Consortium Defines Business Opportunities

To assist potential developers of Salutation-enabled applications, the Consortium has prepared White Papers defining, at a high level, the opportunity segments associated with Salutation and a high-level design for a Salutation Resource Manager. Select any or all of the White Papers described below to receive a copy in .pdf format.

Geographic Computing Puts Salutation Into Hand-helds and Palm-sized Computing

When forecasting for the electronics industry, one prediction is a sure thing: Things will get smaller! Computers are no exception. The glass house computer shrunk to fit on your desk top. Your desk top computer shrunk to fit on your lap. And now, what once filled a room can fit in the palm of your hand. Hand-held and palm-sized computers are now all the rage. Due to a variety of operating systems, screen sizes, application content and operating environments found in today's hand-held and palm-sized PCs, communicating with a broad range of this type of device is difficult to create.

Salutation Architecture provides a means to discover the capabilities of hand-held and palm-sized PCs as they wanders into a geographic environment, then automatically respond to these capabilities as necessary. A server might use a web browser installed in a hand-held or palm-sized PCs, or download a specialized applet to drive the user interface of the device. In this way, the server uses the best available technologies in a hand-held or palm-sized PC or supplies its own as required. It is not necessary to get agreement on a single interchange format or application, then port it across all platforms. The resulting approach is not a low common denominator, but can be as generic or specific as the local server wishes.

Market Trends and Salutation Opportunities Review

It is recognized that customer demands and technology advances are creating an environment for dynamic networks. Networks will no longer be closed environments with controlled access. Wireless, Infrared, Internet, Intranet, extranet and expanded network interconnectivity will allow devices, applications, and services to enter and leave multiple networks at will. This creates the promise of broader information access for end users while increasing management and support concerns for the network administrator. A new business opportunity exists to exploit the untaped area of information interworking. This paper discusses the market trends in networking and the roll that the Salutation Architecture plays in meeting these opportunities.

Salutation Architecture: Enabling Applications and Services

Software development companies achieve market differentiation by providing the knowledge worker with comprehensive management of documents, data, and communiques through a diverse range of networked information appliances, applications, and services. These companies recognize that ubiquitous network computing will provide knowledge workers with access to information from the device-at-hand, eliminating the barriers imposed by pre-requisite devices, specific operating systems and unique data type classifications. This allows the knowledge worker to select an information appliance based on personal preference, current location, and quality/quantity requirements. This paper describes an Information Management Service that can serve as the central distribution point to provide ubiquitous information access.

Salutation Information Management Service Structure and Product Component Review

A system-level solution for managing information interworking is envisioned. This solution is called Salutation Information Management Services. It is an assemblage of various Salutation enabled components and support modules which, together build a service and resource management facility for information storage, retrieval, distribution and visualization in a ubiquitous network. This paper describes the individual product opportunities that exist to build such a solution.

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