The OpenROAD desktop environment is comprised of the OpenROAD VM and the Ingres/Net client. With this infrastructure you can write and deploy either client/server applications that access the database directly or thin client applications that access the database using the OpenROAD Server middleware platform. A desktop can even have a mix of both kinds of applications.

Deploying an OpenROAD application to the desktop is as simple as copying the application’s compiled image files and setting up a shortcut to run them in the VM. Client/server applications can connect to a database using Ingres/Net while thin client applications can connect to the OpenROAD Server using DCOM or HTTP.