About This White Paper
This white paper explains how distributed Web services—built
with software solutions from Borland running on Intel
®
architecture-based hardware—provide truly robust, cost-effective
solutions for today’s dynamic businesses. Borland* Web
services solutions let IT developers create integrated, standards-
based, platform-independent computing environments. Borland
tools make it easy to build distributed solutions that enable
anytime, anywhere access to information and processes. Robust
and scalable Intel architecture supports rich-client computing
that helps employees, partners and customers work more
productively. Desktops, notebooks, pocket PCs and handheld
devices powered by Intel
®
processors provide the resources they
need for the office, at home or on the road.
Overcome Integration Challenges
to Productivity
Lack of interoperability is a critical bottleneck for many hetero-
geneous networks, which is why HTML and browser-based
interfaces have become so popular. But browser-based
networking, while easy to use and integrate, is limited and
clumsy when it comes to transforming raw data into meaningful
reports, analyses and strategies. That means instead of
answering questions or solving problems, users spend their time
hunting for the information they need and figuring out how to
copy it into their conventional desktop applications.
IT developers face the challenge of integrating a jumble of
business applications, proprietary architectures and user devices.
To ensure the best ROI, developers need open-standards technolo-
gies that allow them to leverage existing network infrastructure.
And obviously they want to avoid proprietary services that lock
them into a specific vendor or non-standard technologies.
Another IT concern is the user’s computing experience. For
every user, server availability, desktop response and application
ease-of-use all directly affect productivity. And on the road,
mobile users need the ability to work efficiently across the
Internet while accessing network resources secured behind the
corporate firewall. The current generation of tech-savvy users
wants smarter computers that can support anytime, anywhere,
any-platform productivity. Distributed Web services enable IT
developers to give their end users the latest capabilities and meet
expected values of PC performance—whether it’s wireless appli-
cation capabilities, bandwidth optimization, offline execution or
simply an application that works better.
Consider the Big Picture
BORLAND* WEB SERVICES SOLUTIONS
These powerful software development and deployment tools
enable IT developers to leverage their existing infrastructure and
familiar technologies. Standards-supported Borland solutions let
developers quickly and seamlessly unite Windows*, Java* and
Linux* platforms. Considering that “close to half of all new
projects will make use of both Java and .NET* technologies
in the next several years” (Source: Gartner Group, 2001),
cross-platform integration is crucial.
SCALABLE INTEL
®
ARCHITECTURE
Open standards-based, scalable Intel architecture provides an
ideal infrastructure for dynamic, rich-client computing and
distributed Web services solutions. Intel
®
Pentium
®
4, Intel
®
Xeon
™
and Intel
®
Itanium
®
processors enable PCs and other
computing devices to support a wide range of application, data,
multimedia and multitasking processing.
The Intel Pentium 4 processor and the Mobile Intel
®
Pentium
®
4
Processor - M deliver an enriched user experience across
applications and usages. End users can truly appreciate the
productivity benefits of having powerful tools and high-
performance processing right at their fingertips.
Servers built around the Intel Xeon processor family and Intel
Itanium processors offer powerful and cost-effective enterprise
computing solutions. Intel architecture delivers scalable
hardware building blocks, market-tested best-of-breed solutions,
standards-supported manageability and data center-class
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