The reader feedback to my May 15 column regarding the impact of fat clients on scalability was, "Are fat clients all that bad?" The rest of the mail I received questioned the alternatives to loading all of the applications on the client. CMP Network Computing
ReadYou can't be too rich or too thin, or so the saying goes.Unfortunately, the status quo in client/server development is that the client application can never be too fat. But these fatty applications will choke our networks of today and become the legacy applications of tomorrow. CMP Network Computing
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