Although it may be tough, solving the networked real-time challenge is critical. This challenge is addressed by middleware. So, what makes middleware real time? The easy answer would be that ...

Need to distribute mainframe data to all those folks on local area networks? It's a problem many state and local government MIS departments are facing as information access becomes a priority. A few ...

Both remedy proposals frequently reference middleware and middleware products. Since middleware is a complex topic that's key to the case, both proposals attempt to define middleware. Generally, ...

"Middleware is hard to define," said Jon Callas, CTO, CSO of the PGP Corporation, "and I'm sure that there are people who would gladly describe one system as middleware, while other people would ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...