1.1. Benefits of Distributed Computing
The 1980s slogan of Sun Microsystems, Inc., “The Network is the Computer™,” seems truly prophetic in light of the changes in the Internet and intranets over the last several years. By early in the new millennium, a large class of computational devices—from desktop machines to small appliances and portable devices—will be network-enabled. This trend not only impacts the way we use computers, but also changes the way we create applications for them: distributed applications are becoming the natural way to build software. “Distributed computing” is all about designing and building applications as a set of processes that are distributed across a network of machines and work together as an ensemble to solve a ...
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