Things changed very quickly. I was writing a warehouse management app around 2000 and my first version was in Delphi. The sql components did require additional

Things changed very quickly. I was writing a warehouse management app around 2000 and my first version was in Delphi. The sql components did require additional install and libraries. But v2 was in PHP and served over the Internet as that could run with no client install whatsoever- just a browser. It was much easier to manage the dependencies on my side and not worry about customer antivirus blocking the install etc.