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:
“And yet out of eternity, a thread
separates itself on the blackness,
a horizontal thread
that fumes a little with pallor upon the dark.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, to-day in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)