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In theory, does a network application generally have a 'server' application which all the 'client' apps access via sockets?

Would a 'client' only application which accesses a common database be considered a network app?

This is just something I was thinking about tonight as I'm beginning to get more into application dev vs. web dev.

I suppose one could say that a network application is anything that sends or receives information over a network, but I'm trying ask the question in the context with "good programming practices" in mind.

The purpose of the application would be to have multiple users read/write data to a db.