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Article: Technology bringing bankers a revolution, but not a panacea.(Client-Server Computing)
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Client-server computing is spreading like wildfire.
If this is news to the people at the top of financial institutions who don't Pay day-to-day attention to computer trends, it is only a matter of time before they will have to start making sense of client-server.
It has all the appearances of a revolution going far beyond information processing and to the very core of the way they run their businesses.
A product of the continuing miniaturization and flexibility of computer power, client-server represents a simple but radical change in the organization and processing of information. The top-down transmission of data from central mainframes to outlying ...