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To: mauser96 who wrote (6750)	7/8/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Respond to of 9068

The "HTML approach" is, as far as I can tell, the normal way things are being done already. I know that CTXS is selling a lot, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to all of the HTML work being done. Every ecommerce site in the universe uses HTML, as does every intranet application I've ever seen. The advantage of X-windows-like technology is that it lets you expose an application that is highly interactive. You can run the kind of editors or spreadsheets that people are used to on their PC's over a network. However, applications like these are very hard to scale to 1000's of simultaneous users precisely because they are interactive. This type of technology is also a way to take existing client/server applications and make them thin-client apps, but you will probably still have the same scalability problems. The vast majority of enterprise applications that I have seen would work fine via a browser. The only point about having a Java server someplace near (or inside, in the case of Oracle) the database is that it's a convenient way to write your application, saving you the headache of implementing a server architecture. This is all assuming that you can write the application in Java, which is the bet that most of the big database companies are taking, and which I think is a safe bet. It will be a long time before most of the existing apps get redone in Java, but I firmly believe that it won't be that long before most new enterprise applications get written this way. (I'd say within 3 years.)