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The Case Against Web Apps

Posted by timothy on from the only-as-strong-as-its-weakest-data-link dept.

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister offers five reasons why companies should re-consider concentrating their development efforts on browser-based apps. As McAllister sees it, Web apps encourage a thin-client approach to development that concentrates far too much workload in the datacenter. And while UI and tool limitations are well known, the Web as 'hostile territory' for independent developers is a possibility not yet fully understood. Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive, but long term, the browser's weaknesses might just outweigh its strengths as an app delivery platform."

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  1. Really. by Odder · · Score: -1, Troll

    What FUD. We will see these kinds of stories until M$ finishes building it's "cloud" and then Web apps will be the rage. M$ won't get there anytime soon, but Google and others have been reliable for years. Expect M$ to recycle their "thin client" and Network Computing FUD for another decade.

    1. Re:Really. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I pasted links to my irrelevant journal entries! I spell Microsoft with a dollar sign! I must be modded up!!

  2. Re:Why is it worth their time? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Troll

    it should just work on any browser that does a good job with standard HTML.

    I hear GNU/Hurd will be bundled with one.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  3. Re:No Shit. by Martian_Kyo · · Score: 0, Troll

    And since it's java it will be painfully slow and resource consuming,

    but stable i suppose.

    Back to the original discussion web apps are better as far as distribution is concerned, once you distribute a web app to servers you KNOW everyone is using the new version and not some old version with a potential bug or exploit.

    Then again, web apps are easier to exploit, it's amazing what you can do with http headers.