> If you should find any research re: client-server vs. file-server
 > based systems, I would be VERY interested. I have been involved in
 > projects to develop PW applications for my state agency. The word
 > from the mountain (IS) is that we should move to Powerbuilder as
 > we are building a WAN and an Informix central database. The
 > question is, assuming we move to client-server, should we do any
 > more development in PW? Critical factors are robustness of the
 > application, development time, and of course cost. Delphi also
 > came up in the discussion.
 >
 > To bring this back to your discussion, I would also be interested
 > in whether the move to client server is actually paying off, and
 > for whom.
Good questions.  What I understood Borland to be saying is that Paradox makes 
a good Client in a client-server setting (and if you need a good server, they 
wouldn't mind if you bought Interbase), and that with a reasonable amount of 
forethought, it is possible to design file-server applications in Paradox 
that can be migrated to client-server in a relatively seamless fashion.
Rich
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