Helen, again... excellent! Thanks very much! -Gary

--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> At 11:38 PM 19/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >As you correctly point out, the app will have to load across the
wire
> >every time it is loaded. The problem I have with that is our target
> >environment: a mix of 100 MBps, 10 Mbps and WAN. The WAN can be as
> >slow as dial-up. So loading the app across the WAN will simply not
be
> >a workable solution.
>
> Not just that: WAN clients via dialup won't be a "goer" with
> client/server, except possibly for occasional one-way traffic (e.g.
to
> peform a daily batch upload, download, replication, etc.) Without
SSH
> tunnelling, it's also inherently insecure. For interactive WAN
clients,
> n-tier is the only workable option.
>
> heLen