a glimmer of hope!

[Kent Paul Dolan]

In the news:

Cloud computing has already swelled into an
estimated $36 billion market this year,
representing roughly 13 percent of global
software sales. The big question now is whether
it can turn into a technology tsunami that
sweeps Microsoft and other software industry
staples into obsolescence.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081221/ap_on_hi_te/tec_cloud_computing

One can only hope. Sadly, though, this just returns
things to the bad old days of big, centralized,
over-powerful providers, so it isn't self evident
that sweeping Microsoft aside will do much [beyond
temporarily placating the ravening masses yearning
to be free however much Redmond blood needs spilling
in the process]. Ultimately, it may just amount to
trading one set of shackles for another.

xanthian.

[patmp...@gmail.com]

Seems like a good idea to me. The average computer just sits there
99.97% of the time. Huge waste.