Quoting Dave Sherohman (esper at sherohman.org): > I don't see the app serving == web development link you imply, though. Or do > you mean something different by an app server than I think you do? (I'm > thinking of something very similar to an ORB.) In application servers, to me, are chunks of software that run the business logic. You got apache (and others) as your presentation "software". You got MySQL (and others) as your database. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9