>>1. One day your boss/director/client will plop one of these thingys down on your desk and say "I want to connect to your database with this".

>Another great reason for us to move to n-tier design.

Exactly. Any device that that has a browser has my respect because it fits in with n-tier design.

I keep expecting a device to come out that is only a browser... no OS, just a browser running on hardware.