I think you're wrong on the performance issue. Technologies like ASP.NET that enable sophisticated server based data validation without reloading the entire browser page combined with advances in...

You are quite right. But it doesn't matter whether the client is a browser or a thin app that just looks (to the server) like a browser. I still think that, in the future, the fat part of the app is...

It's not relevant what the current trend happens to be at any given moment in time. The fact is that what I said about the maintenance, usage control, packaging and distribution costs to companies...

I don't think that Java is going to disappear completely, but I think that the future of software applications in general will be server based with browsers as thin clients. This mean that the GUI...