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from top publications available through your library. If all the
database applications on the planet ran on one computer--using
one database--and all users were always connected to it, data
replication technology would have no reason to exist. The
unlikelihood of the above scenario, given current software and
hardware limitations (not to mention social, political,
economic, and religious concerns), means data replication
technology will stick around--at least for now. Until software
vendors make distributed computing worth the time, data
replication is your next best option. This issue's column
provides an underlying look at why replication technology is a
hot topic, and gives a sneak preview into the way Gupta
Corporation is implementing it--including the benefits for
remote users who want to replicate data to a network from a
laptop. Replication technology gets its origins from relational
databases and client-server computing, which gained momentu