Chapter 14. Distributed Objects and the Enterprise

In the past several years, the term enterprise computing has become a major part of the information technology lexicon. Today, much of the major development in the area of IT technology is that of enterprise computing. But what does enterprise computing actually mean?

Perhaps the most basic definition of enterprise computing is that it's essentially distributed computing. Distributed computing is just what the name implies, a distributed group of computers working together over a network. In this context, a network can be a proprietary network or the Internet.

The power of distributed computing is that computers can share the work. In a truly distributed environment, you do not even need to ...

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