The line between big desktop applications (like MS Word) and online applications (like Googles Writely) is fast becoming blurred as more and more applications are now available as web based applications. Even Microsoft, the company most wedded to desktop applications has now forayed into Web software with Windows Live and Office Live—collections of e-mail, instant messaging, and Web publishing apps.
One such interesting roll-out is from a organisation called Tabblo.com….check out the link below…
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/16/04OPreality_1.html
What we are witnessing, is a trend, where - soon, we will move everything to the cloud (internet), including compute cycles and data storage. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600894
The implication for IT marketers is clearly that - if everything finds its home in the cloud, the device you use to access it becomes totally irrelevant. No wonder then, that thin clients have found a fresh lease of life again.
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