Many thanks for the info.

Read the articles. A lot of good stuff in there.

The more I read, the more I contemplate the problem of building and supporting a distributed program alongside an internet development - the more I am realising that its not going to be a straight forward task.

Different code bases and different interfaces - the only similarity would be the database. Ok, so there would be shared classes, just impemented differently :-)

I am going to recommend that we don't develop the distributed application, because of the work involved (development, distribution and support). The data is very dynamic for this application and whoever has a copy of the app will need to be continually updated. We're talking on a global basis!

Anyway many thanks for all your jelp and advice once again.

Could I just ask one last thing - what is your position with West Wind Technologies? I'm sure it will be something that I will be asked when I'm quoting your replies.

Jason