No, the world moved away from it because it sucked. A companies entire productivity relied on the stability of the network, with nobody able to use local storage you were one bad harddrive away from losing everything (a situation that went away, but has come back recently as harddrives have gotten too big to effectively backup, sure you've got RAID but that just means you're 2 dead drives away from the grave), it was slow, and all around it was a pain. All the "moves" I see in client server are a bunch of bluster and fluster with no real changes.
Terminal Services has been around in some form or another since NT3.51, changed names a couple of times but it's not a development of the last 5 years. Most of the "maturing" it's done is to steal features from Cytrix and undercut their market, it still doesn't have a major market share.
The reason ERP is going web is that a central repository is key to ERP. Most office stuff is written by one or two people then shared. And really ERP shouldn't be going web because the UI for web app sucks, every app (ERP or otherwise) that's gome from real client server to web based has taken a HUGE leap backward in usability.
Thank you for that in depth analysis
with nobody able to use local storage you were one bad hard drive away from losing everything (a situation that went away
I hate to break it to you but most corporations today don't want you to save things to your local hard drive. Shadow copy is nice and all but they want important docs to go to a file server.
sure you've got RAID but that just means you're 2 dead drives away from the grave
or three or ten or twenty, depending on how many hot spares you put into place.
it was slow, and all around it was a pain.
Was! we have this thing now called a *SAN*, running raid disks that are going to be faster than anything you find in a pee-cee.
All the "moves" I see in client server are a bunch of bluster and fluster with no real changes.
So in other words you are saying web based applications are not more prominent than they were 10 years ago? five years ago?
Terminal Services has been around in some form or another since NT3.51, changed names a couple of times but it's not a development of the last 5 years
And were crap until 2k, I never said it was not less than five years old. I said MS treated them like an after thought in NT4 which is more than 10 years old. but in the past five years they have significantly improved the product.
The reason ERP is going web is that a central repository is key to ERP.
So why not just use desktop clients that connect to a database like they have been doing with *ugg* Powerbuilder for years.
And really ERP shouldn't be going web because the UI for web app sucks, every app
No worse than powerbuilder. I have seen web based apps that look every but as good as local apps.
real client server to web based has taken a HUGE leap backward in usability.
Has not been my experience. I have seen web based apps that let you save session data to your local desktop just as if you were using a local app. What I do know is centralized apps save money, and save a good deal of it.