GREEN=global GREY=local HTML version of Foils prepared July 29,1995 Foil 57 What is WebWindows ?
From Technologies and Issues for Virtual University HPDC95 Tutorial Pentagon City -- August 1 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color GIF
- 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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