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Client/server: myths & realities.
Car bumper stickers often reflect profound social and political values with messages such as END NUCLEAR WAR, END WORLD HUNGER, STOP ABORTION, etc.
Recently driving on the Baltimore Beltway, I saw this I.T. bumper sticker:
END USER COMPUTING.
The phenomenon of client/server computing is causing profound changes, anxieties, and opportunities throughout both the I.T. and business communities. What is client/server computing? What are its promises? What are the myths and realities? What are its critical success factors? How do you manage and implement client/server on an enterprise-wide basis?
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- Taking off: core banking functions on client/servers.
- Magazine article from: American Banker Tucker, Tracey July 16, 1996 700+ words
...bureau to a client/server system provided...supposed strengths of client/server computing: the...failure of data base servers, the bank was...data to secondary servers so that if a crash...Savings, said the client/server environment is...
- Netier, Alternative Technology Debut First Guaranteed Preconfigured Thin-Client...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 27, 1999 700+ words
...leading thin-client/server computing distributor...award winning thin clients with centralized...software, optimized servers, storage subsystems...to-end thin-client/server solutions to businesses...Workstation for thin clients, Netier has deployed...
- Smart-Client Servers Beat Fat and Thin.
- Magazine article from: Bank Technology News Mouline, Imad September 1, 2004 700+ words
...can. Fat-client applications...These fat clients have full...on shared servers. However, fat-client applications...live on a server or farm of...they rely on servers across the...screen, a thin client is required...network to the server, which will...technologies. Smart ...
- Preaching the gospel of pure client/servers. (Phoenix International Ltd.)
- Magazine article from: American Banker Barthel, Matt April 28, 1995 700+ words
...However, client/server systems are generally...provider of "pure" client/server core banking software...positioned to capture more clients, experts said. Observers...early entry into the client/server market is a curse as...
- Florida-Based Citrix Systems Finds Success in Thin-Client Servers.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News L.A. Lorek September 15, 1998 700+ words
...ranging from thin-client devices and servers to management software...and saving money with server-based computing...s MetaFrame thin-client server software along with...The reason the thin-clients have become attractive...
- Essential point about client/servers is that they help you serve clients.(bank...
- Magazine article from: American Banker Hymes, William W. May 31, 1995 700+ words
...debate about the role of client/server technology in banking. While...banking technology today isn't client/server; it's client service. The technology a bank...that technology to work for its clients. Over the past 20 years, almost...
- Designing for satisfied users. (client servers)(includes related article on the...
- Magazine article from: Business Communications Review Edlund, Albert E. Parker, Sharon R. November 1, 1996 700+ words
...network. The term client-server refers simply to two...arguably the easiest client-server applications to develop...referred to as "thin clients," these combine GUI...current focus on "thin client" implementations is...
- Satellites can help launch banks into new world of client...
- Magazine article from: American Banker Cisewski, Fred L. May 17, 1995 700+ words
...communications, are building client/server systems that will allow bankers...of using relatively unproven client/server technology for critical applications...meantime, host-based systems and client/server systems will have to coexist...