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>persistent connection and availability I can't really comment on the ownership model, but surely a persistent connection and availability is an incremental ch

• jdminhbg 10y ago
  If always-on-from-everywhere is incremental, then what isn't incremental? Are smart phones an incremental change from desktops?
  • nickpsecurity 10y ago
    If we give you that, they have one breakthrough over mainframes. That makes them "mainframes that are always on from everywhere." Mainframe apps were already doing that with terminal, thin clients, web apps, and so on. It was part of modernization efforts to give workers or customers better access to data or business logic on mainframes by putting better interfaces in front of them. Situation is improved today with cloud stuff but core capability was there.