Time to "PUSH" the limits on the Internet
I know you've heard this before, but I've been involed in telecommuncations since 1982 and have watched the Internet become main-stream and eveolve. Here's why I think Flex 2.0 will change the world:
Everyone (developers and users) currently have accepted and live inside a client-server paradigm. We expect to send a page request to a server, then get a reply. We understand that sometimes we have to 'refresh' the page. We never expect the page to actually change itself.
With Flex 2.0 sockets remain open and a server can acually push data to the end-user. Take a moment to think about what this means. Effectively, this is equivalent to having your keyboard and monitor directly connected to another computer.
Here are a few examples of ways we can use this new PUSH technolgoy that I've heard recently:
With Flex 2.0 a 'shared object' is created and the Flex Data Server handles distributing any changes to that object out to all who are sharing it!
I truly beleive that not only will Adobe become the next Microsoft, but that the Internet will completely change. I think the past 10 years have been the Internet just warming up. With univeral broadband and push technology, its a whole new world!
Please comment on this article with your ideas for Push technology. What could it possibly do, that our minds are not open to because we're trapped in the client-server transaction-request paradigm.
Ray sent me.