The user of an
application will not be forced to buy it. He will not be
driven into hardware-related expenditures to accommodate the
ever growing size of applications. He will not find himself
wasting his scarce memory and computing resources on passive
storage. Instead, he will use a browser to call a central
computer. This computer will contain the needed software,
broken to its elements (=applets, small applications). Anytime
the user wishes to use one of the functions of the
application, he will siphon it off the central computer. When
finished - he will "return" it. Processing speeds and response
times will be such that the user will not feel at all that it
is not with his own software that he is working (the question
of ownership will be very blurred in such a world). This
technology is available and it provoked a heated debated about
the future shape of the computing industry as a whole
(desktops - really power packs - or network computers, a
little more than dumb terminals). Applications are already
offered to corporate users by ASPs (Application Service
Providers).
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