It was asked (taking contacts database as a sample), where business logic is there. Peter Sullivan (psu) explained, that in 2-tier (ie. forms client talks direct to d/b), the logic would be in the forms and reports. So you would have a basic contact entry form, this would also be your enquiry form, since you can use it in enquiry mode to query back data using wildcards etc. Then you might have a report definition that produces say mailing list labels in RTF or whatever based on the criteria you select.

It was asked, how rich is the widget set in GNUe. Peter Sullivan (psu) said - rich enough to be useful, not so rich as to make cross-platform difficult - people propose new widgets and the usual response is "how would you implement it in curses (text-only)?" The idea is to have a basic but functional widget set that will work (= degrade) on most UI so that you can write a GNUe Forms Definition completely ignorant of how the display device operates. Nothing to stop people adding their own widgets, e.g. for gantt-bars etc, as long as they recognise that they are abandoning platform-independance.

In hope to clarify phrase "GNUe server", Derek Neighbors (Derek) explained - currently there is no "server" so to speak. The appserver is not fully functional and reports as a server is still heavily beta. By GNU Enterprise server, i need to clarify, that you can do GNUe as an LTSP setup and that is what i mean by a "Server" GNU Enterprise.