52 Bicycles

Or something. One premise of SAAS type services is that computation takes place in the cloud, so software does not need to reside on the client. Single-instance, multi-tenant blah blah blah.

But we have these increasingly powerful computers with a lot of cycles at their disposal. SaaS may be a powerful trend, but there is going to be an increasing opportunity to utilize those local processor resources to do more work, either by re-integrating the local computer into the cloud computing infrastructure, or doing more user-centric processing. In this way one ca get a lot more cycles for users, at minimal cost. The question is how to deliver the software to exploit those local MIPS.

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