Basic HTML version of Foils prepared Sept 12 97
| 1 | The universal adoption of JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) and the growing convenience of web-linked databases could imply a growing importance of systems that link large scale commercial databases with HPCC computing resources |
| 2 | Javabeans, RMI, COM, CORBA, IIOP form the basis of the emerging "pragmatic object web" which analogously to the previous bullet could encourage a growing use of modern object technology which will allow better managed distributed systems |
| 3 | Emerging collaboration and other distributed information systems could allow new (low end) distributed work paradigms which can be used in computational steering and for basic scientific research |