One of the things I've found interesting in the development world over past few months is how modern applications are moving back to placing more of the intelligence in the client instead of the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

If it accomplished nothing else, the last issue – on whether or not the word Internet should be capitalized – reinforced my belief that we’ve been spending too much time talking about “Longhorn” and ...

The Wall Street Journal had a story yesterday called Businesses Take Another Look at Virtual Desktops*. Being that it’s the Wall Street Journal, the article focuses on the news and financial aspects ...

NComputing is unveiling today a computer which costs just $200 but acts like a full-fledged Windows PC for the enterprise. The L300 — the latest in a series of models — is a little box that connects ...

I was on vacation last week and found myself waxing philosophic about how computing has evolved in our organizations over the years and where computing is headed over the next five to ten years. I can ...