Greetings,

I think the problem is that some people do not understand the difference between a desktop application and a web-based application. The key difference being where is the processing done, and where does the visual output show up.

A desktop application running under Windows, means the program needs to be written specifically to run on Windows, because the processing and display are on that specific desktop computer. Windows is doing the processing, and Windows is doing the displaying.

A web application is different. The processing is done elsewhere. To install Koha, you are actually installing the thing that does the processing, not what does the displaying, because any* browser on any** computer can view and use Koha.

* there are limitations, but not because of Koha, but rather because some browsers are really awful. ** there are limitations, because to access you actually have to be able to network the server where you installed Koha to the client's computer where the browser is calling from.

Just in case this was the conversation that needed to occur. :)

GPML,
Mark Tompsett
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