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Foil 43 Some Further Topics of Importance

From Overview of Web Technologies for "Programming for the Web" CPS406/606 Fall 97 -- August 25,1997. by Nancy McCracken, Tom Scavo, Geoffrey Fox *
(Prepared for SC96)
Security -- Essential for many banking and shopping applications
  • Also very important to Department of Defense who would add fault tolerance (the system can be guaranteed to work) to classic encryption security technologies
The PC World which has typically better software than UNIX such as:
  • Symantec Cafe and Microsoft Visual J++ as a Java Development Environment
  • Faster Java (Just in Time) Compilers than UNIX
  • Better multimedia support
Specialized services and applications such as collaboration, computing, education, intranets which are built from Java JavaScript Databases etc.
Compression Technologies

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