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Article: Taking off: core banking functions on client/servers.
- Article from:
- American Banker
- Article date:
- July 16, 1996
- Author:
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An increasing number of banks - most of them community-size - are embracing client/server computer architectures for core banking applications.
Client/server systems consist of groups of personal computers that can use a computer hub called a server to jointly work on processing tasks. By pooling the resources of many PCs, client/server systems can process more cheaply and often more quickly than systems based on mainframes of midrange computers.
Banks have been cautious about using client/server architectures for their most important core banking functions, but there are signs that is beginning to change.
Though only about 60 banks use client/server ...