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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (1209)	9/16/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) of 5102

There's no governing body to stipulate what an application server is so in that sense it is a marketing ploy. If you've got an application specific tier between the database and the client you probably meet the buzzword-compliant criteria for an application server. One thing we can be sure of is that all application servers are object-oriented -- as you know, the criterion for object-oriented software is that it be for sale. So, you're intuition is correct, it's just a new name for the middle piece of a three-tier architecture. I guess the advent of HTML, CGI, and Java really drove the need to distinguish those types of servers from the more common two-tier database server. I think it is safe to assume that when marketing people talk about application servers they are talking about a web-based server that serves up browser-hosted applications to clients on the front-end and interfaces with the database (or perhaps another layer of abstraction) on the back-end.

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