Client-Server Architectures
Media favorite (easy sell)
Vendor favorite (easy sell)
Many companies have adopted and are implementing client-server networks
Reasons:
- scaleable (processing and storage capacity)
- the cost for up grading is more gradual
- upgrades in small steps
- support for different types of clients and servers, different operating systems etc. ==> multiple vendors ==> special purpose processing with the best suited systems (e.g., transaction processing, real time video and mathematical calculations) ==>maximized performance
- reliability?