The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

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 ...

Government technology managers know client-server architecture because they deal with it daily, and many of them have the gray hair to prove it. They also know that despite its problems with excessive ...

Most large companies are reluctant to abandon client/server technology in favor of intranet technologies, according to a study conducted by Business Research Group, a division of Reed Elsevier ...

Thin client management software and multi-monitor technology enables bottom-line savings and speedy implementation for a control room retrofit pilot project at Chevron North America. West Texas is ...

(Sidebar to "A Better View of the Plant" from the January 2008 issue of Automation World) Much of the move to new human-machine interface (HMI) technology has been accompanied by a shift to ...

The difference between new and not-so-new technology has a way of revealing what is elastic and dynamic compared to what is rigid and static. It’s not a measure of which technology is considered good ...

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 ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...