>>OK I'm an IT exec that needs some education. I thought, until I read this thread that I understood what the true meaning of client/server was. According to my definition using a browser based front end has very little to do with whether or not an app is client/server - its rather like comparing Visual Basic to say a hard drive?For the education of us all please explain why Browser based apps can not be C/S
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>Client/server is a very broad term. I think VFP/VB types would general define this term to be a VB/VFP/VC++ fat client access an Oracle/SQL Server database server. But it really is a general term. A browser is a thin client... or more accurately hosts thin clients. It can host java applets, VBScript, Javascript, HTML forms that interact with server "things" (COM objects, access tables, DBFs...). People seem to generally build these sorts of apps with 3 or more tiers and call them "n-tier" rather than client server.

Exactly. I don't know why everyone got so confused. I though the distinction between client/server and thin client apps was pretty clear!