Comic Transcript
ALICE: Heads up, big brother. We’ve got a new product we’re going to be pushing through and I want tech support ready to hype it for all it’s worth.
ALEX: What are we mindlessly pushing on our customers now?
ALICE: Don’t be cheeky. Due to the extreme popularity of the marketing phrase “cloud computing,” we’re going to be pushing a new operating system that is optimized for “The Cloud.”
ALEX: So you’re re-branding the thin client.
ALICE: No, the thin client is a client/server technology. This technology is based on “The Cloud.”
ALEX: Which is server based.
ALICE: In part.
ALEX: And accessed through a client.
ALICE: Yes, but since it utilizes apps from “The Cloud” we won’t need a very large hardware or software footprint on the client machines and —
ALEX: So you’re re-branding the thin client.