>I though we ruled out the fat client solution several years ago. Microsoft
>is re-releasing the Client-Server paradigm, and the fans are cheering!
I'm afraid you are a little off-mark. This thread was about Windows DNA
and *thin* client development using IE5, DHTML, RDS and other
MicrsoSoft technologies.
But since you raise the fat client issue, Win2000 has a revamped
Installer that makes automatic network installation, repair and
upgrade of client apps so easy and versatile it takes away a lot of
the reasons to develop so called Java thin-clients -- a Java applet
may be one of the fattest clients you can find, with above 20 MB RAM
usage including the browser, and well above of 1 MB of
downloadable code each time the client starts.
Anybody who deploys Java applets must be considering several schemes
to install part of the client in the user's workstation, be it CAB files,
PVCj or Marimba/Castanet. Windows 2000 Installer is just that.
Best regards
Javier Borrajo
www.tid.es
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