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• Subject: Re: Interesting XML-DIST-APP thread
• From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:21:14 -0500
• Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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Tim Bray wrote:
> 
>  The real reason the
> web is slow is because of its server-centricity and the fact that
> you're not allowed to do any significant processing on the client;
> the same reasons that IBM mainframes and VAXes were slow back in
> the eighties.  In that context, the Web Services approach has the
> potential of providing a major performance boost.

Not sure that I follow you Tim.  Are you saying that Web services will
push more of the processing onto the client, and off the server?  Why do
you think that?  /Roger

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