Web and application servers

In an organisation that is geographically distributed, it makes sense to use the power of web servers to spread and store information. Increasingly, too, software applications are moving from the desktop or network and are migrating to internet or intranet application servers.

This chapter gives you a summary of the most important components of this new computing environment:

• Software stacks
• Web servers
• Application servers
• Java application servers

You can use the information in these sections to begin formulating your organisation's strategy for migrating its software applications and business processes to an internet-based, distributed environment.