In that area, the desktop needed protection from Microsoft, which dominated the desktop. We didn't take care of that very well, partly due to the fact that the Personal Era of computing occupied a fairly small slice of our history. Emphasis comes now to the public network, and away from the desktop. The desktop has suddenly become less important. The network is in.
Content is in.
The desktop is out. What We Need Knowing that the paradigm of computing has changed, and that control of data means control of the enterprise, whatever its definition may be, how we approach data control is most important. If one company controls the data itself, along with the tools to manipulate that data, we will be screwed. Let's have a look at the ideal. Computing As we have discussed, there is a complex interaction between information and access to information, and processing of information.