So it appears the idea of software as a service is getting more traction and acceptance, which is interesting when you start to take it to further conclusions… like will computers in general go poof and be managed from a big central repository? I know I’ve considered suggesting to at least one consulting client that they get a big server and ditch the workstations for dumb terminals.
Back to the green screens?
November 7th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
It’s the computing cycle of life, what’s old is new again. Recycling at a high level.
I really think we’ll see a hybrid of the two for the foreseeable future, as there are many applications that still don’t run well over a network (video, audio and photo editing to name a few). As bandwidth increases and computing becomes ubiquitous, we’ll see more of a migration towards central management of applications and storage of data – the recent AJAX craze is just the beginning of this shift to utility computing.
We still have some issues such as privacy and security that must be solved before this becomes widely accepted by consumers.