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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by C1sc0cat on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:54AM (#23536879)
I remember just before my first web project. I worked on a Oracle client server project (SMDS management tool) and to install the client, you installed about 4 products via 14 floppy disks one after the other on the client PC.

Took two days for two of us to install it on five or six client PC's

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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by noizejoy on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:34AM (#23537034)
So you can probably imagine what it was like when we had several dozens of client pc’s across several customer companies across several cities across the continent.
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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by C1sc0cat on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:05AM (#23537193)
Oh yes in 94 that was my key take away, you could launch a new system as a website and save a lot on deployment cots on say 500 seats.

I recall discussing this with the engineering centre manager about how in 5 -10 years the web could replace fat clients on PC's

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