-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 16:35, Mark Walker wrote: > LOL, I remember those days. "Uh, can you hold on? My computer just > went down." or "you need to fill out form 1203-B, send us $25 and we'll > get you the information you need in six weeks." Just kidding, but > certainly reliability standards and information demands are much higher > these days, aren't they? Which is more reliable, a mainframe where the app and database runs on the host, or an N-tier client-server system where the RDBMS and each tier are created by a different company, and the client is thick and MS Windows? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFv8xNS9HxQb37XmcRAmEFAJ91viT3qgEJNOT2A0nc9kL+xHSRSwCfYwYU fuHBvnxFbV9tptbADVfwPmA= =K7nY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----