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To: Alan Newman who wrote (5236)	3/13/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 9068

Alan, there are two good uses for Winframe. 1. Legacy applications that were written to the Windows GUI. These could be single-user applications that need to be operated remotely (by a single user) or multi-user applications that are NOT client-server (and thus do a lot of database processing in the application) and need to be deployed across a low-speed and/or firewalled network where it isn't desirable to expose database connections to the remote network. These would typically be run on either Winframe terminals or PCs running a Winframe client. 2. NEW applications that are written to the Windows GUI and intended to be deployed on Winframe terminals, possibly replacing dumb terminals. This permits a full-featured user-interface (as opposed to web applications, which have a limited UI) and permits companies to draw upon the huge base of development tools for the Windows GUI. These will typically be single-purpose captive workstations - say, airline ticketing, the aforementioned Fedex terminals, etc. I think that (2) will turn out to be much more important than anyone ever thought. Instead of an uncertain future with Java, Winframe offers the choice of working with proven tools.