Network computers for the masses get new life.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: October 6, 2004 | Copyright information

By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 6--Long live the network computer, an idea that never dies.

A decade ago, Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison predicted that cheap $500 computers connected to broadband Internet networks would undermine the Microsoft-Intel duopoly in personal computers.

These devices contained little computing power and memory. But they could connect to fast central servers...

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