个人计算机曾经被看作仅仅是孤立地创建、管理和分析信息的平台,而现在的个人计算机即PC则逐渐地用于支持用户之间的信息交换和信息合作。促成这一功能跃进的关键是集成:桌面上应用系统之间的集成、与远程服务器上的应用系统之间的集成。此外,用户的桌面系统需要不断地与信息交换与合作的基础设施——邮件、报文、组件平台、共享数据库、工作流管理器——相集成,以支持规模更大的工作组和组织化的生产。 实际上,今天的PC应该是一个集成的平台,各种应用和系统服务天衣无缝地联系在一起,以支持用户的工作。但是,这种变 While personal computers were once viewed as a platform for creating, managing and analyzing information in isolation, today’s personal computers, PCs, are increasingly being used to support the exchange of information and information cooperation between users. The key to this leap forward is integration: integration between application systems on the desktop, and application systems on remote servers. In addition, the user’s desktop system needs to be continuously integrated with the information exchange and collaboration infrastructure - mail, messaging, component platforms, shared databases, workflow managers - to support larger workgroups and organizations Production. In fact, today’s PC should be an integrated platform where various applications and system services are seamlessly connected to support the user’s work. However, this change