I think the concept of thin clients is where we should be heading, especially now that internet is so much better. The kicker is who owns the super computer yo

I think the concept of thin clients is where we should be heading, especially now that internet is so much better. The kicker is who owns the super computer you're dialing into, and how much of it you actually own. "Back in the day" it probably made sense for a company to maintain their own servers. But now it's too profitable to not use amazon in most cases. It's nice not needing a server room, but hat suffers is ownership issues with infra and data, accepting the outages, and rolling with the crazy decisions amazon might make in the future that will effect your systems.