Transcription: Client-server computing has also been far more expensive than anyone ever imagined, mostly because of systems incompatibility. The pieces were never designed to interoperate or share applications, a function of the fact that lots of organizations, particularly large organizations, are waking up to the fact that they have put the equivalent of a 1985 mainframe on the desk of every one of their clerical workers. And they have all of the maintenance, backup, and service costs multiplied by thousands, in some case tens of thousands. Client-server is in fact not a full-blown phase of computing. It' ...