Four possible deployment models were considered for the three-layer architecture: the desktop, the database server, the thin client, and the web application, as shown in Figure 1.
For instance, you cannot share a desktop-only database on the Web, and some desktop features, such as query totals, will not work on a Web database.
And there was a consensus during the discussion that while technology had expanded the opportunities for privacy invasion -- through the combination of desktop computers, databases and the Internet -- technology alone would not bring about privacy protections.
There are many common terms, such as HaaS (Hardware as a Service), SaaS Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), DaaS ([Development, Database, Desktop] as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), BaaS (Business as a Service), FaaS (Framework as a Service), or even XaaS (Everything as a Service), which refers to a generic service.
That's because the data isn't collected on the company's servers where it can potentially be viewed and even distributed without a person's knowledge but rather on the user's desktop in a database that's created on the user's own PC.
Ballmer views product integration as Microsoft's big advantage how its software will reach from the desktop to servers, databases and the Web and onto phones, handhelds and set-top boxes.
Three open-source applications bug databases (Apache web server, GNOME desktop environment and MySQL database) are investigated by Chandra and Chen [36], again in a study with a slightly different focus than ours.
According to data released in December by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, 8 of the 10 fastest-growing occupations projected through 2010 are in information technology, including software engineers, support specialists, systems administrators, database administrators, desktop publishers and other jobs.
Over the past month, the company has added support for new languages including console (C++, C#, Java, Objective-C), web (PHP, Javascript, JQuery, Java Server Pages, AJAX), rich media (Flex, Processing), desktop (Java Swing), and database (SQL, SQLite).
The first customized desktop version of the database system, called EthioInfo v1.1, was launched in February 2006.
