Weighing in on the browser as the new OS

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The PC is dead! The PC is dead! Yeah ? right.

Thin client computing has kept on trying to take down the PC, ever since the PC significantly displaced it in the 80s. When all is said and done however, it is generally far better to have a rich client app than a thin client app running on your PC or device. All rich client apps have to do, is incorporate all the advantages of thin client apps into themselves, and then maybe go several steps beyond what is possible with thin client apps.

Rich client apps will always be many times more sophisticated than web apps, and with the use of web services, can exhibit all the advantages of web apps several times over. As for the idea of the browser being a new, neutral OS / app platform: such a dream is not possible, because companies need to be able to differentiate themselves from one another as effectively as possible, and the neutral browser idea would not support it. Would you like proof of this? Look at the differentiation that has taken place in the database market away from standards. Also look at Java with companies making their own extensions to the framework, and also the many, many flavors of Linux.

Web 2.0 is nothing more than a dream. Desktop apps augmented with web services, in addition to many types of RIAs, will displace many higher end web apps, because they are more effective, easier to develop, and can bring far more functionality to users flexibly and efficiently.

Posted by: P. Douglas   Posted on: 10/24/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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