Al, servers are getting bigger and bolder, but so are local PCs which is the point I made earlier. And still you can hobble a $250K SS2008 server with heavy munging unless you use resource governor (something that presumably was added because people apart from me have experienced resource overloading ;-) ) in which case the customer has to learn to wait when they never had to before. Why? Because it's better to do it on the server?
Of course there are other examples where doing everything on the server is a better idea. Nobody has ever disagreed with that.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
