This text refers to questions from 39 to 41
There are very broad trends that affect almost all industries
and we can see them manifest in specific ways in each industry.
Generally, there is, as if it were, a kind of a "perfect storm"
gathering. With the more widespread adoption of the Internet, more
and more users are turning to it for e-commerce, trading,
reservations, gambling, and so on. This in turn increases the
numbers of transaction and information processing that need to be
conducted in near-real-time. In addition, organizations are using
more and more real-time systems to analyze information on-the-fly
and make automated decisions based on this information analysis
in real time. This is also becoming feasible because of the
significant reductions in the cost of computing infrastructure:
powerful machines based on commodity x86 architectures, open
source operating systems (Linux, Solaris), etc. With grid
technologies (such as GigaSpaces), they can aggregate these
machines into powerful computer systems previously only possible
with expensive mainframes and proprietary SMP machines.
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