[thelist] Web services is cheaper than a LAN

[Christopher Mahan]

Unless each computer is stitting at the business end of a T1 with a
static IP, you're gonna need a LAN.

Heck, my home PC with cable modem has a HW firewall, and a 4 port
router. It's a LAN.

You need the LAN. 

Don't burn the book, return it to the vendor so the author doesn't
keep his share of the purchase price.


--- john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm working through Teach Yourself Web Services in 24 hours, and in
> chapter two it says, as one of the advantages of web services is
> it's:
> 
> "Cheaper than a LAN - it's hard to imagine any way of
> interconnecting
> computers that is cheaper than using the Internet. Every computer
> that can
> access the Internet could serve as a web service, or a web service
> client.
> A LAN requires you to connect all your computers with some sort of
> cable.
> The Internet allows you to connect via each computer's existing
> service
> provider."
> 
> Shall I burn the book now before my brain gets sullied with
> whatever's in
> chapter three, or does this sound right?
> 
> J
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