ACM SIGMOD Record · 1998 · 13 citations · 0 references
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A new menagerie of middleware is emerging. These products promise great flexibility in partitioning enterprise applications across the diverse corporate computing landscape. What factors should you consider when choosing a solution, and how do current products stack up? More important to the focus of this article, what role should Web servers play?