<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hmm... here is something that may tie in with RIM thread. RIM can sell hardware terminal, and VMware can sell something to connect to. "Thin-client" thing have been around, either as dedicated X-terminal or converted PC. Didn't get any traction, because X-terminal was crazy expensive, and nobody is going to convert working PC into dumb terminal. But, who knows this time around...<br></span></div><div><span>-- <br></span></div><div>William<br><span></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font
size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "jvj@golden.net" <jvj@golden.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:20:51 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kwlug-disc] Private Cloud<br> </font> </div> <br>My 2c.<br><br>For those of us who recall working with the 3-sickly of mainframe fame, I see the 'cloud' as a sort of return to mainframe style of hosted apps and storage and 'dumb' terminals with the latter being the users' PCs.<br><br>The users' PC would be 'tethered' to the host cloud either through the 'net (incl WiFi). The cloud-hosted apps could have optional access to local storage.<br><br>There should be no need to return to punched cards though.<br><br>All kidding aside: William mentioned collaboration with the
mention of the 'same document'. This could be the 'killer app' w/cloud computing.<br><br>JohnJ<br><br>On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:08:22 -0800 (PST), William Park <<a ymailto="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br>> I don't think people know what is "cloud" exactly. I personally don't.<br>> Is it Web enabled app like Google app? Is it distributed storage?<br>> Is it some sort of network mount? Or, is it an Office app which allow<br>> many people to work on the same document?<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div>
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