Re:The IT department is dead
by henning on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @04:59PM
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Demise of the PC? To be replaced by what? Thin clients?
Will it maintain backward compatibility with all the unmaintained proprietary software people use to run businesses? Probably not (Windows is very unhip and everyone uses Linux).
Weren't thin clients supposed to take over long ago?
I think everything he says will eventually happen, just not soon.
"You can make the same argument for on-site power generation. That didn't keep companies from using the power grid."
A major selling point of these stupid data centers is supposed to be their high uptime and resilience against power problems. What went down is a data center, and that killed dozens of hip Web 2.0 services. If all your computing stuff is in the cloud and a major part of the cloud goes down, you have no computing and you have absolutely no control over the situation, because after all, the data center never goes down. Oh well, you're doing what the pundits tell you to!
I'm fucking sick of how people on this site don't care that web applications often have shitty uptime.
Will it maintain backward compatibility with all the unmaintained proprietary software people use to run businesses? Probably not (Windows is very unhip and everyone uses Linux).
Weren't thin clients supposed to take over long ago?
I think everything he says will eventually happen, just not soon.
"You can make the same argument for on-site power generation. That didn't keep companies from using the power grid."
A major selling point of these stupid data centers is supposed to be their high uptime and resilience against power problems. What went down is a data center, and that killed dozens of hip Web 2.0 services. If all your computing stuff is in the cloud and a major part of the cloud goes down, you have no computing and you have absolutely no control over the situation, because after all, the data center never goes down. Oh well, you're doing what the pundits tell you to!
I'm fucking sick of how people on this site don't care that web applications often have shitty uptime.