Title :
Challenges facing the TP industry
Author_Institution :
Skylight Software Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper discusses the challenges facing the transaction processing (TP) industry from a corporate customer´s perspective. It compares and contrasts the approaches taken by the TP-heavy camp (traditional TP vendors with mainframe or minicomputer background), and the TP-light industry (DOS/Windows/UNIX database and client/server tool companies). It highlights the weaknesses of TP monitors for open systems and discusses the architectural flaws of OSF´s DCE technology which might prevent DCE from becoming a widely accepted standard.<>
Keywords :
DP industry; distributed processing; microcomputer applications; open systems; transaction processing; DCE; MS-DOS; Microsoft Windows; OSF; UNIX; client/server tools; corporate customer; databases; distributed computing environment; mainframe; minicomputer; object oriented technology; open systems; standard; transaction processing industry; transaction processing monitors; Availability; Companies; Industrial economics; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Microcomputers; Mission critical systems; Object oriented databases; Open systems; Transaction databases;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5380-9
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282921
