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Client/server computing was a technology ahead of its time—and more importantly ahead of the enterprise network infrastructure capabilities of the time.

Everything old is new again-desktop virtualization moves computing from current fat-client server architecture back to a model similar to times past. What is now device-oriented will become ...

Server-based, thin client computing today takes several forms. Traditionally, thin client solutions revolved around groups of terminal servers running dozens of individual user sessions.

Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later I write this week from IBM’s Insight conference ...

Modern Web applications are moving back to placing more of the intelligence in the client instead of the server.

The world of distributed cloud-client computing is also the world of internet of things sensors, of blockchain-powered contractual currency and ubiquitous machine intelligence.

The most recent buzz on the web has been about Ajax and improved user experiences. Looking to the future, some suggest that the "old" client-server model will be the way to meet users expectations ...

The funny part requires historical perspective. Remember the early days of client/server computing? Part of its attraction was its ability to move processing to the desktop. That way, as the ...