>Hi:
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>I have an client\server application that needs to be migrated to the web. The system was years in the making and offers a lot of functionality and does a lot MS Office Automation. It also has its own mail client and a client side data store to house static data.
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>My orignial plan was to maintain the existing front end by doing a fat client web app using XML messaging and Web Services. Now they are saying it needs to be Thin client. I doubt whether an HTML interface can ever be as useful a full blown Windows app, espcially in this case. Also, can you do MS Office Automation from an app running in a browser?
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>Thanx,
>Charlie

A browser based app and a Thin Client are not the same thing... are you saying you want to develop a system that is coded in HTML (ASP, etc) and has a browser for display, or are you going to use a Thin Client solution like Terminal Server, etc?