I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

In a client-server environment, an organization's files, and sometimes its applications, are stored not on individual desktop computers but on centralized servers instead. That "client-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 ...

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

Since Google Plus and a few other cutting-edge websites now render entirely on the client, let's review why server-side rendering is desirable at all. Server-side rendering means when the browser ...

When Microsoft started talking about the direction of Windows Server, a confusing term started showing up: client. If you were writing a server application, said Microsoft distinguished engineer ...

Android has a few great VNC apps, and a few not so great. If we had to pick the best, we'd choose PocketCloud for how insanely easy to use it is. PocketCloud excels at being easy to use. You don't ...

Former Apple engineer Neil Jhaveri has been working on an email app for Mac called Mimestream. It is now out of beta after a long test phase of more than two years. The app uses Gmail’s API — and that ...

Microsoft is making available preview versions of many of its Windows x86 versions of its Office 2019 client apps today, April 27, but for volume-licensing customers only. Office 2019, due in the ...