Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees Their Own Café

Developers must address the privacy issue by software design, to make privacy possible, but let service provider's and end-users come up with a privacy policy that both agree to.

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That hits on a very recent concern of mine. For a business to run its business, I've been an occasional passive/agressive advocate for thin-clients ever since I heard about them, and especially since I saw an article in the mid-to-late-1990s no less about a Canada-wide implementation with Linux thin clients in which the lines served up ONLY the display text and GUI-required content, with the server being an AS/400. One of the early models too. With lightning implementation.
BUT Richard Stallman's comments on cloud computing resonated with what I've thought all along about it, in that I don't want intrusion into my stuff, and storing my personal stuff on somebody else's server is too much exposure.

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My initial thought about web portals was to access multiple sites from multiple <iframes>, but now I think the UI needs to be even more seamless. Pull content from multiple sites, but aggregate it with a seamless UI.

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Exactly what I was going to post, FWIW.

You might need to create a small piece to run on the client side though, I don't think HTML will cut it, and I don't know enough about Java but am not convinced for it...

---aec