Although we're just scratching the surface of software fortresses , we can already discuss how some common technologies might be used within the software fortress architecture. Here are just a few obvious technology mappings. I will discuss them and others in detail later:
It might be tempting to think of a fortress as an operating system process, a specific computer, or a physical location. None of these notions are correct. Fortresses often consist of multiple processes running on many machines distributed over a geographically disperse area. |