Client/Server Computing

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An information system architecture in which one or more dedicated servers process requests from peripheral computers, acting as a buffer among peripheral ‘nodes’

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Client/server computing has several unique advantages:

Technology architecture choices for enterprise financial systems

Client/server computing: A comprehensive model for cost of ownership, Inside Gartner Group This Week (June 8, 1994), 1-3.

Client/server benefits, problems, best practices

Client/server computing systems are comprised of two logical parts: a server that provides services and a client that requests services of the server.

Frameworks for component-based client/server computing

(1996), "Client/server computing: applications and issues", Journal of Systems Management, Vol.

Client/server infrastructure: a case study in planning and conversion

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.

An assessment of accounting information security

In June of 1992, Fields founded OpenVision, which is now a leading supplier of systems management applications for open client/server computing environments.

Preparing for the Information Age

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.

The World Wide Web is coming soon to an organization near you

New accounting programs have followed an overall trend toward client/server computing, graphical user interfaces, and the greater data accessibility and flexibility offered by relational databases, and SQL (Structured Query Language).

Counting on new software

Fortunately, many CEOs have abandoned the pretense that client/server computing is cheaper.

Bargains and bombshells: calculating the costs of client server

Just what is client/server computing? The term has caused a great deal of confusion lately among both technical and non-technical people.

Cooperative processing: the next step in property management

The University of California at Santa Barbara has successfully mastered such client/server computing in the school's Life Sciences Institutional Computing Facility.

Software bridge between Mac and UNIX solves university's LAN dilemma

"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.