Robert Familiar

For the business world, one of the most exciting promises of the information age is the opportunity to provide employees with access to information and the tools to act on that information whenever and wherever they need to. To a certain extent, that promise has already been achieved - today, most businesspeople work on PCs that provide access to information, applications, and resources far beyond the boundaries of their local machine. There are limits, however. Today's Internet model for information and application distribution assumes access to a network connection, but ubiquitous Web connectivity still lies in the future. And some computing tasks require robust functionality that can only be provided efficiently by "rich" client applications that reside on the local computer. So a challenge arises when your organization requires both the flexibility and immediacy ... (more)