Thin Clients, Desktops, Web Applications, and Web Services

The recent invasion of news about projects trying to implement the fat client desktop in the browser 1:1 led me to think about potential advances.
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In Web 2.0 Journal Alex Iskold describes his move from Java^TM to Javascript, discovering the differences and what's essential in software development. He also provides an interesting Firefox extension, blueorganizer.
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Survey identifies three important technologies for service oriented architectures:
web services, message brokering, and enterprise service bus (ESB).

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The single user version of Cross-Desktop is now available for download. The download file is of size 500 KB and contains the program code, setup program, and installation guide. The download is available from the Cross-Desktop demonstration page.

In an attempt to help users to understand Cross-Desktop by trying it on their personal computers we started to experiment with encoding the perl code so that the current libraries won't be customized, since we are changing the api with next version to become more web service supporting.

Things are developing well. But read yourself ...

For some programming efficiencies Cross-Desktop makes use of Unix system commands. In order to run Cross-Desktop on the Windows plattform it is, therefore, necessary to provide a Unix environment. Cygwin can serve this requirement. The following step by step guide helps to install Cygwin with required modules to run Cross-Desktop on it.

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Interesting gadget it is. Motion Computing offers a thin client in a tablet pc form factor. This solution offers ultramobile, wireless thin client computing with tablet pc advantages like pen handwriting. It seems to be the ideal solution for high data security and central data storage with its centrally managed administration.

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