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Foil 44 Relationship between Current Commercial and World Wide Web Technologies

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Commercial communication and office automation technologies are in many ways far superior to those in WWW but:
The Web technologies are open and have the huge and expanding Internet/NII marketplace. Thus they will set standards and define services which existing and new commercial software and hardware must be consistent with
  • For instance current closed multimedia authoring systems such as Macromedia Director must be made Web ready
  • Persuasion (used in these foils) must allow one to access URL's for material to be placed in them
    • This will enable applications where pictures and designs are made using Internet material and posted on the Internet for further processing.
    • For instance one can design Wallpaper using Internet Images and then transmit to a computer controlled Wallpaper machine placed next to a FEDEX delivery service .....
  • As another example, we see Lotus Notes as potentially a very interesting WWW service development toolkit



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