Imagine there are four machines (a,b,c,d) which need access code and data on another machine (x). +---+ | b | +---+ ^ | v +---+ +---+ +---+ | a | <--------> | x | <--------> | c | +---+ +---+ +---+ ^ | v +---+ | d | +---+ Further imagine that the server x's code base is Perl and x's data is a contained in an RDBMS and a Linux filesystem. What's more: a,b,c,d are customers who need to interact with the data housed on x from a variety of languages (Java, Perl, PHP, VB, C++, etc) and a variety of operating systems (Win*, Solaris, Linux, OS X). Is this impossible? |