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 ...

Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

On the surface one of the oddest things about a large client-server operation that grew from an earlier 327X ... an effort to update its systems (then built around the 327X/3096 architecture), ...

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