The Codecruncher

Will the day come when all of our aplications running in our computers will be hosted on remote servers? Right now, two of the most used kinds of applications the world over are already avaliable via Web: Writely for word processing and iRows for spreadsheets.

Other, more heavy-duty applications such as Photoshop, programming language IDEs or 3D design applications may seem by definition out of this. As of today. Five years ago it was unthinkable that one could use Web applications to create documents or spreadsheets, right?

Will the day come when the Web browser will be the only application we’ll need running on our systems?

You can accuse Gates to make boring presentations (easy when you’re a Mac zealot) but maybe I’m weird. I strongly prefer being bored on a presentation than being taken for a damned fool. But I’m weird like that.

On this excellent post, Mark Pilgrim tells us about his current data storage needs, and what he foresees about it. And the solution is, at least, difficult and/or expensive.

Although I don’t have (yet) his storage problems, I was beginning to think about the same issue, so his post has come really handy. And in the comments I’ve seen a recomendation for Infrant’s ReadyNAS, which Amazon resells. At $2,199, the 2 Tb X-RAID NAS seems very likable to me. I think I know where my next bonus pay is going.

Besides, it’s freakin’ cool.