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Access Devices: Thin Is In

by Stephen J. Andriole

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show more than 10 years ago to discuss "network computers." This was when a lot of ahead-of-their-time ideas were out there, like Apple's Newton and IBM's voice-recognition applications. Ellison assumed that networks were ready for thin clients, but he was wrong, because at that time our networks weren't reliable, secure, or ubiquitous enough to support "thin-client" architectures -- not even close. Never mind that the devices themselves were also a little weird and way too proprietary. But if Ellison reprised his appearance on Oprah tomorrow, he'd be dead right.

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Access Devices: Thin Is In6 February 2008

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