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Computing failsComputing failsPosted Oct 17, 2012 19:31 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)In reply to: Computing fails by Cyberax Parent article: Plasma Active Three released
I've worked on mobile agents for five or six years and I learned two things: to code really well and that mobile agents are snake oil. There's nothing a mobile agent can do that rpc can't do.
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Computing fails Posted Oct 17, 2012 19:34 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Well, there is one thing mobile agents can do much better than RPC: expose your machine to potentially malicious code and perhaps even infect it.
Computing fails Posted Oct 17, 2012 19:41 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Yeah... That's one thing that made it a tough sell to one of the larger Dutch banks who needed a kind of remote monitoring system for basel-N compliance.
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