General Comments on DRM Architecture
We have two major comments on overall architecture
Firstly it does not appear to include some commodity services such as collaboration, training, consultant interactions, (commodity) database, “personal web server”
Secondly it suggests a uniform architecture whereas we suggest designing for a hierarchical system supporting different protocols, performances and capabilities at each level or tier (terminology used later)
- We suggest such a multi-tier architecture has significantly more flexibility and lower cost (in development and maintenance) as it enables commodity and HPCC systems to co-exist
- We assume users want a mix of HPCC and commodity services which are often linked in a single session