Is Caliber Web-Based? The short answer is… Yes and No. All Reef Point Technology products are offered as a web-hosted solution (ASP version) and a client/server solution (Enterprise version). This provides the maximum degree of flexibility for customers based on their size, their network infrastructure and support capabilities, and cost. What is “Web-based”? The term “web-based” means different things to different people, although the generally accepted definition refers to products that you only need a web browser to use. Using a web browser implies the product is hosted by the software provider and accessed across the Internet, where customers usually pay a periodic subscription fee, or a fee based on usage. But this is not the only case; “web-based” doesn’t necessarily mean “web browser based”. In fact with .NET technology, standard Windows applications can access web servers just like web browsers do, but also provide the power and features of Windows applications that aren’t available with web browsers, like drag-and-drop, and Microsoft Office integration. Likewise, “web-based” doesn’t necessarily mean customers are connecting to the software providers’ hosted web servers and paying periodic fees. Customers could install a “web-based” application on their own web server and have users connect via the Intranet (internal only). So in reality, the question “is Caliber web-based?” should be asked in two questions:      1.  Does Caliber run on Reef Point’s web servers, and      2.  Is Caliber web browser based? This leads us back to our short answer: Yes and no. Yes: Caliber can run on Reef Point’s web servers, but it can also run on your own servers. So if you don’t want your data residing on someone else’s servers then Caliber Enterprise is the way to go. But if you don’t have the network support to manage your own servers, then Caliber ASP is the right option. No: Caliber is not web browser based. Caliber Desktop, Caliber Tablet, and Caliber Mobile, which are software components of Caliber, are all .NET, Windows client applications that can connect to the server using web services, or in the case of Caliber Desktop, it can be also configured to connect directly to the database without the use of a web server. This enables users to enjoy the more powerful Windows client environment and still connect from anywhere across the Internet.