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Foil 40 Java as a Server Building Technology

From Java Grande: Role of Java in Large Scale Computations NPACI Summer Institute on Parallel Computing -- August 21 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Tango uses a server written as a Java application
  • requires JDK 1.1 or higher
100% maintenance free and Industry-strength stability
Platform-independent
  • tested on IRIX 5/6, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
  • will also run on Windows'95 (not recommended)
Java for Servers is dominant industry (including Microsoft) development as supports thin clients which are preferred as
  • CIO's can manage software on servers whereas clients are in hands of users
  • Java on client is "grim" (quote from Andreessen from Netscape) due to Microsoft / Netscape battles

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