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3. When an order is shipped, information that it has been shipped should be propagated to the main system, which will update both inventory on hand and customer orders fulfilled.

This setup gave us plenty of opportunity to test the ability of the EAI products to integrate systems based on various databases, on a real-time basis.

Because our deployment EAI machine was beefier than you would normally see in a production environment, we used a more standardized sample deployment for price comparisons. "As tested" prices listed in this article are based on the following configuration:

• One dual-processor production machine.

• One dual-processor development/testing machine.