| Vendors often talk of putting specifications and standards in their middleware products. |
| People are just not going to agree on hardware, operating systems, programming languages, databases, middleware and lots of other things. |
| This claim covers the operating system wars, desktop software and middleware. |
| It is an application system provided to the customers, that is irrelative to operation system, database and middleware. |
| It is possible to compress the software by developing slimmer middleware and writing more compact applications. |
| That is where data access middleware and on-line application development systems come in. |
