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.

Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

Everything old is new again-desktop virtualization moves computing from current fat-client server architecture back to a model similar to times past. What is now device-oriented will become ...

Thus, the term client is applied (FTP client, email client, etc.) when a program is designed to run on a client computer, and is capable of processing data received from a server. Also, in the case of ...

The biggest problem with the thin-client model is speed, with applications running slower off the server. The technology is not here right now. We are running PCs at 100Mbps and the bandwidth can ...

Opera has unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that has the possibility to shake up the client-server computing model of the Web, by turning any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it ...