What does interoperability mean to your customers?
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Interoperability means that a particular product works with other vendors, usually because of an open standard (like XML) or a de facto standard (like Java).\n\nOf the answers you gave, C is most reasonable.
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It's helpful for keeping business logic in a single remote location. If you created a desktop application that made use of a webservice, you'd fully separate your presentation layer from your business logic layer. Changing the business logic in your web service would have the effect of changing the application for all users without the need to update each user's application.
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Performance and availability issues, as they relate to scalability. \n\nWhat are you Requirements are they relate to  \n\nResponse time\nThroughput\nData availability / Operating schedule \nCapacity\n\nConcurrency
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It's an expansion of the client-sever concept:\nOfr example, you can have a data layer, then a business rules layer, and finally a GUI layer.
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'Usability' refers to how easily a user can use a device, website, or piece of software, etc.  This includes accessibility for those who are handicapped, ease of navigation, load time, page flow, etc.  There are gobs of information on the net concerning usability, but that's the skinny.
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It all comes down to compatibility ----
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ISO is a standard that insures the product being made meets quality standard. It also requires the company to document every procedure. What does this mean to you? Nothing. \nIn order for some companies to do business with others they must meet the ISO standards. This is especially true for business dealing with foreign companies. \nFor some boring reading about ISO check out this link.
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An ISP that piggybacks its services off of a third-party provider in order to offer ISP services without the expenses and duties required in providing those services. The virtual ISP does not invest in any network, equipment or backroom/technical support needed to offer ISP services. The third-party provider handles all of the needs of the end user but is invisible to the end user who only sees the virtual ISP. \nFor example: Company A is an online retail bookseller that wants to extend its services to offer its customers ISP services to bring more value to its customers and to create a bigger brand name in the market. However, the company, being a retailer, does not have the resources to branch out into the ISP arena and therefore hires Company B, an existing ISP, to provide the ISP services. Company B creates a branded ISP for Company A so that Company A's customers think that they are getting their ISP services through the bookseller but in reality they are being provided the services by means of Company B, the real ISP, who remains invisible to the end user. In this way, Company A becomes a virtual ISP.
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In order for e-Government to be more attractive to citizens and businesses the ease of access to and use of online sevices must be reconciled with strong personal dataprotection. We need interoperablity between rather than harmonisation of national solutions.\n\nGovernments are facing new challenges from demands regarding security and privacy. Simultaneously demands for an open and communicative information infrastructure have to be met. An open federated approach for Network Identity and Trust Management that would also guarantee privacy and security of the citizen’s information could help the public to gain trust into these systems and finally increase the acceptance for network delivered government services.
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It means that you can operate or use the same service throught different means, such as using a computer game in a windows pc, a mac, and a linux box, and having little to no problems doing so
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It means "application programming interface". We wouldn't use them instead webmasters would use them to put Googles' or Yahoos' maps on their web aites.
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n-tier basically means that you separate...\n\n1) the presentation from the\n2) the business logic from the\n3) data access methods\n\nThis is done 1) for flexibility, 2) modularisation, and 3) scalability.  For example, if you create a web service that access the data base, a COM component that has the business logic, and a desktop app that presents the user information - that's a multi-tier implementation.\n\nThe point is, for example, let's say we decide to upgrade our MySQL database to SQL Server.  How many modules do we have to modify?  1 - just the web service.  Or, if we decide to calcuate interest differently (a business decision), we only have to touch the COM component.\n\nFurthermore, as our company grows, each of these pieces can run on separate platforms, increasing our scalability.
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what does intercast mean? Sorry i did not understand the question.
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Very simple really.\n\nGoods are tangible items that you would sell to your customer (eg. cars, marmalade, chocolate, fridges, furniture, etc)\n\nServices are intangible items you would sell (eg. labour, insurance, money loans, decorating, plumbing, etc).
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It means Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet, it's usualy used with DSL connections.
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One can only functionally position the internet model to the ISO OSI model because basic differences exist such as: \n\nIn the internet protocol suite, a layer represents a reasonable packaging of function. \nThe ISO view, on the other hand, treats layers as rather narrow functional groups, attempting to force modularity by requiring additional layers for additional functions. \n\nIn the TCP/IP protocols, a given protocol can be used by other protocols within the same layer, whereas in the OSI model two separate layers would be defined in such circumstances. Examples of such "horizontal dependencies" are FTP, which uses the same common representation as TELNET on the "application layer," and ICMP, which uses IP for sending its datagrams on the "internetwork" layer. \n\nIn practice, what we are discussing here is the difference between a de jure standard, OSI, and a de facto standard, TCP/IP. The focus in the TCP/IP world is on agreeing on a protocol standard which can be made to work in diverse heterogeneous networks. The focus in the OSI world has always been more on the standard than the implementation of the standard. \n\nEfficiency and feasibility. The OSI norms tend to be prescriptive (for instance the "layer N" must go through "all layers below it"), whereas the TCP/IP protocols are descriptive, and leave a maximum of freedom for the implementers. One of the advantages of the TCP/IP approach is that each particular implementation can use operating system-dependent features, generally resulting in a greater efficiency (fewer CPU cycles, more throughput for similar functions), while still ensuring "interoperability" with other implementations. \nAnother way to see this is that most of the internet protocols have first been developed (coded and tested), before being "described" in an RFC (usually by the implementer) which clearly shows the feasibility of the protocols. \n\n2.14.2 The Internet World and OSI \nThe Department of Defense (DoD), funder of the original ARPANET research, made a statement on OSI in January '88, based on the Government OSI Profile (GOSIP) of April 22, 1987. \n\nThe following is an excerpt from the statement, which is published in RFC 1039 - A DoD Statement on OSI: "... It is intended to adopt the OSI protocols as a full co-standard with the DoD protocols when GOSIP is formally approved as a Federal Information Processing Standard. Two years thereafter, the OSI protocols would become the sole mandatory interoperable protocol suite; however, a capability for interoperation with DoD protocols would be provided for the expected life of systems supporting the DoD protocols. ..." \n\nA lot of study has already been done by the internet world on possible transitions and coexistence of the protocols. The following list is a series of RFCs already issued for that purpose: \n\nRFC 983 - ISO Transport Services on Top of the TCP. \nRFC 1006 - ISO Transport Services on Top of the TCP - Version 3. \nRFC 1039 - A DoD Statement on Open Systems Interconnection Protocols. \nRFC 1069 - Guidelines for the Use of Internet IP Addresses in the ISO Connectionless-Mode Network Protocol. \nRFC 1085 - ISO Presentation Services on Top of the TCP/IP-based Internets. \nRFC 1086 - ISO-TP0 Bridge between TCP and X.25. \nRFC 1090 - SMTP on X.25. \nRFC 1161 - SNMP over OSI. \nRFC 1195 - Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments. \nRFC 1238 - CLNS MIB for Use with Connectionless Network Protocol (ISO 8473) and End System to Intermediate System (ISO 9542). \nRFC 1240 - OSI Connectionless Transport Services on top of UDP: Version 1. \nRFC 1308 - Executive Introduction to Directory Services using the X.500 Protocol. \nRFC 1309 - Technical Overview of Directory Services using the X.500 Protocol. \nRFC 1327 - Mapping between X.400 (1988)/ISO 10021 and RFC 822. \nRFC 1328 - X.400 1988 to 1984 Downgrading. \nRFC 1330 - ESCC X.500/X.400 Tas
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This is an informal title given to web "experience" portals that allow more interactivity for users. Sites that allow you to personalize settings, upload your own files, share files, etc. are examples of Web 2.0. Commercial viability depends completely on the business model you are trying to support. The most pervasive commercial application is to sell advertising space on your interactive website. But I've heard of more creative endeavors that include creating avatars that can actually buy avatar clothing, accessories, designer looks, cars, etc. for real dollars, giving the users the ability to live vicariously through their avatar.