In computing, a horizontal application is a software package designed to be used by many different kinds of organizations or individual users, such as office automation, word processing or bookkeeping software.These general-purpose programs address the needs of many people. Marketing, Piping, Finance, Accounting and Management are the main areas which use horizontal applications. In contrast with vertical application.
Famous quotes containing the words horizontal and/or application:
“True. There is
a beautiful Jesus.
He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef.
How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in!
How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes!
But I can’t. Need is not quite belief.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)