Escon applications are highly scalable and are designed to support hundreds of thousands of users and customers. Designed to run on multiple platforms, they can be deployed on a wide variety of hardware and software to maximize your existing infrastructure.
Although the applications are designed to scale across multiple servers and environments only one machine is necessary to begin with. As your needs increase further you can create clustered environments for even more power and redundancy.
The core running environment and technologies included are PHP, Ajax, JavaScript, HTML, and XML.
Escon applications support any client with Web browser access. No plug-ins, ActiveX controls or client side technology required. Certified browsers include:
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
Opera Option: Windows client to use liveAlert (.NET Framework required)
RedHat Enterprise
SUSE Linux
Solaris (x86,SPARC)
FreeBSD 4.8 or above
HP-UX 10 or above
Sun ONE Web Server 6.0 SP2
MySQL 4.1, 5.x