eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.

The client-server model can be used on the internet as well as on a local area network (LAN). Examples of client-server systems on the internet include web browsers and web servers, FTP clients ...

The client-server model allows your small business to create software that a wide range of hardware can access. When you consolidate the entirety of the application's data and process intensive ...

Industry analysts have said that the client/server model is ten times more expensive to maintain than its Internet counterpart. But the benefits are not only derived from cost-efficiency. The model ...

Under the two-tier model, the new code has to be downloaded or installed onto every single client machine. With the thin-client approach, fortunately, no change is necessary on the user workstations.

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 ...

Unlike client-server, the three-tier application model has aged quite gracefully and is now used to provide API services in addition to web pages.

In a client-server model, resources are connected to dedicated servers that centralize storage, printing, backups and more services. Other computers on the network, called clients, connect to the ...