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The NOISE group of Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Corel and Everyone else had the model right years ago. With bandwidth ( such as private networks - intranets, extra-nets, and other high speed networks ) the network becomes the system. Each member of the system - clients and servers are integrated through common languages or objects.
The idea is that a person interested in the service manual for a piece of equipment or operational system - a service engineer or client at a PC, or in the field using a lap top, wireless phone or other device not only could look up information but order parts, update systems, see graphic display, talk to experts, hold a meeting between the consultant and the providers and the home system would gather information about what is going on and what works and what doesn’t.
The service providers can MS.net, oracle.net, IBM.net Sun.net, AOL.net, apple.net, excite.net, go.net, yahoo.net, - plug and play just like the cell phone. For $ 50 a month your ISP becomes an interactive system to other services.
The contractor enters his phone book, calendar, and buys services from engineers, accountants, and get free services from suppliers, banks, sub contractors, etc. Those connected have a great advantage over those out of the loop.
The idea of references is still useful but you can also do a up to the minute search by a hyper text link that includes the key words -
http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C;page=create
http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C&page=show&topic=Nano%20Technology&sb=summary
What Microsoft wants to do is control the servers with a MS provided next, next generation NT platform operating system called XML but not open and universal.
The .net system works with devices that have .net codes built it. Microsoft products will run on .net as a server - client interface - XML files, XML data base, XML storage, XML index, id, calendar, updates, notifications, out in the cloud on MS XML server software doing object imbedded codes.
The applications become notations or services on the page.
The universal canvas API. Hardware drives, across all the devices and the .net controller in the a cloud. Development applications are built on the XML kits connected to the browser. This was Netscape’s vision from the beginning.. This is why MS had to kill Netscape and the NOISE group and what the browser wars was really about.
The platform is in the sky - Microsoft idea is the new version of what Netscape and SUN - the NOISE group ( Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Everyone else ) started talking about five years ago.
The server ( web site ) company internets, the ISP, wireless devices, i-appliances, game panels, can all use audio, video, photograph, office applications - word process, presentation, spread sheets, data bases, in a interactive way using a server AGENT or personalized options given the application, the device used, and the pattern of application - on a rental or fee-for-service basics. In other words all the complex stuff is up stream - rich standards based on XML works between platforms and programs but at the server not on the PC - This is the critical and profound change.
The server in the cloud does the transfer and integration - is the platform in the sky that can work with all kinds of devices. It can take a record from one place in one format and uses it in another program in a different format guided by the smart agent. Information can be used almost anywhere from almost anywhere.
The devices can use keyboards, mouse, voice, hand writing, file transfer, clip board, as inputs as well as agent intelligence on the server and user interface.
Not news - cloudy vision part two :
http://www.wired.com/news/lycos/0,1306,37168,00.html
Gates for the first time emphasized the Web browser as the central application of computing. Echoing remarks made by counterparts Marc Andreessen and Scott McNealy four years ago, Gates said the network is even more important than the computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/topics/f2k/default.asp
Microsoft is creating an advanced new generation of software that will meld computing and communications in revolutionary new ways; offer every developer the tools to transform the Web and all other aspects of the computing experience; and enable businesses, knowledge workers and consumers to employ technology on their own terms.
See cloudy vision in http://www.wiredbrain.com/gates.htm
year Bill Gates ( reference to HTML ) Building Internet Applications Professional Developers Conference San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 http://www.wiredbrain.com/bill-g.htm
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RE: Silly Ideas about the NC ( network computer ) or am I wrong ?
For $800.00 ( including monitor ) not $300 the NC can do
everything you do now and a whole lot more.
But I won't have my own programs ?
Why not ! An area on the server your programs C:\ just like your
C drive, D drive, your current files and programs are just moved
over. Anything you do now with a hard drive you can do on the
network - just you can do more. I think you need a read/write CD
ROM and 15 Mb or more of RAM.
There is not only a remote CPU
because CPU works at least at 50 Mb/s read/write and most
networks don't work fast enough.
The idea is to download the
programs that are actually working onto the NC not run them time-
share. Some sort of NETBIOS needs to manage traffic between the
NC and the server. Object management IIOP/Cobra makes NC's
different from the old terminals and time share systems.
But what about the user interface - I am used to Windows or Mac
etc.
You can load windows, NT or Mac the way you do now or use any
general purpose menu.
The main difference is the hard drive
interface, because you can still use sound cards, graphic cards,
game ports, et al.
The big saving come from managing software,
file and disk space, and a simpler operating system.
Too slow ?
Your C drive works at from 4 to 6 Mb/s per second, networks
should work that fast the standard should be 10 Mb/s.
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