Steve is such a pro.
Until he can get here, and tell the story himself, note that his NO2004 presentation [L1 ] puts in paying customers hands NOW what IBM apparently believes will only take five million USD to build: " • centralised authentication • secure communication • a simple web server in the client • an application client/server connection - use to implement an API in the client - use to ship code from client to server - invoke functionality on the desktop"