Z:gnu-www-ja-kragen-software--86cc3c-The forces behind remote serve/en

The forces behind remote servers are similar &mdash; ease of use because of uniform interfaces through a web browser, &ldquo;just working&rdquo;, and no installation &mdash; just using. But they have a couple of other advantages as well: they can provide services that require massive storage or computational resources that can't reasonably be provided on your own machine, unless you want to spend wads of cash. (Downloading AltaVista's database every day would be a very inefficient way to search the Web.)