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 ...

A thick client (sometimes called a fat client) is a form of client-server architecture. Specifically, it is a networked computer system with most resources installed locally, rather than distributed ...

Used in home and corporate networks, a client is any computer hardware or software device that requests access to a service provided by a server. Clients are typically seen as the requesting program ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...

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 ...

One of the things I've found interesting in the development world over past few months is how modern applications are moving back to placing more of the intelligence in the client instead of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows Terminal Services (WTS) and Citrix allow users to access resources and applications on remote computers. They use a technology that provides a connection to an entire desktop or an individual ...

Developers will be able to use the Serverless MCP Server by prompting their AI-driven coding agents to design, deploy, and troubleshoot serverless applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released ...

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 ...