An immodest proposal: RSS configuration of networked desktops

Most desktop strategies are monocultures. What if you could, through the application of secure web-based technology like SSL and IPSec, create a heterogeneous desktop strategy that gave you 80% of the power of the homogeneous ones? Using RSS as a vehicle, and a cross-platform agent in, say, Java, to do the client configuration?

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