When any new environment opens up potential users are often confronted with the impossibility of trying to understand the new by comparison to the old or whatever they already know. This often leads to misunderstanding or even to miss the key points of what the new world has to offer.
WebSmartWare falls into the category of a new Information Technology (IT) Environment. This short discourse is an attempt to answer the basic question as to what WebSmartWare is and also to position its abilities and value to the user within the IT-world as a whole.
WebSmartWare is a complete service delivery environment operating within the standard internet browser world, which offers remote users full flexibility and speed in a secure manner, and at a most affordable price, lower than most specialists could predict.
Since the 1950s software services have been shared among multiple remote computer users (Ref:). Initially remote computer deployments were immensely expensive; only the wealthiest of organizations could afford them since the linkup between computers was hard wire via intra-organization cabling or leased telephone lines with limited reliability; but the concept continued to be refined, eventually even incorporating microwave communications technology as a substitute for hard telephone lines. Throughout the early period of this evolution, costs of computers and support services continued to rise with demand but net costs were shown to decrease as fewer computers and operating and maintenance resources were needed at the remote points connected to the host where the primary software resided. Thus, a highly successful commercial revolution was born!
Realizing the commercial potential of business computing, the modern Mainframe computer was introduced in the early 1960s with prices affordable by more businesses. Then the mini-computer was introduced in 1962 at a price that allowed even more businesses to adopt the computer, and in 1971 the first personal computer was introduced with sales gaining momentum about 1997 as their cost dropped and capabilities exploded. Throughout this period, experiments in computer interconnectivity continued, the earlier means being through hard wiring - leased telephone lines or in-house cabling, all of which were tremendously inefficient by modern standards.
Then in 1983 the concept that we know today as the Local Area Network or LAN was born, a standards-based system that afforded more widely adaptable distributed computing - specifically enabling setting up one low-cost PC as a server and attaching others as clients. In this configuration the primary software program resides on the server and the client machine accesses that program as needed. As the 1990s approached, people brought the PC into the home and businesses installed them by the millions. IT support organizations grew with businesses' adoption and the cost of software and in-house support became a major issue - again. A number of concepts were tried by businesses in attempts to control the cost explosion.
Then in 1999 a new revolution was hailed as the ultimate solution to controlling IT costs!
The Application Provider Concept or ASP was introduced. As since the 1950s, a central server system was to host the service software programs with the service of those programs delivered to multiple customers - via the burgeoning Internet. The goal was to interface the now ubiquitous LAN system with the Internet in a central data center and deliver services of software programs to subscribers, a large number of whom would share in the costs of investment, operation and maintenance. But the industry made a major miscalculation!
The Internet had been constructed in a very short period versus the LAN which had evolved since the 1950s - and they are designed to and operate on different standards. To make the concept work, new data center architecture had to be created. The result is shown in this figure (from a whitepaper published by Redline Networks, Inc. in 2003).
Two technical challenges instantly arose, the first one very visible in the figure. The LAN is in the two blocks on the right and everything to the left of it to the cloud-like representation of the Internet is added anew - hence the first challenge is the hurdle of a huge investment that is required to just get the LAN to run in the Internet environment. The second challenge was devastating to most would-be users; legacy software will not run at all in the environment without major and costly reengineering or creation of new software altogether. Suddenly, the concept was out of the reach of some 98 percent of would-be users globally. That remaining 2 percent, though, comprised of the wealthiest enterprises, continued to spend money on it and has successfully proven viability of the concept though it failed in 2000 as a commercial venture. After getting software to run in the environment, issues with performance, security, reliability, flexibility and scalability continue unabated to this day, compounded by the high cost of implementation.
But one group did not follow the pack in the rush to the Web Tier data center architecture which is today the focus of many companies including all of the major software vendors!
WebSmartWare is not only a revolutionary new Consolidated and Integrated Service Software Development Platform and Internet Delivery System - it is also a completely new IT Environment - it enables creating service software right on the web - integrated into the Internet:
Compare the all software WebSmartWare data center architecture to the massive hardware-driven Web Tier above!
Look closely and see how the Web Tier interfaces the LAN with the Internet, the source of most of the issues with that technology!
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