When should you build a web application vs. a thick client?

Question

I would like to hear other people\'s advice on when one should build a web application versus building a thick client.

Over the last few years, I have participated in se

Answer 1

Things I remember from the bad old days of deploying internal applications that weren't web-based: There was always a minimum of one computer that was set up so differntly that the upgrade wouldn't work. Sometimes more and the problem was different for each machine that wouldn't work. There was always a user who refused to install the upgrade until forced to by management (usually several weeks or months later). This ended up causing problems in the data at times becasue new businesss rules were not enforced.