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The Smart Client Opportunity Over the past few years, IT organizations have chosen between two primary application development and deployment architectures: "Thin client" browser-based applications: Easy to deploy and manage centrally but provide a limited user experience "Fat client" architectures: Provide a more productive and responsive user experience and run both online and offline but are difficult and expensive to deploy and update on the desktop However, with the advent of the .NET Framework, there is now a new alternative called "smart clients". Smart client applications provide value for a wide variety of applications by bridging the gap between "fat" and "thin" clients. Smart client applications (as defined by Microsoft) have the following characteristics: Run locally on the desktop using local resources, applications, and peripheral devices Can be used o... (more)