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1 edit |  Back to the future
Looks like with this type of product they are trying to return to the days of terminal based access to time-sharing data centers. Compuserve, Prodigy, & early days of AOL.
A thin client environment can mean a low cost method of accessing your data from anywhere, but it does depend tremendously on continuous availability of the back end systems that hold your data and run the applications. The problem is when those back end systems seize up( see Amazon S3 problems), you lose all access to your application and your data.
As for me, I'd rather keep my critical data and application systems local(e.g. my financial systems), and just use the web to encrypt and back up that data.
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Saint Louis, MO | Maybe we can even go one step better, get keypunch machines and send our deck to the data center for processing. Then when processed, the output could be mailed back to us or as a real advance, even sent back over some sort of high speed data line. |
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