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Thin to Win?

By Adam Jaffe
December 01, 2003

In the late 1990s it was quite obvious the way application development was headed. There was a huge push for every new application to be Web-based. Visions of fully integrated portals danced in technology managers' heads. ROI calculations showing significant savings in administration costs, and benefits in productivity abounded.

While a good number of legal technology vendors have fully embraced the “thin” client, the so-called “fat” client-server based applications are still very much a part of the legal technology landscape. Where do we stand today? Are the promises of Web-based applications coming to fruition? Are there good reasons to stay with client-server applications?

This article will present a brief overview of Web-based and client server applications and then provide some factors that can assist an organization in choosing between the two. It is hoped that this article will help dispel the modern myth that the Web is always better and provide guidance in your system selection process.

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