Many partners that I'm working with now face with client-server to 3-layers migration challenge. It gets harder in big organizations like banks where developers and other tech staff have grown on mainframes and just recently switched to "newest" client...

Just delivered session on our ".NET Architecture Day for ISV" seminar about Application Server. There are 3 themes chosen to define W2K3 as a application server: Component hosting Activation Transactions support Security State Communication Data access...