Mobile computers and phones of today are ushering in a new stage of complexity and power that has changed the overall scope of what client/server means. Mobile devices used to be moderately-powered slaves that represented a UI, comm hook or data batching portal for a server that did all of the lifting. You can no longer look at a mobile device and consider it a "client" since it has all 3 layers on it itself. They are, in essence, micro-servers with user friendly control panels and touch screens. You now have to consider development as both client/server and server/server depending on the solution.
---------------------------------------- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ---------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:44 AM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] A new DML? > > It is clear to me that we have been for some time in an era of > "middleware". Some examples... > > Flex <-> ColdFusion <-> database > Ajax <-> pHp <-> SQL > SB+ <-> UniBasic <-> U2 > FrontEnd <-> MiddleWare <-> database > GUI <-> BusinessLogic <-> database > > With the emerging preponderance of devices, phones, tablets, PC's, the > trend towards three tiers is... forever. It is like the holy trinity of > computing. > > Although I am mainly interested in the NOW, I try to make it a point to > encourage others to get sentimental... about the future. > > --Bill > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
