INVITED SPEAKER
Client Design for Service Centric
Architectures
Mark Smith, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
Next generation computing clients and appliances are components of systems and applications that are service centric, and the potential for economic growth of e-commerce and e-services that use such systems is immense. This paper will address the design of next generation clients considering new constraints and opportunities that result from this shift towards a service centric architecture. Designers need to consider factors that cut across both mobile and fixed client design and include aspects of networking, new hardware, data types, and operating systems. From a technology provider's viewpoint, the definition of a system or application is now more abstract, but also provides opportunities by creating ways to benefit both technology users and providers. The paper will also illustrate how some of these points are being addressed through work in next generation clients taking place at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto.