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.
Both quit their jobs at Dazel, an Austin-based designer of client-server software, to start their own Internet software firm.
Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) mushroomed in the client-server business, with sales executives sometimes throwing free developer databases from helicopters to crowds of independent allies.
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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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.
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.
Oracle mushroomed in the client-server business, with sales executives sometimes throwing free developer databases from helicopters to crowds of independent allies.
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.
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.
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 emergence of hardware and software IP load-balancers in the late 1990s catalyzed the development of server-farms by transparently distributing incoming client requests among the servers of a farm.
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Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client and its Exchange server haven't always been particularly Mac friendly.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
The Chicago-based company sells both client and server versions of its VoiceCheck software to companies who then implement their own systems.
Resetting the preferences in the e-mail client to the ISPs mail server will fix the problem, but will disable protection by Poproxy.
Unfortunately, none of these arcane, client-side hacks can fix a server problem.
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"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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Users of the Plex media server and its suite of client apps can expect an all-new app for Android soon, rebuilt two years after its debut for a vastly improved UI and feature set.
McGuire says a key addition is the built-in client for accessing applications on Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, or Win 2000 Server.
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.
Also, client-side JavaScript encryption has its limitations since it would still be susceptible to a server-side code poisoning attack executed either through a man-in-the-middle attack or the service provider acting maliciously or subject to jurisdictional court order.
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When Salesforce.com signs up a new client, it simply creates an account on the software platform that ties together its farms of server-computers.
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