Abstract: |
Critical success factors of business applications are high availability, good performance and low total cost of ownership. Up to now, the first two factors are at odds with the third one, because systems with good performance and high availability are implemented on high-performance computer systems with redundant components. Nowadays, performance and availability requirements can also be reached through distributed and shared resources in the Internet, as many commercial and semi-commercial applications show. In the keynote a generalised architecture of a server platform will be discussed which meets the critical success factors mentioned above. It is based on agent, P2P and web services technologies. The main ideas of the platform will be demonstrated with examples from mobile commerce and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) applications. |
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