Although it may be tough, solving the networked real-time challenge is critical. This challenge is addressed by middleware. So, what makes middleware real time? The easy answer would be that ...

Need to distribute mainframe data to all those folks on local area networks? It's a problem many state and local government MIS departments are facing as information access becomes a priority. A few ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, as organizations went from having one computer to two computers to many computers, they faced the challenge of connecting the different hardware and software components.

A common punchline is that middle children are often overlooked when compared to their oldest and youngest siblings. In the world of software-defined vehicles and rapidly advancing adjacent industries ...

The list of distributed real-time applications is long. It includes military systems, financial trading, telecommunications, factory automation, traffic control, medical imaging, and more. Each of ...