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Original Post: Re: Mike Sanders Wants More Browser Apps
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2003 ( INFOWORLD ) - Web applications rule the enterprise. That's the indisputable conclusion to be drawn from this year's InfoWorld Programming Survey. Despite directives from Microsoft Corp. and others that developers abandon server-based HTML applications for fat desktop clients, the ease of "zero deployment" through the browser continues to win the day.
Only a fool what count Microsoft out. But only a fool would ignore what businesses are proclaiming loudly from their desktops - we want more browser apps now
Did anyone stop and ask what the users of those apps might want? All I have is anecdotal evidence, but it comes up pretty heavily against browser based applications. In my experience, people don't really like them. Of course, they don't really like the supposedly "rich" client apps they get from their IS groups either. Either way, user information would be very useful here - there's clearly business value in thin client applications - the question should be whether or not there's user productivity
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