Web Services [Was: m$ to Google: do not dare take away from us what isn't ours]

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:

> AJAX is accomplishing now, with word processors, spreadsheets, diagraming 
> tools, etc all running through javascript in a browser).  This is just

Of course what you have then is a thin client running through a browser on 
a fat OS.  Why not take the next logical step and just drop the fat OS 
underneath?

The major substantive difference between the thin client approach I 
advocate and the web services approach is where the apps are running. 
I'd always rather have the data on a box under the control of the owners 
of the data.

Cheers,

Rob

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