Case Study

An e-commerce company wanted to develop an ordering system that allowed customers to place orders from the Internet, and also allow call center operators to enter and view orders. Because of the large number of call center users, the company realized that a typical two-tiered application would not work well with the number of database connections required to support so many users.

The company already had a reasonable relational database model, so the company needed to decide how to implement and design a three-tiered application. A Windows-only solution was initially considered that used Visual Basic to design the call-center application, MTS for the application server, and Active Server Pages for the Web technology. The company decided, ...

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