Brian Catt

UK

ICT Consultant

This is making news out of false definitions, quite spurious column filling. The news is that internet enabled applications are increasing Internet ultisiation withdedicated applications.

Peer to peer exchange is a new application, maybe replacing FTP a bit but not significantly. Instant messaging is an incremental peer to peer application unrelated to browsing or web based information. Neither of these replace browser functionality, which is essential to visit and browse web sites as it ever was.

You can't vist a web site without a browser, period. Further it isn't a good idea to do commerce using dowloaded clients, as Tesco found out, maintaining this downloaded base leads to too many problems. The vendor needs to control the application interface, so the client must be dumb, and the Browser is an ideal cross platform standard. Ask Amazon.

Brian Catt.