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  3. April 2007

RE: What do I use?

To the original poster, go ahead and use Visual Age for RPG.

Ok, yes, to get back to the OP's question. I'm in the opposite camp.
Unless you're building an app that needs to work disconnected from your
servers (user @ 30,000 ft.) or building something like Word,
World-of-Warcraft, iTunes, or Photoshop DON'T BUILD THICK CLIENT!

Non-browser-based apps are a return to the nightmare that was
client-server. No matter how "standard" the deployment environment is
you'll spend lots of time figuring out why the app behaves differently
on different machines. At a minimum there are 5 versions of W2K (no SP
-> SP4) 3 of XP (no SP -> SP2), Pre W2K if you want to support it, and
now what 6 versions of Vista? Add into that (if you care) how many
versions of Office? At least 4, O2K, OXP, O2K3, O2K7. Testing and
deployment is a bear.

-Walden


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