What are the limitations of an application server solution?
All technologies have limitations and application servers have theirs too. Although the vast majority of educational software titles work very well under this model, (ClassLink has tested over 1,000 educational titles, more than any other company in the arena) certain applications are better delivered in a traditional, locally installed manner. Typically video or graphically intensive software is better served locally. So too are applications that require microphone interaction. Performance improvements of graphically intensive software delivered via application servers happens regularly in the industry. We still find the optimal approach to be the ‘hybrid’ approach (see the last question).
