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Article: Should you migrate to client/server computing? (NetComm Update) (Column)
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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IBM is the latest vendor to embrace client/server computing by creating a 900-staff member unit that will work closely with users and other newly created IBM business units to develop software solutions for the new computing environment. But does IBM's endorsement mean that all organizations should start migrating to client/server computing?
Conventional wisdom states that larger firms certainly should be moving to an open, network client/server architecture to handle their information processing needs. But does this apply to smaller companies as well, and what pitfalls await the unwary in organizations of all sizes?
No one disputes that client/server ...