Why a Distributed Database Application System?
Distributed computing is becoming more prevalent, thanks to the Internet and the proliferation of cheap PCs. It’s no secret that the Internet is changing our lives. One interesting side effect of everyone’s great interest in the Internet is the amount of computing power that now sits mostly idle, waiting for someone to click on a Web page or strike a key. Furthermore, never before has it been possible to acquire so much computer for so little price. With the network gluing all these machines together, it’s now possible and important to consider distributing problems across multiple heterogeneous computers. Database application development is by nature distributed, and almost all companies and organizations have a need for database access. A database is something you want to share. The number of people and organizations you may want to share it with may vary, but chances are the information needs to move across and be accessed by multiple systems. Even if you’re implementing a two-tiere
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