I am writing a little app that will be distributed to my client's customers.
It will contain a database of names addresses and other info, etc, and we
want to customers to be able to enter a few search criteria and for the app
to bounce back the results of their search. Pretty simple stuff.

I have seen similar apps that use HTML/browser technology, allowing users to
run the app no matter what platform they are using (many of their customers
use Macs).

I haven't done much with VB outside of building a Standard EXE apps. Is this
the sort of thing I could do in VB (using Active-X or whatever) or will I
need to look at Java?  Where would I go to research this?

Thanks.

Peter Busch