{"id":291,"date":"2004-03-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=315"},"modified":"2004-03-03T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T17:00:00","slug":"fat-vs-thin-client-wanna-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/03\/fat-vs-thin-client-wanna-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat vs. thin client; wanna bet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zapthink.com\">ZapThink<\/a> gets it\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zapthink.com\/report.html?id=ZTR-WS111\">totally backwards;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nRich clients will supplant portals as the primary interface to Web Services and Service-oriented functionality in the enterprise by the end of 2007.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Bzzt.<\/p>\n\n<p>These guys need to get out more.  Go check out some of the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knownow.com\">KnowNow<\/a> or\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod-pubsub.org\">mod_pubsub<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod-pubsub.org\/kn_apps\/\">demos<\/a> for an example of what&#8217;s\npossible with <em>existing<\/em> (nevermind\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2003\/10\/31#2003-10-avalon\">next-generation<\/a>!!)\nthin-clients.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sure, a fat-client approach may have some minor advantages (more responsive?),\nbut zero-install is da bomb, baby; once you&#8217;ve tried it, there&#8217;s no going back.  Ask\nany CIO; they&#8217;ll gladly accept a slightly suckier zero-install solution over a fat\nclient solution any day of the week.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZapThink gets it totally backwards; Rich clients will supplant portals as the primary interface to Web Services and Service-oriented functionality in the enterprise by the end of 2007. Bzzt. These guys need to get out more. Go check out some of the KnowNow or mod_pubsub demos for an example of what&#8217;s possible with existing (nevermind [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}