> <i>Ellison once waged an architectural war against Microsoft. He believed that client/server (fat, Windows-specific clients) were an “evolutionary dead-end” and that everything would be run through a web-browser on a “network computer” (throwback to Sun’s “the network is the computer”).</i><p>seems accurate. personal computing seems dead as fuck. cloud & networks have ascended & end users have next to no power in modern computing. ellison called it?<p>> <i>Ellison may have won the battle but not the war. The world still runs on Microsoft Office and expensive MacBooks – yet, the browser is the OS. Architecture can be a strategic distribution model, but don’t ship your architecture.</i><p>i see tbis very differently. ellison called the strategic war but lost the tactical battles- strategy still won but not with Soracle methods. tbh java is a wonderful platform for service development (i chalk this up largely to longstanding/great Context Dependency Injection + JAX-RS features). to claim that macos or office have real relevance rings ultra false to me though. they are last hanger-ons of a legacy world, small outposts of legacy software in a world taken over by cloudy anti-personal bullshit.