Now consider the Internet. Although the Internet is shrouded with mystery for many people, it is really just a large client/server network. It has a front end (user interface), a middle layer (application or data server), and a back end (data) -- all the usual elements you think of when talking about client/server.
Although many assume that Internet technology is complex, it doesn't have to be. For instance, you don't have to use a browser to deploy your applications on the Internet, though this is a common method. You don't even have to go through the World Wide Web. You don't have to have an HTML front-end for your application, either. You can have a Windows client running your ACUCOBOL-GT application as usual, with your data on a remote server, accessible over the Internet. AcuServer can give your users access to your Vision, relative, or sequential data and object files over the Internet as well as over a smaller network. That's because the Internet is simply a TCP/IP based network, and AcuServer uses TCP/IP. (Remember, TCP/IP stands for transmission control protocol/Internet protocol.)
Acucorp on the Internet: Option 1
If you want users to access your application on a remote server via a Web browser, you can do this as well using one of the other options described in "Choosing a Deployment Method ". You can set up the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime as an Internet helper application or viewer, you can use the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in runtime, or you can use the common gateway interface (CGI) to execute parts of your applications on a Web server.