Steve is such a pro.

Until he can get here, and tell the story himself, note that his
NO2004 presentation [http://www.digitalsmarties.com/tcl2004/klant_slides.pdf]
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"