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From: "Amol Hatwar" rollacosta@phreaker.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Ignorance is bliss
market share in desktop environment. The entire core of dotnet strategy
is
to move things away from the desktop / client and move the processing
to
the server
These days are too far. The people at Sun thought about the Network
Computer
and burnt their hands.
Sometimes I use connection speeds where even the K is absent ;).
DotNet was thougth out and designed when the DotCom boom was at its crest and every one was saying the all corporate will move to ASP (Application Service Provider) model of computing. The dotnet strategy could, obviously not be changed at this stage though the dotcom boom ended, so its features are still there waiting for the time when it will be implemented. Till
then,
it will only serve to further bloat windows software.
The ASP model in general was a failure how many more dot-com companies do we need to prove that.
As for Network Computer, I think one hand it was badly marketed, and on
the
other hand, there was very little benefit of moving to that platform. The savings at each client was minimum and that power demand requirement added on the server side was too much. Sun based its NC strategy on "Anit-Microsoft" platform rather on user needs and benefits.
The NC seems promising even today. But then lets wait for IBM to eat Sun ;). Maybe then it will be more valid.
Regards,
Amol Hatwar.