On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:59 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Client/Server has absolutely nothing to do with any of this. That design concept was around before Microsoft and has nothing to do with desktops or anything else in this discussion.
I disagree. The traditional concept of client/server was desktop client/{file,database} server. Certainly there were a few others talking about client/server in the sense that Microsoft used the idea, but that was not the typical meaning intended by use of the term.
A file server is a client/server design, and was used in the Novell servers Microsoft competed with
That is exactly what Microsoft decoupled. A file server became a file service.
And there are quite a few secretaries using linux on the desktop. In a managed environment, users don't see the configuration issues
Quite a few? I known some smart cookies working as receptionists or secrataries. They aren't all air-heads. Nonetheless, I suspect the percentage of secrataries or other admin personnel using Linux as their primary workstation is very low. Steven