Application Future State

IT administrators everywhere should rejoice.  The march away from individual client loads is taking place.  We have the announcements of liveoffice, meebo, as well as several other traditional client implementations moving to the browser.  Why?

Two very specific trends are allowing this to happen.

1) Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth.  As bandwidth increases and becomes more readily available, the need for a connectionless client is reduced. 

2) Rich UI control via AJAX and Flash.  These two technologies are allowing the browser to behave and perform like a traditional client built using visual basic or another programming language.

Why is this a good thing for administrators?

Less pieces to manage.  Fewer client loads equals less hassle maintaining a clean client.  A clean client is a happy client. 

So, what is the downside?

You need a connection to maintain functionality.  If you want to maintain functionality in a connectionless environment you will need to load a client, back to square one.  What are the alternatives?  Perhaps technology has to come to the point where every PC will have its own html server, and as apps are accessed via the web, small less robust versions of the original client are loaded into the server for access in a connectionless environment.  This would also require a small configurable on the fly database to be built within the PC to handle data that would be synched back up at a later time. 

At the end of this picture you have what looks like a server, with a smart, powerful gui.  The PC build would look something like this:

• Browser
• Web Server
• Application Containers
• Database
• Kernel Layer

That looks just like a tiered server architecture.  Imagine that. 

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