On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
[...]
>* Each machine will eventually be a web server as this is how individuals
>will collaborate their work as well as access their own information
>from remote locations. Already Linux is like this. MacOS now ships with
>"Personal Web Sharing." Windows will follow suit in time.
HTTP is not designed well for file sharing and collaboration, just for
file publishing. CIFS is better suited for collaboration. The big
advantages of HTTP-based Web servers are (a) CGI and (b) content
negotiation, neither of which are really used by the average desktop user.
>* Each machine could have its own database server, as needed. Today,
>individuals maintain personal databases in "MS Works"-like applications.
>SQL Servers have taken great strides to accomodate the net, and I see no
>reason why this won't happen with the smaller databases, or the SQL
>databases could scale down. Linux already does this.
Hopefully, future OSes will have mature database management systems built
in and used extensively for configuration purposes. The Windows 95 and
Windows NT Registry is a step in that direction. X's rdb was an early
attempt at such a system, but it never caught on well within the X world,
let alone outside of X.
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