On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Stephen D. Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Everything will be run in the cloud and browser because it is, overall, a > better computation model.
Certainly that's the current bias, but web browser as platform isn't really all that it's cracked up to be, IMHO - all browsers suck, and I don't see them getting better any time soon, especially if they run javascript and plugins. > However, that doesn't preclude you from running a > cloud locally. Certainly better than public/commercial clouds - at least until proven encryption becomes the norm. > Although pretty much proprietary to Google & Amazon until > recently, Docker et al and related VM/container management APIs that are > mappable to all kinds of implementations will allow apps, administration, > networking, etc. to be fluid between commercial and various types of private > clouds. > > In a lot of ways, this is an elegant solution and could arguably be much > more secure than desktop apps in Windows. Assuming your container system > isn't running in Windows, which is becoming an option; one that I won't > trust easily. Eh - good sysadmins with good managers/policies can secure Windows just fine, though I do like jails under FreeBSD... Kurt
