Saswata Banerjee & Associates writes:
One place administration still takes place under existing systems. Under windows (which I am familier with), you can use system policies set on
each
pc, combined with Zero Administration Kit on a central server gives you
the
ability to control and administration of all pcs on the network.
[chomp()] Saswata, there's a difference between propogating one configuration to different hosts from a central place... and keeping the the configuration in the central place.
Compare it with the telephone network... its the network thats intelligent... not the telephone. The *intelligent network* paradigm seems unavoidable because as users increase, propogation latencies will mean diiferent people have different settings at different times. Because the settings are at the client end... one may tweak or bypass them directly... (like many people in the US who make their cable modems work at highers speeds).
I think a thin-client and an intelligent network... that was the NC mission. For some time at Sun this was even the raison d'etre for the Java Language.
Regards,
Amol Hatwar.