Collaboration SegmentThe Push TechnologyOzgur BalsoyCPS 714 Fall 97 |
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Introduction | |||
Academic community saw the power
of simple HTTP communications, and proposed many extensions to either to
the protocol, browsers, or users' computing environments to turn the one-way
communication between servers and clients to a world of collaboration participating
by millions as early as 1994. Some of these proposals are listed here:
synchronous collaboration between data producers and their consumers." |
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Push Technology | |||
One of the outcomes of the above mentioned proposals and a solution
to synchronous collaboration was the Push
Technology. In this technology, clients initiates a connection to a
push server, and starts to receive a stream of data. However, the difference
is from the traditional search-oriented pull technology is that clients
are not required to visit Web server sites later on, rather information
is pushed to clients' computing environments, and displayed by push
applications. This opened new markets for companies and the competition
began. Microsoft proposed Channel
Definition Format (CDF) in March 1997, and has signed contracts
with more two hundred companies to support its technology. In the opposite
side, a joint submission, the
HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol,
to W3C was
made by Marimba, Netscape, Sun, Novell, and @Home Corp. to set the standarts
and take control of the technology in August 1997.
Nevertheless, not everybody is happy with the new technology, and a discussion has started:
It looks like the discussion will continue while the competition heats up. All we hope is that the winner at the end should the users of the Net. |
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References | |||
synchronous collaboration between data producers and their consumers." |