What does "middle tier" mean?

[Terrence Brannon]

On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 11:59 AM, Rob Nagler wrote:
> I argue strongly against storing state in
> the middle tier, which adds complexity.  The same argument applies to
> stored procedures.  Databases are good at storing data, not executing
> code.


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