The Long Death of Fat Clients

snydeq writes "With Adobe's divestment of Flex and mobile Flash and Microsoft's move from Silverlight to Metro, Oracle now seems all alone in believing that a fat client framework — in the form of JavaFX — is a worthwhile investment, writes Andrew Oliver. 'Fewer and fewer options exist for developing purely fat client desktop applications and fewer still for RAD applications with Web-based delivery (aka, "thick clients"). We are on the verge of a purely HTML/JavaScript client world. Or we would be, if it weren't for mobile pushing us back to client-side development.'"

Did anyone else misread the headline?

[mark-t]

I had initially misread it as "The long death of fat cats".

My brain was all like, "What the hell?" Then when I opened the page to read comments I read the headline correctly.

Weird.

Another great thing about the US

[GodfatherofSoul]

We'll NEVER run out of fat clients