Sounds like we're going back to the Stone Age. Back in my terminal days, there was a screen and keyboard. The server was in the basement of the building and tons of serial cable connections. This type of computing is to allow more control over the connection and more processing power from the Cloud server. But this time, instead of one server, it's a bunch all over the internet. Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft currently have cloud systems currently out there for a price per meg / time.
One problem. You will have a boost in borrowed processing power, BUT you will see a slowness in data flow over the internet. I'm not sure if this will actually make any difference for the standard business. You might save sometime if your system crunches numbers all day long though.
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