And still today, many programs and programmers only support this client server model.
Microsoft SharePoint, a giant in the client-server paradigm, will whither in this new, mobile world.
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Worse, software is moving away from data centers in client-server configurations tied to PCs.
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In the 1990s, they started investing again, this time in the new technology of client-server systems.
Java and Flash are two examples that have extended this concept into client and server side development.
As corporations began deploying open client-server systems in recent years, many attached storage devices to their local servers.
Every new technology wave comes with its own catchphrase: distributed computing, client-server, e-business.
Both quit their jobs at Dazel, an Austin-based designer of client-server software, to start their own Internet software firm.
Oracle mushroomed in the client-server business, with sales executives sometimes throwing free developer databases from helicopters to crowds of independent allies.
The Chicago-based company sells both client and server versions of its VoiceCheck software to companies who then implement their own systems.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
Both the X11 client and server can run on a single machine.
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But a growing number of my clients are either moving towards cloud based applications or having their client-server applications hosted externally and connecting remotely.
Developing applications for the new Web environments or even for the old client-server ones with less resource constraints changes how we think of application functionality.
"Sharing the workload across client and server offers automotive manufacturers and end-users the best of both worlds, " said Andy Gryc, automotive product marketing manager, QNX Software Systems.
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In high school, Maples started writing video games for PCs and then went to Stanford where his room-mate was Joe Liemandt, who founded client-server software maker, Trilogy Software, in Austin.
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Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.
In bringing Ubuntu to the phone, Canonical is uniquely placed with a single operating system for client, server and cloud, and a unified family of interfaces for the phone, the PC and the TV.
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As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.
The Tivoli veterans turned their attention to the Internet, which -- like the client-server business in the early 1990s -- is still a chaotic environment, with lots of opportunity, a profusion of different computer systems and no dominant players.
By the company's count, a single combined thin client and blade server uses 44 watts of energy compared with an energy-chewing desktop PC's 80 watts.
The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.
Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client and its Exchange server haven't always been particularly Mac friendly.
It will include server and client APIs, API libraries and development tools, according to consultant Jon Reed.
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Most real world business applications are developed on and for windows, both on the server and client side.
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These are situations where you have a model with a client computer and a server computer that communicate with each other.
Instead, the client relies on the server's tuner for live TV.
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