Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

As data grows, a shift in computing paradigm is underway. I started my professional career in the 1990s, during massive shift from mainframe computing to the heyday of client/server computing and ...

An overview of what Client/Server is all about. The course will introduce the six leading technologies for developing Client/Server applications: database servers, TP (Transaction Processing) Monitors ...

Need to distribute mainframe data to all those folks on local area networks? It's a problem many state and local government MIS departments are facing as information access becomes a priority. A few ...

As the Windows client environment has become richer and more powerful over the years, it has become more difficult to manage. Even on a stable and reliable version of Windows--meaning Windows 2000 or ...

His sale of his company's storied personal computer division may be the strongest indication that Sam Palmisano believes the PC's status as a business computing tool is in decline. But if there were ...

“If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn’t call it code.” — from a Federal Express promotion, reported by IS Survivalist Matthew Persico Imitation, I’m told, is the sincerest form of flattery ...

Enterprises have the tendency to adopt a technology only after it moves to its third major version. CXOs are not for embracing cutting-edge technologies before they became stable and proven to be ...

Fit within curriculum: core option for Computer Science BS students; Computer Science elective option for Computer Science BA students. Focuses on design and implementation of network programs and ...