A friend of mine groused about OnLive's layoff meeting and about the trustworthiness of cloud providers. To which I responded:
> Client-server computing, aka thin-client computing: a computing model > where your data resides on, and applications run on, servers that you > (or your school or employer or whatever) own, control and maintain. > > Cloud computing: client-server computing where you give to a total > stranger your checkbook and credit cards, the keys to your house and, > if you're really gung-ho about it, custody of your children. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
