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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@t...] 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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