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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 ...

Peer-to-peer applications are best explained by contrasting with client/server. In client/server applications, like Lotus Notes, clients communicate with each other, but must first connect with the ...

Users must select a computer user name so their machines are distinguished from others on the Unite Web service platform. Unite offers options for Web serving, file-sharing, photo-sharing and more.

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 ...

Some purists may disagree, but my definition of a SaaS client goes outside of the browser to include a client that runs on the desktop machine so long as it's still controlled and managed from the Web ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...