RE: webfacing and competing products

Trevor Perry wrote:

> And two you will hear a lot, "thin client" and "fat client". 
> Think of the
> 40MB browser and 10MB JVM as zero megabytes and zero install, 
> and then you
> can have HTML for "free".

To be fair, most people have at least the browser installed already.

> And, if someone says they have a thin client, 
> but you need
> to install a Java Servlet or Applet - you just installed a 
> fat client. 

This is just not true.  First of all, servlets run on the server.
That's why they're called SERVlets.  Secondly, if anyone still used
applets (they don't, do they?  Apart from the IBM InfoCenter.), the
important point about them is that they're downloaded from the server as
required.  So while they may be fatter than a pure HTML client, at least
you don't have to send someone to every PC to install the upgrades: the
upgrade will happen automatically the next time the user uses the
applet.

Cheers,

Martin.

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