Re: Personal Firewall Day?

["avraham shir-el (arthur sherman)" <avraham () jct ac il>]

i'd focus less on storage costs and more on TCO of uncle bill's station software.
we re-evaluate the thin client option every few years.
i beleive it's just a question of 'coming of age' as opposed to 'dead & gone'.
for a growing set of standard 'office' applics, the thin client is becoming
an ever more attractive mode of operation for us.
after a year of birth pains, our 60 terminal pilot has been stable for a year
now. as the lesser of 2 evils, i'd prefer managing a handful of MS terminal
servers than attempting to keep on top of 200 stations running uncle bill's
goods.
-ams
    > FROM - Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com>
    > WHEN - 6 October 2003, 10:57
    > SUBJ - Re: [fw-wiz] Personal Firewall Day?
    > TO   - chicks () chicks net, firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com, mjr () ranum com
    > 
    > Christopher Hicks wrote:
    > 
    > >Moving to a "grid computing" world with dumb desktop nodes would make me a
    > >very happy camper.
    > >
    > The world of dumb desktops has come and gone three times during my 
    > computing career.
    > 
    >     * Mainframes & minis with dumb terminals from the dawn of time to
    >       the microcomputer revolution of the late 70s
    >           o disrupted by Sun workstations & PCs in the early 80s
    >     * X-terminals and diskless workstations in the late 80s (kinda dumb
    >       terminals with a lot of power) came about because storage was
    >       expensive and using NAS for your OS saved a lot of disk space
    >           o wiped out by diskful workstations in the early 90s when
    >             drives got cheap and performance blew away NAS for latency
    >             on important things like swap and /usr/bin
    >     * "thin clients" in the mid 90s: we were all supposed to do
    >       everything in a browser, making operating systems obsolete. Or
    >       maybe it was a diskless Java workstation, or something
    >           o never got off the ground
    > 
    > The first wave of dumb terminals lasted 30 years. The second lasted 
    > about 5, and the third never got off the ground.
    > 
    > I submit that dumb terminals are dead & gone, until & unless something 
    > happens that makes massive central storage vastly cheaper than local 
    > storage. At the moment, local storage is actually cheaper than machine 
    > room spindles, so the trend is going the other way.
    > 
    > Crispin
    > 
    > -- 
    > Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.           http://immunix.com/~crispin/
    > Chief Scientist, Immunix       http://immunix.com
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