--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an IT industry term for software that > enables other applications to work together > more successfully? For example, let's say you > want to file Outlook email in a job folder with > other documents related to a given project. Or > say you want to compare computer-aided > drawings produced by different programs. > > Has the industry coined a term for such software? > > Thanks. >
Middle-ware is one term. Groupware or collaborative software appears to be more common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software Linux has a virtual desktop system available. Apple has incorporated the concept into the next version of Mac OS X via the built-in iChat video software: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ichat.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
