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Re: SAP R/3 and object orientation / CORBA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Van der pas)
Sat Jun 10 02:07:28 1995
To: sapr3-news@MIT.EDU
Date: 10 Jun 1995 02:37:12 GMT
From: XXDB64A@prodigy.com (Peter Van der pas)
I am no programmer, but it seems to me from a functional point of view
that SAP took a very realistic view of client/server by not going to an
object oriented structure. They have optimized performance for very
large world-wide implementations by centralizing data storage and by
running applications on mega-memory servers in close proximity to the
data servers. Wether the clients are near or far is of little concern
because not much data is traveling from point to point -- it's all moving
in one central location.
In a distributed and object oriented environment, how do you control the
amount of data that moving between remote locations -- potentially
choking even current standards of high band width? How do you implement
consolidated reporting when all of the data is distributed in objects
located anywhere in the world? It may be easier to program and more
felxible to modify, but how do you collect all the pieces when you need
to see the big picture?
-- Peter van der Pas
The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, but I have noone else
to blame.........
