Re: When server validation of software bites

"Mik" <mik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But that doesn't rule out all web services. It doesn't rule out all web
sites which provide some kind of function,

No. It doesn't rule that out. I never speak in absolutes as doing so dooms
argument to failure.

which people are prepared to pay for. I don't know how Google Video
works, have never used it, but it doesn't look like a success.

The "success" seems to be more related to the cost of operation FWICT.
Which relates directly to a point I made in another thread recently.

I have never said that all applications can and should be replaced by web
services.

No. You didn't say that and I'm not saying you did. However you *did* use
Google as a shining light for an example and this clearly shows that using
them as a shining light is flawed. They are not. Time will tell how many
more of their endeavours in this field will cost more than the net income
benefit to Google Inc.

Scott Kane

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