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Very common middleware alternatives were CORBA [1], Java-RMI [2] or DCOM [3]. Within these alternatives, CORBA was platform and language independent. Java-RMI was platform-independent and DCOM was used mainly in Microsoft platforms. 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM (www.crm.ms) The benefit to implementing a solution like Microsoft Dynamics CRM is that it integrates nicely with other Microsoft solutions such as Office and SharePoint. As a result, you get a consistent user experience across multiple Microsoft platforms. Dynamics is also easy to use and has powerful reporting capabilities that integrate with Microsoft Excel. Dynamics also backs up its software with a service-level agreement (SLA) that promises 99.9 percent uptime, which is more than what memy of the other CRM providers offer. 

Fifteen years ago, most of the computational chemistry software was designed to run on expensive mainframes, minicomputers, and workstations. More recently, with the increasing speed and declining price of computer chips, a desktop PC or a laptop computer has become an adequate platform for many calculations. To run software on your machine, you must be aware of which versions of computer operating system (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, UNIX, Linux) are compatible with a particular program. 

II. Product Summaries Schrodinger provides its FirstDiscovery software suite to address and aid in the discovery process in industry. First Discovery runs under Unix and Linux and it includes several programs Glide, Jaguar, Liaison, LigPrep, MacroModel, Maestro, Mopac 2002, pKa predictor, Phase, Prime, QikPro, Qsite, and Strike. For the Microsoft Windows platform Schrodinger offers CAChe, BioMedCAChe, ChemFrontier, MaterialsExplorer, QikPro, Titan, and WinMOPAC. 

While the overall development used a Windows application programming interface, incompatibilities exist across platforms (Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X). For this reason, we opted to use a more standardized interface using HTML that would be more accessible, at the cost of a few features (pairing text to certain times in the videos and full-screen video). Aside from these two features, the HTML interface is identical to the enhanced interface, using the same color scheme and layout and containing the same content. 

The last horizontal application to be discussed here is the database. Although most of the desktop applications include a database, another class of database software exists—the database server. The responsibility of this software is to manage all databases on a network in a central location. The application software on the user desktop can then access this database. Database servers are not used in and of themselves they are often the platforms on which other systems, particularly vertical market systems, are built. The advantage of using database servers is that the server generally resides on a powerful computer, giving users fast access to the data they need. Some of the most popular database servers on the market include Oracle , Microsoft SQL Server , and IBM DB2 . 

Regardless of IBM s interest, Microsoft continued on its own with its development of the GUI— which it named Windows after its rectangular work areas— and released the first version to the market in 1985. Apple filed a lawsuit soon after, claiming that the Microsoft GUI had been built using Apple technology, but the suit was dismissed. Apple s Macintosh and Microsoft s DOS-with-Win-dows combo have both continued to evolve, but until a recent deal between Apple and Microsoft, tensions have always been high. Mac and PC users, of course, still remain adamantly chauvinistic about their respective platforms. 

As a technician, you will quickly realize that this is very good for you Because of Microsoft s standardization of a single graphical interface for all of its operating systems, most basic tasks are accomplished in identical fashion on everything from a Windows 95 workstation computer to a Windows 2000 Advanced Server computer. Also, while the tools that are used often vary between Windows 98 and 2000, the way you use those tools remains remarkably consistent across platforms. 

Multimedia Manager for Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, Eighth Edition A Microsoft PowerPoint Link Tool. The Multimedia Manager is a digital library and presentation, dual-platform CD-ROM. Included is a library of resources valuable to instructors, such as text art and tables, in a variety of e-formats that are easily exported into other software packages. You can also customize your own presentation by importing your personal lecture slides or other material you choose. 

The solution presented here is based on CORBA [877], a wide-spread and mature middleware platform. CORBA provides direct support for a multitude of service management aspects in distributed systems [262]. Furthermore, there are many stable implementations. Thus, a first step was the selection of an appropriate CORBA implementation, based on an evaluation of the runtime characteristics (see Subsect. 4.2.3). For an a-posteriori integration of non-CORBA-based tools (e.g. those which were designed for Microsoft Windows) with the CORBA infrastructure, Microsoft s COM/DCOM [847] interface is used and wrappers were developed to integrated those technologies (see Subsect. 4.2.4). 

CHEOPS is developed using C++ first under Unix, then under Microsoft Windows. However, certain components, in particular the tool wrappers, can be developed using other programming languages (e.g., Python, Fortran) even under different platforms. An inherent feature of CHEOPS is the support of inter-platform communication between the components using CORBA middleware. For instance, the tool and the corresponding wrapper component can run on a software platform other than Windows. 

Operating system. If available, we recommend to use a Linux/UNIX system for the analysis. Also Mac OS X, in principle a full-featured UNIX system, is an adaequate platform. Alternatively, RNAz can also be run on Microsoft Windows. Most of the methods described in this chapter can be carried out on Windows without any modification. 

The two major enterprise development platforms Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .Net are supporting this kind of software architecture. They can be seen as a stack of common services, like relational database access, messaging, enterprise components, or support for web services, that each platform provides to their applications. With this knowledge in the back of one s mind, the question which platform to use can be answered based on the expertise of the team members, their preferences, and based on the existing hardware and software infrastructure. 

Microsoft, Oracle, and Linux are software platforms that provide scalable environments. Microsoft Access is a widely used data entry platform where tables with pull-down entries can be created. The data storage element at the back-end requires Microsoft SQL or a comparable system to provide reliable and secure back-up and data storage. The systems should allow for dynamic error detection notification at data entry, construction of computer forms that mimic hardcopy forms, and data lookup capabilities for subject information. A web-based data entry format allows for integration of geographically separate sites. An inventory system for the repository should be incorporated into the electronic database. A data dictionary should be part of the protocol (7). 

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