Chapter 1. A Multi-Vendor Standard for Distributed Enterprise Applications
This book is about business and computing, and about the success of a new standard for business computing in the networked economy.
At its core, business is about relationships and transactions. Business computing is also about relationships and transactions. While they may seem distinct, the meanings are complementary. Business relationships are about customers, vendors, and the products and services they buy or sell—the kind of information that relationships in a computer database are designed to track. Transactions in business are about the exchange of monetary value, goods, and services. These are the same processes that transactions on a computer database must perform ...
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