Re: Microsoft "mainframe"

[cfuture <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And it will happen again. Every 10 years or so. Watch...the next hot thing will be client server!
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Thin clients will stay, because they are easier to upgrade or downgrade 
or fix and fast to reboot, all the rest. They are going to slowly take 
desktops over from our present desktop models, because of those issues.

But we like having our own playground, so we'll get a micro-partition on 
the server. We could use a micro-partition setup on the i, that would be 
fantastic for developers. It would also make it easier to do 
client-server stuff and all the etcetera stuff.

So we won't let the PC go very quickly, there is also the inertia factor.

But then thin clients will start getting USB ports, like the article 
talked about, they will start sprouting all over. Besides the exotic 
devices in the article. storage devices will rack up local desktop 
storage again.

So there you go.

--aec

> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > We have finally come full circle in the PC world:
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-reinvents-the-mainframe/2184?tag=nl.e589
> >
> > "...Where Microsoft's ambition was once to put a PC on every desktop, in
> > 2010 they'll settle for delivering a desktop to you over a network, on a
> > device that might or might not be a PC. That's an enormous change."
> >
> >