-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Then the question is, why do they need those 7000 Windows 2000 Desktops? Wouldn't they be better served by 7000 X server workstations and several Unix machines with centralized user accounts?
I know, that's old-school. The whole concept is out dated and out moded. (And I'm terribly off topic) However, the way I see it, we've come full circle AGAIN. The only difference is that this time, the front-end piece was never ment to be used the way it is. X was designed from the ground up to have all processing on one machine and display on another. Shoehorning desktop-level applications into the web space just because nobody wants to roll them out to 7000 windows machines should *really* be thinking hard about why they have those 7000 windows machines. If everything is being pushed over as a web app, then you have 7000 very expensive web browser hosts using technology that really wasn't ment to be used as a GUI client for desktop level apps. It's grown up that way due to people pushing the envelope with javascript, but it sure wasn't designed for that type of work. Thomas Mäder wrote: > It might be easier for you, but not for the corporate IT shop you're > trying to sell your stuff to. They probably have some wacked out > compliance test to go through for everything they want to install on > their 7000 Windows 2000 Desktops (XP being too newfangled and unproven > to be used). In contrast, web apps are usually not problematic (except > that you can't use Javascript). > > Thomas > >>> Your reason is a special instance of a much more general reason. Web >>> applications are much easier to deal with from a deployment >>> perspective than desktop applications. >> I don't know, it's not difficult to set up an RMI server, or to deploy >> a Swing client with Web Start (gives the user a single-click launch >> from the browser). I've done it, and frankly it's easier than messing >> with Tomcat and Web frameworks (no offense to Wicket). >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - -- Philip A. Chapman Desktop and Web Application Development: Java, .NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIhLrwAdpynRSGw3URAh5pAJ0d82grx13YFlKZHTbiEi6sdZkJhACfR1Vc 9blmmiwqZWEbYJ9XOp8TyWg= =1u03 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
