the best solutions for their particular needs on an application by application basis. Widely-used, critical, and most modern applications should be deployed in an ACS Information Delivery System. Older applications can often be adjusted to operate in the same mode. These applications benefit from the reliability and portability of the server-centric ACS-IDS. Applications that for some reason are not chosen to be deployed this way may installed locally or in the client-server mode. Personal computers can be used as hybrids to connect to the centralized applications via web browser while continuing to use local applications. Hybrid workstations are an ideal way to continue using existing PCs while seamlessly and easily taking advantage of server-centric computing. Users do not have to learn new techniques, since the programs don’t change. They are no longer tied to any particular workstation since their centralized applications follow them wherever they log in.
