WEB database application

Hello,

We are going to develop an application with Delphi that should access an Oracle database from different sites. Because remote access to that database from some sites is too slow, we first considered the Oracle replication facility. But this means a lot of extra costs for the facility.
Another solution is by using our intranet (which is already fully operational so we can't change the server). The problem is that the WEB server is in fact a UNIX system.
Note that am a complete WEB-newbie, but if I understand everything correctly, the implementation of CGI consists of some kind of DLL running on the server that passes the data to the WEB server software that puts it in some kind of html page (I got this information from the Delphi 3 manual).
Because the server is a UNIX system, and Delphi generates Windows DLL's we can't consider that (or am I wrong ?), except when we add a second server running Windows NT.

It seems that the only solution Delphi 3 offers consists of the use of ActiveForms. But that will probably slow down the database browsing again because ActiveForms run on the client, not on the server. Has anyone experience with this ? Can it run on any browser or do we need Microsoft Internet Explorer ?

Any suggestions are welcome, also if what I said about CGI is complete nonsense.

Marc

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