Some of the most popular applications on the internet follow the client-server model, including email, FTP, and web services. Each of these clients features a graphic or text-based user interface ...

In peer-to-peer applications, by contrast, virtually all the application logic and information reside on the client, which communicates directly with other clients without server intermediation.

Client-server applications flourished for only a brief period but they created a new generation of easy-to-use, graphical applications that delivered computing to hundreds of thousands of small ...

"We're predicting 60 percent of all client/server applications existing today will either be scrapped or rewritten by 2001," said Brown.

All the most innovative SaaS applications are built on a connected, cloud-native architecture that is a generation apart from the traditional enterprise-centric, client-server model. While it may seem ...

Not all browser-based systems are bad, nor are all client-server systems good. However, as always, a careful examination of user requirements and thoughtful testing with the primary users of the ...

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.