Remember the idee fixe of these endeavors? Let's get back to centralized storage, centrally managed. Kind of like the days of *nix and VT-220s over RS-232. The 'terminal' just eats keystrokes and spits input blocks. What could be simpler?
Well, the kiddies all demand lots of code on the client, and so on. But, in due time, innterTubes bandwidth will be such that it no longer makes any sense to off-load data integrity to the client. It never did, but that's another story.
Today's story is that NAND density is getting really out of hand. One begins to wonder how soon the X86 cpu's active address lines will be exceeded by available storage and memory. When NVME is the standard, then we can all go back to AS-400 (originally the S38, now just called i) single level store, supporting RDBMS as integrated storage. Less and less work for the client (and, of course, client coders) to do.
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