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It's a good article, I just don't buy the conclusion
as much as I like the sentiment.
There are plenty of reasons to use WinForms or something
like it. Keeping all the business rules on the server
isn't always the best way to balance the system or manage
it. Being inside the HTML framework when trying to
do 3D turned out to be a pretty crummy solution and I
suspect for anything near real time and critical, that
becomes the case. Few notice it because there aren't
that many real time/mission critical apps out there
on the web. What happens is that the costs of these
apps for any sizable organization stays fairly constant
and fairly high. What we have done and in fact most
of our industry (public safety) is doing is learning
how to use the browser for what it is good for and
get costs down that way. It's been very effective.
We sell lots of I/NetViewer applications. Where browsing
and light interaction is needed, works great, less filling.
What the web has contributed:
1. Awareness of the costs and complexities of using
industry specific network protocols. What will be
interesting is to see if REST is up to Real Time.
2. Awareness that lack of data standards is keeping
costs high and interoperation (at both the machine
and human levels) unreliable. Unfortunately, it still
isn't as easy as some think to design an XML language
that is suitable to all media but it is dang near
unthinkable without it.
3. Regional Automated Integrated Networks (Let it Rain).
A good idea who's time is not only come, it is past due.
I wonder why operating systems have never become no-cost
commodities or if they ever will. LINUX suggests they
can although it isn't really no-cost. I believe this
is the area for innovative thinking in the business model.
If it is true that commoditization or even 'just one
winner' means we lose innovation, we have to live with
the fact of big landowners and sharecroppers. On the
other hand, no one sharecrops these days just as the
family farm is disappearing because technology still
favors the well-heeled. No combines; no harvest.
It is a tough row to hoe if you have to feed the world
and clothe the poor yet still be tasty and stylish.
len
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
David Megginson wrote:
> This
> will be a good chance to see if Tim's server can withstand the
> /. effect.
Heh; third time on slashdot. Ongoing is entirely static HTML pages via
apache, it's a sub-1GHz Intel box of some sort and the system load
rarely hits 0.1 even under a fresh slashdotting. This is a Sunday
slashdotting which is nothing compared to a weekday-morning hit; every
geek in the world does /. end-to-end when they first sit down at their
desks, near as I can tell.
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