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VIRTUALISATION Desktop software: not green, not lean and mighty unclean
VIRTUALISATION Desktop software: not green, not lean and mighty unclean | Desktop software: not green, not lean and mighty unclean |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 09 June 2008 | |
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There's no prizes for guessing which companies -and one in particular - I'm talking about, so I won't even bother to name them. However, Microsoft (oops!) can't really be blamed for its role in the proliferation of desktop software. After all, the Internet has only been mainstream since 1994. And it has only been in the past two or three years that software as a service (SaaS) applications have been made practical by the increasing spread of broadband. Prior to Web 2.0, desktop software on fat clients was the only practical way most of us could get our work done. It could be argued that much of the desktop software (especially the office productivity stuff) produced between 1995 and 2005 was redundant and simply designed to force us to spend money on new hardware and software. But hey, that's the business that supported us. So what's the problem with desktop software now? Please read on to page 2 |
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