Okuno@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno) (07/23/87)
I'd like to know whether TCP/IP is really used for business applications or distributed processings. Or is it used only for computational environments (Telnet, FTP, SMTP, NSF, windows)? Any information or pointer is welcome. Thanks in advance, - Gitchang - -------
leiner@riacs.EDU (07/27/87)
A bit of a strange question, in my opinion. Fact 1. Much of what scientists do on a daily basis is use business functions (e.g. word processing, etc.) and often access remote machines to do this. Fact 2. TCP/IP is the underpinning of much of the scientific networking environment. Did you mean, perhaps, "Do people in a business environment (rather than a scientific or engineering environment) use TCP/IP?" Barry ----------
Okuno@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno) (07/27/87)
Barry, > Did you mean, perhaps, "Do people in a business environment (rather than > a scientific or engineering environment) use TCP/IP?" I want to know whether TCP/IP is used in applications such as banking system, car registration system, information retrieval system or other database management system (centralized or distributed). The ARPA Internet, X25Net of CSNET, and NSFNet use TCP/IP but support only Telnet, FTP, SMTP or Finger. Some campus networks support network window or network file systems. Whois may be a kind of network database retrieval system. However, I don't know other higher level or large-scale applications. Mike O'dell, maximo!mo@seismo.CSS.GOV, told me that the system for the Bank of Milan in Italy was the best example. Is there any example in this country? Regards, - Gitchang - -------
eric@hippo.UUCP (Eric Bergan) (07/28/87)
In article <12321742542.23.OKUNO@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU>, Okuno@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno) writes: > I want to know whether TCP/IP is used in applications such as banking > system, car registration system, information retrieval system or other > database management system (centralized or distributed). At Johns Hopkins Hospital, we used TCP/IP to implement a wide range of distributed database applications, including patient identification, scheduling, radiology film tracking, radiology report transcription and retrieval, etc. For all of the distributed pieces, we used Sun's RPC protocol. -- eric ...!ptsfa!hippo!eric
bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (07/30/87)
We are currently installing an ACC TCP/IP interface on the (purely) Administrative IBM3090 here at BU, they have also installed a Sun system. The CLA Dean's office is currently using a SUN3/180 and several diskless clients (that's TCP packets like all getout) and are moving their databases (which have been Unix based for many years) to that system. Several other departments are doing compatible things like that. The goal is to distribute the management of registration, grant and other information campus-wide via TCP/IP in the near future. I doubt they would at this time even consider anything other than TCP for their applications which (using typically the Ingres and Adabas(e?) data base systems) relies upon the heterogenous network to make accessible IBM/MVS, IBM/VM, Suns, Vax/VMS and other systems (Macintoshes via Kinetics boxes if I can ever finish reading my mail.) Boston University is generally considered to be within the United States of America and although you might write us off as academia you might want to consider the business involved in running a private university of over 25,000 students. We're probably a bigger business than you are (probably approaching Fortune 500, I dunno, never thought of it that way.) So there. -Barry Shein, Boston University