And notice that in the model Paul describes, Oterro being used on a 
web server to serve R:Base data to browsers through Oterro or any 
other front end, is, in fact, working as a Client/Server database.

Bill


On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:42:44 -0400, Ravina, Paul wrote:

>Think of it this way: in a desktop database, you can have your data 
on a
>server, but there are no smarts up there.  Suppose you wanted the 
average
>amount of column X from a table. You would be downloading 
everything from
>that table to your local workstation, and then calculating the average. 




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