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Haven't we been here before. In 1996 or so both sun and oracle were hyping network pc's. That's seems to be no different than now except we have re-branded th
by crs 17y ago
Haven't we been here before. In 1996 or so both sun and oracle were hyping network pc's. That's seems to be no different than now except we have re-branded this client/server architecture "cloud computing".
I seem to recall a video where (i think ellison) was describing how your desktop would follow you no matter what pc you were sitting in front of. That is the same theme that Google had yesterday during there presentation.
As a sw engineer at one of the worlds largest aerospace and defense contractors we don't store much locally on our pc's. Our source is in SCM systems, the same with bug tracking and change requests. Most of our documents are on SANS to improve collaboration and sharing. So I guess i'm just not seeing something "entirely new" here.
- wmf 17y agoNo, I don't think we have been here before. In 1996 people didn't have broadband and there was no equivalent of today's Web 2.0 apps (demos don't count IMO). But considering that Chrome OS is basically a subset of Chrome running on a real OS, I agree that there's nothing really new.
- SamAtt 17y agoAlso, people seem to be forgetting the cache. HTML 5 apps and Google Gears apps cache data locally and Google made a point of saying the data "will sync" constantly. Network PCs (at least the one I saw from Oracle) didn't have local storage at all.