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Development Platforms
The choice of platform for any software system is driven by many factors but mainly by the prevalent hardware and operating systems already in place, plus any specific performance or peripheral requirements.
When asked to recommend platforms, we steer clients toward systems with the lowest cost of ownership for acceptable performance levels. In choosing software solutions for development and for data storage, we likewise steer towards simplicity in the number of components needed to produce and install a running application.
Here are the guidelines we have used in recommending platforms...
Departmental, Enterprise Systems
Web-based front-end for simple interfaces; Java for complex interfaces
SQL back-end data storage
C/C++ back-end engines
Desktop Applications
Visual Basic front-end
JET database
Distributed Applications
Visual Basic front-end
SQL back-end data storage
Scientific Simulations
Visual Basic where performance is not essential
C/C++ where performance is paramount
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