SaaS from 1C. Technical specifications?

Question

1C

There is more and more information about the activity of 1C in the field of SaaS solutions (1cfresh, 1cair) and its own data center in Moscow.
Questions about the principle of building solutions and technical parameters of hosting are of interest:
1. Are data centers from 1C and 1cfresh/1cair the same thing?
2. What operating systems do they work on? Windows?
3. Is placement possible only in 1C 8.2 in thin client mode?
4. Is there a web services publish from config? How are published web services accessible from the Internet?
5. Is it possible to install and run external components and COM servers on the server side?
6. How does the exchange take place through data conversion, if trading and accounting are located on the same server or separately on the server and locally at the client?

Answer 1

1.
1cair is a third party company. I basically provide access to configurations via RDP.
1cfresh is a technology for developing 1C configurations for the cloud and a technology for publishing them in the cloud (i.e., in theory, 1C partners can deploy their services using this technology)
1cfresh.com (aka 1C data center) is a service from 1C itself using technology 1cfresh
2.
thin client in windows.
web client in windows, linux, os x, andoid, ios.
with the transition to 8.3, the thin client will also work in linux.
3.
A web client is also available.
some configurations can create standalone workspaces. (i.e. the database is downloaded from the cloud and works on the local machine, periodically synchronizing with the database in the cloud)

Answer 2

2) yes, it works on Windows

Answer 3

If anyone is interested in the topic, answers to questions are also here:
http://www.forum.mista.ru/topic.php?id=645570