The Client-Server Model: Not Dead Yet
Of the approximately $64 billion spent on business applications worldwide in 2008, research firm Gartner estimates that about 10%, or $6.4 billion, was spent on applications housed remotely and delivered via the Net. "It has taken a decade to get there," says Ben Pring, a Gartner researcher. "It is going to be a sizable niche of the marketplace, but the idea that the chief information officer of a big business can rip everything out and replace it with software-as-a-service just doesn't work."
~ Fortune
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