EYE ON HARDWARE DIRECTIONS: PCS, NCS, SERVERS AND PLATFORM INDEPENDENCE

As we move into the Information Age, the Internet will be the dominant shaper of future operating systems, applications, and hardware standards to support it. Development leaders in the information technology industry are focused on extending solution capabilities to include the Internet demands and move closer to global network logic needs that support platform independence. Network computing (NC) continues its headway into the architecture/engineering/construction community, offering interoperable, platform-independent "thin client" operating platforms and Internet-enabled computing devices that exploit the network environment. The driving trend continues to be the use of advanced technology servers and standards and methods for simplifying the computing environment. They are being used to distribute business information while managing networks, security, processing, and communication issues such as enterprisewide faxing, printing, and messaging operations as shown by recent advancements of software and hardware developers.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Included in a special advertising section, "Computers," to this journal issue.
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  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

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• Publication Date: 1998-6-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. C14
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 240
  • Issue Number: 22
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer networks; Computer programs; Computers; Construction industry; Information dissemination; Information management; Internet; Personal computers; Technological innovations
• Old TRIS Terms: Computer systems hardware; Computer systems programs; Platform independence
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Data and Information Technology; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00751284
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 1998 12:00AM