Distributed processing relates to the platform layer of technical architecture. Client/server is an application-layer issue, and may or may not relocate processing tasks. But that’s OK.

The client-server model is nothing new of course: it's the way traditional applications have been built for years, with rich client applications talking to server-side applications.

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 ...

IBM's view of business computing's future contrasts markedly with that held by arch rival Microsoft. With its recent release of the Windows Vista operating system — complete with a desktop footprint ...

The latest release of the BarcoCim integrated production management system offers a complete computer integrated manufacturing solution for injection moulders. It offers a modular concept with ...

Intel unveils new architectures for two x86 CPU cores, two data center SoCs, two discrete GPUs and a performance hybrid architecture for client.

Edge computing shows aspects both familiar and new, analysts told attendees at this week’s IDC Directions 2022 event in Boston. It has a likeness to client-server computing that preceded cloud ...