RE: best o/s survey...someone's missing a few bits...

Didn't "middleware" used to mean software that mediated between a service
requestor and service provider?  Seems to me it was one of the hallowed
buzzwords of the client-server era. IIRC it referred specifically to
software that handled the communication between client and server so that,
theoretically, neither client nor server had to know anything about each
other.

I can see how the concept applies here.  I'm just surprised that it's
survived.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 3:32 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: best o/s survey...someone's missing a few bits...
>
>
> From: Jim Damato <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
> > Obviously the administrators of unixguide.net have
> > read Fortress Rochester and have seen that even
> > Frank Soltis considers OS/400 to be middleware.  I'm
> > sure they'll add SLIC as a choice by Monday.
> >
>
> interesting point, but doesn't even Linux run on top of the hypervisor
> and is thus middleware as well?  :-)
> I think the O/S should be defined as the visible portion of the system
> that programmers and users directly interact with.
>
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