New Business Requirements Recent government initiatives to expedite the purchase ordering process, improve inventory control and deliver better services to the public have created demands for ...

GartnerGroup envisions a revolution occurring in client/server, where less emphasis will be placed on the technology itself. As Darlene Brown puts it, "The next generation of client/server development ...

A development system used to create applications for a client/server environment. A comprehensive system generally includes a GUI builder for creating the user interface, a fourth-generation language ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

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Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

As the Windows client environment has become richer and more powerful over the years, it has become more difficult to manage. Even on a stable and reliable version of Windows--meaning Windows 2000 or ...

When Microsoft started talking about the direction of Windows Server, a confusing term started showing up: client. If you were writing a server application, said Microsoft distinguished engineer ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...