Re: Itanium lap tops are needed now!

>Because the apps already exist and it is likely to be easier to port them
>than to rewrite them for a totally different model.

Examples?

> Why
> not client/server? Web-based apps?

>Because contrary to what some people keep trying to do, everything is not
>the web. The right tool for the job and all that.

Which is why I posited three examples: Leave it alone on he desktop,
web-based, and client-server.

>We already have that. It's called MSOffice. I thought the idea was to
>move away from that and bring VMS back into the picture. There is no
>desktop VMS and it is unlikely that there will be anytime soon.

I understand, but I'm the Devil's Advocate here. If the desktop app is
MSOffice, there will be no port to OpenVMS, period. MS won't allow it.
If the solution is to replace MSOffice with OpenOffice, OpenOffice
already runs on Windows, Linux, etc desktop, so why the need to run it
remotely and burden the corporate server with every clerical workers
memos (recall that apps like OpenOffice do use a considerable amount of
memory. Memory which is more expensive on the server compared to the
same memory - which likely already exists - on the desktop)?

Honestly, do you see OpenOffice as a "server app"?

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