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To: Stormweaver who wrote (35032)	12/2/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Valley Girl	Read Replies (1) of 74651

There is a lot of hype here to be sure. I think there's a place for both, I don't view recent trends as harbingers of the death of client-resident software any more than client-server's popularity spelled the end for big-iron. I think it depends completely on the app in question. I for one would rather run office-like applications, tax prep software, etc. on my PC because as you say it's more productive than depending on the world-wide-wait. Other sorts of apps are much better off if the bulk of the logic and processing is left on the server; these tend to be apps where server-side transactions are central to what the app is doing, for example making air travel arrangements. This will probably be sorted out over the next year or two, right now you hear about how everything will run from the network and you'll have nothing on the client. A good test will be Intuit's attempt to bring the tax-prep app to the hosted model. Regarding Java, here's some late-breaking (bad) news from MSFT on Visual J++: vnunet.com

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