Summary

• Need for distribution
• Some of the issues involved
• Some of the problems involved
• Components combined together to construct a system
• Components can be on the same machine or distributed
• Components can come from different vendors and need to work together efficiently (aka interoperate
• Components can be on different kinds of computer systems such as:
  • Mainframes
  • Intel based PCs
  • Workstations from Silicon Graphics or Sun
  • Laptops or palmtop machines (such as Psion or Texas Instruments) etc
• Components can be run on different operating systems such as:
  • Solaris (Unix)
  • Windows NT
  • MacOS etc
• Components must be able to be well knit to ensure that the resulting solution is adequate