CARNOT
The Carnot Project in the Enterprise Integration Program of the Information Systems Division at MCC is addressing the problem of logically unifying physically-distributed, enterprise-wide, heterogeneous information. World-wide information management is the objective. Specifically, Carnot will provide a user with the means to navigate information efficiently and transparently, to update that information consistently, and to write applications easily for large, heterogeneous, distributed information systems¾ systems where resources may even reside on the conventional, closed environments that pervade businesses world-wide.
Carnot has developed and assembled a large set of generic facilities that are focused on the problem of managing integrated enterprise information. These facilities are organized as five sets of services: communication services, support services, distribution services, semantic services, and access services, as shown in Figure 1.