Sure, and you would have the same deployment issues as your basic fat
client. Every time you needed to do an upgrade you'd have to upgrade the
chips on all those clients to support the latest browser, Open Office
application, etc.
Or, you could do what IBM tried and during bootup it would initiate a
trivial ftp session (TFTP) to the mother ship and update itself from
there. With huge cautions that if the user rebooted again during the
update you just trashed the thin client.
What about cookies and that genre? Say what you will about the "black
helicopters crowd" who insist on turning off all cookies, java script,
etc. You know, those who insist that the world adopt to them (but
doesn't).
Rob Berendt
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