eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Client/server computing was a technology ahead of its ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

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 ...

(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 ...

In a client-server environment, an organization's files, and sometimes its applications, are stored not on individual desktop computers but on centralized servers instead. That "client-server" ...

Peer-to-peer applications are best explained by contrasting with client/server. In client/server applications, like Lotus Notes, clients communicate with each other, but must first connect with the ...

Call it the revenge of the Windows client — or the revelation of Microsoft’s three new technology pillars. Longhorn, the forthcoming version of Windows, made its first public outing at last week’s ...