With a thin client, you can maximize the one resource you have complete control over, the server, to do the brunt of the work and dish out a minimal set of data and presentation layer information.
Trained medical workers provide some scientific medical care. But many people have to rely on such practice as the use of plant medicines or even treatment by witch doctors.
We are reminded of this even before we view a collection by the presence of security guards, attendants, ropes and display cases to keep us away from the exhibits.
Although Skype's service has become so well-known that its name has become a verb, it has struggled to get users to pay for premium services such as calls to mobile phones.
And we believed that Skype's amazing engineering team, led by the original Eastern European software wizards who created the service, could compete and win against anybody.