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Moderated By: Stormweaver -- (Not Moderated) -- Started: 7/24/1999 2:35:00 AM Revision History

I see servers of the future melding with our current idea of network cable. A thinner operating system at the server end, not the client, that provides uniform secure access to persistent storage. That's all a server is anyways, we just need to make it thinner. A very, very rough analogy today would be an embedded system implementation of a web server; servers essentially become intelligent disk controllers. As network bandwidth increases this becomes more of a reality since it is less of a concern about where data is; local and remote are one.

The intelligence to access those devices resides on the end unit our notion of a desktop. This provides for a fault resilient distributed architecture ... and happens to be the most cost effective since the price of desktop power is decreasing as power is increasing.

The desktop is the center of the universe; everything else simply revolves around it. Interestingly this is the opposite to Sun's strategy of Fat server and thin client.

May the battle begin !

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20	Thanks for the interest and the link Craig. I'll take a read and give you	Stormweaver	-	12/07/1999 10:43 AM
19	James, Interesting thread idea. Thanks. Just prior to finding this new SI sub	GuinnessGuy	-	12/07/1999 03:42 AM
18	Yes, we also need a network "web tone"; reliability/consistency simil	Stormweaver	-	12/03/1999 10:23 PM
17	Re: Network storage I don't think you're too far off the mark there.	Bill Fischofer	-	12/03/1999 05:52 PM
16	Cool. That's right on the money. As bandwidth approaches MBIT/GBIT we tru	Stormweaver	-	12/03/1999 02:36 PM
15	Re: Thin servers I think you're on the right track. The current issue of	Bill Fischofer	-	12/02/1999 08:08 PM
14	Thanks Jim, it started more as a "what-if" to some of the thin client	Stormweaver	-	12/02/1999 03:57 PM
13	Brilliant concept! This is the beginning of the end for SUNW's "BIG	jim kelley	-	12/02/1999 02:49 PM
12	There is nothing stopping you from syncing your work data to a remote disk (ser	Stormweaver	-	08/27/1999 01:35 PM
11	So what do I do if I'm a mobil worker? or even someone on Vacation? do I h	Nolan S. Toone	-	08/27/1999 12:09 PM
10	Also, there is no reason they couldn't run Linux, BeOS or anything else at	Stormweaver	-	07/25/1999 11:38 AM

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