Messaging beyond the desktop

Inter-application messaging will typically be only on a single machine, however there may be cases where a general application messaging system might involve more than one computer. For instance, a remote compute cluster pushing data to a desktop app for visualization, a server process providing access to a remote resource, etc

Desktop2Desktop

Is there a demand for collaborative data exploration?

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What other use cases for Desktop2Desktop messaging are there?

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What technologies are there that could facilitate this, and cope with firewalls, NATS etc?

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Desktop2Server

Is this any of our business or is this a GWS issue?

none of our business, otherwise where do we stop? DAL, GWS, Registry groups all have existing client->server work -- NoelWinstanley