Re: Is Client-Server dead?

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From: Michael Chance
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:06

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I think that folks are looking at client-server from different viewpoints
here.  The first from a small workgroup viewpoint (office/workgroup
server, local info-bases, small to medium size data & apps), which can
be adapted to "ad-hoc" programming styles and minimal configuration
support.

But that doesn't solve the corporate level viewpoint for a large
Fortune 500 company.  The execs in the corporate strategic planning
office need the data from the entire company, not just one department.
The raw compute power may be there in a 486 server, but it'll never
handle the I/O volume on the input side with any kind of response.
What about processing Citibanks credit card info each month?   Or any
Fortune 500 company-wide payroll or personnel systems?

The big iron will stay around as mega-data servers, the SPACRServes
will be the departmental servers, and the GUIs will be run off the
desktop.  Move the different parts to the right type of machines, with
multi-client-server configurations (as described in another posting).

And you'll still need IS to keep everything in sync (do you trust
every department to install the correct versions of the client
software on every machine ON SCHEDULE?) and talking to each other and
the world.

Michael A. Chance
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