The Wired article was pretty interesting: A nice history lesson. I'm not sure I'd agree with the implication that a netbook and a cloud is analogous to the network computer though. Netbooks are popular mostly because of their portability. I would venture that many netbook owners, whether families or business people, also have regular PC's and Macs they use for other things. The netbook is intended as an addition to the PC, not a replacement for it.
Likewise it seems to me the popularity of cloud computing is more to do with server side efficiencies than anything to do with replacing client PC's. Cloud apps offer enterprises another choice in where to host apps: An alternative to maintaining their own server hardware. The service providers can then manage the cloud servers at multiple levels to make the most efficient possible use of the hardware.
Neither of these things seem to be designed to replace the more powerful clients we all still use, but to work with them.
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Likewise it seems to me the popularity of cloud computing is more to do with server side efficiencies than anything to do with replacing client PC's. Cloud apps offer enterprises another choice in where to host apps: An alternative to maintaining their own server hardware. The service providers can then manage the cloud servers at multiple levels to make the most efficient possible use of the hardware.
Neither of these things seem to be designed to replace the more powerful clients we all still use, but to work with them.
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