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Re: Desktop in the Cloud

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On 2014-03-03, polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 21:13, jonh wrote:
>>  From the 1950's to the 70's, most terminals were thin terminals
>> connected to mainframes, so in one sense the current "cloud" trend is
>> just a swing back towards that kind of thin-client/fat-server model
>> (although admittedly, today's this clients are orders of magnitude more
>> capable than, say, a VT100). I wouldn't be surprised if we see the trend
>> swing back towards fat clients in the next 15 years or so.
>>
>> Actually, I suppose that one difference between the mainframe era and
>> the cloud era is that companies actually owned the mainframes that they
>> stored all their data on, so there is that, but it seems that people are
>> learning (one way or another) that owning your data storage is actually
>> a really good idea.
>
> I could be wrong here, but I was under the impression that much 
> mainframe kit was supplied under complex leasing arrangements rather 
> than purchase. This meaning that ownership remained either with the 
> manufacturer or a leasing company.

Correct. And the tense is "is", rather than "was". IBM *still* lease
mainframes and charge per CPU cycle.


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Desktop in the Cloud RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-02 14:16 +0000
  Re: Desktop in the Cloud Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-02 13:01 -0300
  Re: Desktop in the Cloud 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-03 08:58 -0500
    Re: Desktop in the Cloud Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-03 18:02 +0100
      Re: Desktop in the Cloud Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-03 21:48 -0300
  Re: Desktop in the Cloud "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> - 2014-03-03 15:13 -0600
    Re: Desktop in the Cloud polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-03-03 22:10 +0000
      Re: Desktop in the Cloud Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-05 09:18 +0000
    Re: Desktop in the Cloud Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-04 17:07 +0100

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