Client/server computing has several unique advantages:
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Client/server computing systems are comprised of two logical parts: a server that provides services and a client that requests services of the server.
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With the current increases in use of distributed information processing such as
client/server computing, the Internet, and EDI, this threat will only increase as more points of entry to the system are created.
In June of 1992, Fields founded OpenVision, which is now a leading supplier of systems management applications for open
client/server computing environments.
The World Wide Web technology of the Internet is being adopted rapidly as the standard
client/server computing platform within corporations to create intranets for their internal communications.
Fortunately, many CEOs have abandoned the pretense that
client/server computing is cheaper.
Just what is
client/server computing? The term has caused a great deal of confusion lately among both technical and non-technical people.
The University of California at Santa Barbara has successfully mastered such
client/server computing in the school's Life Sciences Institutional Computing Facility.
"Users like it even though they have had to learn new skills" he says, pointing out that the
client/server computing model has allowed them more autonomy and creativity in their work routines.