How is Xess network-enabled?
With Xess systems, the spreadsheet user interface, functional components built with the Xess Connections API, and integrated access to external data sources can be on different computers, even on different continents – yet appearing as a unified system to the end-user. For example, you could have the Xess spreadsheet component running on HP seamlessly connected to a Process Control data server on Alpha Unix via an Xess Connection program which is running on Alpha Unix. This Connection program can be serving the HP spreadsheet with real-time process control data. The same Connection program on Solaris could also provide specialized @-functions to the HP spreadsheet which are unique for the application that are not in the base spreadsheet. Xess is also network-enabled in its acccessability. You can have a single copy of the Xess spreadsheet installed on a server machine which can be accessed by any number of end-user workstation on the network.
