The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

[Dave LeYanna]

Ok, how's this...

Get a good marketing department for Sun and resurrect the hardware based 
JVM. Use a thin client that communicated with "application" that 
communicated with the JVM any or all of which could be anywhere with a 
minimum of the thin client and personal data being on your "personal" 
device. Your "application" could be anywhere, including your personal 
device. You could even have the hardware JVM in your personal device or 
it could be located anywhere and you just plugged your personal device 
into it.

Is there any reason that that wouldn't be the best of all worlds an a 
little less of a paradigm shift?

Oh, another thing, require that all applications be "user" skinable so 
that at least the user would have some consistency. There, not the 
programmer has some consistency and the user has some consistency and 
the model leaves room for anyone to implement any business model. 
Remember, no proprietary data format and a lot of "public" librarys for 
code reuse.

Dave

Dan Shafer wrote:

> No, specialized ultra-thin custom browsers that RUN apps on the  
> server. Thin clients, not thick.
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> On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
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>> Specialized ultra-thin custom browsers that download apps from a  
>> server?
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