Hi
Strange! To give up the power and responsiveness of a desktop application for WEB pages seems a bad decision to me, specially for an intranet with not so many users and good server.
If this is the future, then what about 'no touch deployment' in .NET (rich client with the Internet serving as transport mechanism) ?

This guy I believe is right:
http://www.pantos.org/atw/perspectives/0203.html



>Hi,
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>This morning I had to hear yet another reason why everybody should migrate to dotNET.
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>Deployment.
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>Deployment? Yes! There is a new corporate decision in one of my clients that no software (i.e. applications) should be installed in a user's PC.
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>I argued that *all* my applications don't reside in user's PCs and that there is no install routines whatsoever in order for a user to use *any* of my applications (all .exe reside in specific server's directories, and .ini files and dbfs as well). All that should be done is to create a shortcut in user's PC desktop to start the program and, if that's the case, configure an ODBC connection if the app needs to access an SQL backend. Aha!!! so you *must* install something in a user's PC!
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>I also presented the WTS option. NO! All should be done via "web" access (i.e. using a browser) and *all* apps should be web applications, accessed by and running under a browser, and... it should be developed in dotNET!
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>That's all.
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>Thanks for your time reading this message
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>Fernando