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Foil 53 What is WebWindows ?

From Challenges and Opportunities for Information Technology in ECS ECS Faculty Retreat -- 15 October 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Like UNIX or MS-DOS or Windows 3.1(NT,95), WebWindows is an operating system for a "computer"
The "computer" is a metacomputer consisting of the 50,000 Webservers (currently--eventually hundreds of millions) on Internet for the World Wide Web
WebWindows can also be used for the metacomputer (collection of heterogeneous networked computers) which is a business enterprise system
  • We consider such an application as a collection of Webservers where we use Web technology to manage business information system.
  • suprisingly many companies looking at Web as alternative to Lotus Notes
WebWindows is a multi-client multi-server technology
  • Clients are Mosaic or Netscape and soon HotJava or better browsers
  • Servers are NCSA compatible HTTP servers with MUCH additional functionality coming from so-called CGI capability -- written in PERL or C++ typically
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