If you want local users to be able to launch remote applications over the Internet--exclusive of the World Wide Web and browsers--you can use Acucorp's remote application server, AcuConnect, to accomplish your goal. In this situation, you embed simple COBOL CALLs into a client application and use a configuration file on the client to specify the Internet address of the remote application. Then, when your customers or users run the application on their local machine, AcuConnect automatically CALLs the remote application and runs it on the server. You can combine this option with Option 1 to provide remote file access as well.