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[email protected] www.capv.com/dss OFFICE 2000 & RICH CLIENTS Editorial Director: Frank Gilbane
[email protected] (781) 871.9000 Before browsers came along there were two types of clients: general-purpose desktop applications, typically office suites, and Associate Editors: Michelle Berrong specialized proprietary clients. Office suites had more popular
[email protected] interfaces, but proprietary clients had a lock on much of the mission (781) 871.9000 Mike Maziarka critical information. As a result, most "client/server" applications
[email protected] depended on proprietary clients. Browsers came along and (781) 871.9000 dramatically changed the dynamics by becoming the new client of Bill Trippe (781) 979.0281 choice for client/server applications. Browsers were "thin" (at first)
[email protected] and designed for presenting HTML, a poor kind of information. Now Subscriptions: XML has the potential to open up access to "rich" information, not Nancy Chaponis just to browsers, but to all kinds of clients.
[email protected] (781) 871.9000 The upcoming release of Microsoft's Office 2000 signals the start of Reprints & volume a substantial shift in how we use will be integrating desktop clients discounts: Linda Gagne in corporate applications. It now begins to make sense to consider
[email protected] an office suite application as a true client for more mission critical (781) 871.9000 corporate applications Why? Because the new Office 2000 peer Production: encoding HTML/XML format makes it possible to build solutions that Tracey O'Neill roundtrip some rich XML information.