The Object-Oriented Thought Process, Fourth Edition

Distributed Objects and the Enterprise

A decade or so ago, the term enterprise computing became a major part of the information technology lexicon. Today, much of the major development in the area of IT technology is that of enterprise computing. But what does enterprise computing mean?

Perhaps the most basic definition of enterprise computing is that it’s essentially distributed computing. Distributed computing is just what the name implies, a distributed group of computers working together over a network. In this context, a network can be a proprietary network or the Internet.

The power of distributed computing is that computers can share the work. In a truly distributed environment, you do not even need to know what computer is actually servicing ...