Understanding .NET Remoting
Around the year my youngest son was born—about 1996—I was working on a big project in Chicago. The problem was to manage information related to tracking labor in North America, which included Canada and Mexico. If you recall, around that time we had whopping speeds of 9,600 baud on dial-up connections. Our applications had to process huge amounts of data through tiny connections over wide areas.
The application was to be implemented in Delphi, C, and DB2. At that time C was used for stored procedures, IBM's Universal database was still called DB2, and there were no ODBC drivers for DB2. We had to write everything: stored procedures in C, client software for Windows, server software, and connections to DB2 servers using ...
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