Hi, this is not a spesific technical question but a very general problem. We have two kind of programs we develop for the government:
One for external users to report data, throught internet pages, to the government. Then we use ASP.net.
But for internal users, the employees in the organisation, the users also use forms to save data in a database.
Some of us (developers) are convinced that we will use much less resources by using windows forms
instead of ASP.net for these applications. There is very little use and need of SOA (service oriented arcitecture) in the organisation.
Do anyone have any opinion about this? The data from the employees are used for different kinds of reports, on web.
I hope anyone can help me.
Best regards

Sure WF apps will use less resources, web browsers are fat.  But does that really matter?  You can't buy a computer that can't run a web browser.  ASP.NET apps are popular because the solve the deployment problem, always an issue with a large distributed app.  WF apps are popular because they solve the reliability problem and are more responsive.  In any decent project, the decision would have been made at a very early stage in the design process.  You'd better check that.

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External users are also more used to a browser then a custom application, internal ones could always get education for it. I think its a matter of how complex the application itself is.

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