Re: Microsoft "mainframe"

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keep your eye on http://www.idevcloud.com for the developer micro 
partitioning on IBM i.

As to the other points I agree that "smart terminals" AKA thin clients 
are the future with the main processing and storage back in the data 
center where it is better managed and the cost of ownership is much lower.

Funny, that's what Rochester tried to do with the 5250 terminal back in 
the late 70s.  Put a floppy/hard drive on it and allow the internal 
processor to do more than just serve up 24*80 line screens.  The IBM 
boys in Boca Raton, FL grabbed that idea and the IBM PC was born about a 
year later........  Ya gotta wonder what might have been.....

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 6/13/2010 6:06 PM, cfuture wrote:
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> > 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
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> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, sjl<sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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> > > 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."
> > >
> > >
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