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 ...

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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 ...

For users, a chat application seems to be a classic P2P application. You send a message to the chat room, and all users that take part at the chat receive the message. So far, you have learned ...

Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

New Business Requirements Recent government initiatives to expedite the purchase ordering process, improve inventory control and deliver better services to the public have created demands for ...

Microsoft Application Virtualization uses the client-based app deployment method in which the virtual apps run on the endpoint rather than on a remote server. With a client-based application product ...

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 ...

A thin client (lean client) is a virtual desktop computing model that runs on the resources stored on a central server instead of a computer's resources. Thin clients typically take the form of ...

Version 5.x of LabVIEW introduces a number of interprocess communication methods, which is discussed below. All of them, however, follow a similar pattern of use; creation of a refnum, writing or ...