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 ...

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

“If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn’t call it code.” — from a Federal Express promotion, reported by IS Survivalist Matthew Persico Imitation, I’m told, is the sincerest form of flattery ...

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 ...

Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later I write this week from IBM’s Insight conference in Las ...

(1) Running a program in a user's machine. Contrast with processing in a server. (2) Using a computer like a terminal with limited application processing. See thin client. (3) Users at computers ...

Some of the most innovative and revolutionary results occur when methods from one field are combined with methods from another. Networked file systems, digital signal processing and graphical user ...

An overview of what Client/Server is all about. The course will introduce the six leading technologies for developing Client/Server applications: database servers, TP (Transaction Processing) Monitors ...

Microsoft Corp. may be considered a PC stalwart by server/client evangelists like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, but the Redmond, Washington-based company’s operating systems ship on more server-client ...