The Design of a System for Distributing Shared Objects
Jean Dollimore, Eliot Miranda, Wenfang Xu · The Computer Journal · 1991
The primary motivation for the work described in this paper is the design of a platform for building applications that are intended for use by a group of people. The paper introduces the requirements for applications in which people use workstations on a local area network to share information and to communicate with one another. The paper discusses how we addressed these requirements in the context of three sample applications – a departmental database, a room-booking program and a shared spreadsheet.