Re: Need an advise from experts

"John Claxton" <johnclaxton_at_advi.net> wrote in message news:0c01f639995d91fad8d04d50c59c422d.96068_at_mygate.mailgate.org...
> Kris,
> Think of were the *BIG* boys are going. (Oracle is already there.)
> Web apps are the here and now. Client-server never lived up to the
> hype.
> Sigh. Oracle's application suite (11i) is web based. PeopleSoft, SAP,
> et al
> are all playing catch-up.

Sigh. History does repeat itself doesn't it. Doing something because 'the big boys are doing it' or 'its the future' or ' everyone else has got one and I don't want to be left behind' is a fast track to failure. Do it because it is right. Web based apps will work well where you have slow (or no) network links between database and client, heterogenous client platforms, slow client machines. Client server works well where you have fast network links (think LAN), a consistent platform and a consistent (reasonably powerful) client machine. And please allow at least the same development time for a web app as a client-server one.

Finally my take is that in general client server did deliver. It delivered faster, more flexible, more productive computing than the old mainframe systems did in many (but not all) cases.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK