple XML-RPC sort of
call. In Python it's trivial to accomplish such a call, so if you
need to track a package from FedEx, you send out the call, get the
data back, and display it in your app. You need the exact same hole
as with a web page.
So a company now needs a web presence to start this B2B reporting or
ordering, or finding out about a service on order. We all realize
that this
isn't going to be fat client, and will only leverage data from said
client.
Seems like you're confusing the need to provide the data to clients,
and the client apps themselves. Both web browsers and desktop apps
can consume web information; the main difference is how it is
displayed and how the user interacts with the local copy of the data.
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