Oops forgot the footnote (seems to be a trend around here today)
Patrick Finnegan declared on Monday 23 February 2004 05:40 pm:
  somewhat like the current corporate IT infrastructure
of a bunch of
 remote PCs or thin clients that are fairly dumb with some
 high-horsepower backends[1].  Basically, you'll have lots of small, 
[1] Yes, this is an over-simplification and generalization, but I'm
speaking more to general trends of the industry than to any specific
instances.
Pat
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