Mark Kent wrote:
Microsoft's PC-centric, vertically integrated,
stand-alone, single-user, local-access-only applications increasingly
look like a left-over from the 1990s.
Yes and no.
Things like peer-to-peer and clustering, which take those stand-alone
machines and combine them into massive networked machines are an
alternative to the central server.
For example, they keep saying how linux has the fastest supercomputer --
but are they counting those systems that use screensavers to calculate
molecules and all the rest?
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