The Service That Isn't Just because the Internet is taking over doesn't mean you should let ASPs take you over. By Michiel de Bruijn W ord has it that deploying your apps on increasingly powerful, networked PCs will soon be a thing of the past. And you won't distribute apps on old-fashioned CDs, much less make them available through a LAN server.
End users save money because they can use cheaper boxes on the desktop.
And you regain ultimate control over what your users can do, from both an operations and a licensing viewpoint. By their nature, PC networks are extremely scalable. Just add another machine for each additional user. But that's bogus. Most businesses rightly measure the reliability of their IT infrastructure by ongoing user productivity.