|::| Sunday, April 28, 2002
- |::| On the un-centeredness of edge services 6:19:59 PM
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John Burkhardt writes:
Most Web Services models are an extension of Client/Server architectures. The service lives in the center, and you call it from the edge. At Groove we are all about decentralization which leaves the power with the user. So I can have my information accessible from anywhere, but it is always under my control and on my devices. Of course, I do have to have a device connected somewhere to access it. But hopefully you get the concept.
Alas, I fear I don't. This strikes me as a manifestation of the same fundamental error of both Notes (which Lotus never acknowledged, except tacitly, through only the initial introduction of Domino) and Radio (which Userland and the legions of Radio zealots all present as a virtue): You can only use it from one machine.
Here's a paradox: The truly de-centralized groupware will be server-based.
Put another way: To live at the edge, you must live at the center.
