In a guest post here in January, Matt McAdams critiqued Salesforce.com's database-as-a-service offering, Database.com, which I had previously lauded. McAdams, who is CEO of PaaS vendor TrackVia, ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Explaining the ongoing evolution from client-server to cloud-native, source of much confusion and misdirection when comparing SaaS offerings There are many definitions of software as a service (SaaS).

With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has made a significant change for the everyday virtualization administrator by replacing the traditional desktop client (aka C# Client, VI Client) with a new ...

In the era before web apps, the web was a relatively simple system of hyperlinked documents written in HTML. Click a link on a page and your browser would load a new page based on the referenced URL ...