Computing fails

Posted Oct 17, 2012 19:31 UTC (Wed) by halla (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.

Computing fails

Posted Oct 17, 2012 19:34 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (1 responses)

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 halla (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.