ZDNet Resources
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- The core claim made by N-tier architecture proponents is that this structure breaks an application into modular elements that can be separately maintained and used for more than one application. In the simplest possible version of this you have at least one database server, at least one...
- Tags: Wintel, Client-server, PC, Application Server, Desktop Computer, Storage, Desktops, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio (2)
- WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG builder that enables the drag & drop assembly of scalable, web-applications using Ajax widgets, web services and databases. WaveMaker Studio will look and feel especially familiar to client/server developers who are used to working with visual tools. WaveMaker's Studio enables data-driven and...
- Tags: Client-server, WaveMaker, WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio, AJAX, Productivity, Portals, Servers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-05-02
- Why Client-server fails
- The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the vision going into the IBM Future Systems project in 1968 was simple: build future...
- Tags: Client-server, Client-server Idea, Serialization Problem, E-voting, Servers, Government, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Why Client-server fails
- Why Client-server failsControlling the what happens on the client.You control what happens on the client by requiring of it the least possible functionality ("fill this form in"), and placing no application logic there.If you do validation on the client, this is only as a convenience to the user, and all...
- Tags: Servers, Nothing, client-server
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Popcorn (zip)
- Popcorn is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client. It works as a client/server application, reading mail directly from POP3 servers. It is ideally suited for on-the-road mail access, scanning, and reading and sending mail over slow connections. It supports multiple user profiles, enabling you to read and send mail from...
- Tags: Client-server, POP3, Ultrafunk, Popcorn, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-22
- IntaChange (zip)
- IntaChange lets you record and implement changes, giving a structured way of cataloging and managing change throughout your organisation. IntaChange costs significantly less than ordinary client-server systems because it is web-based and installed on a central server, so it doesn't need to be installed on individual workstations. This means less...
- Tags: Client-server, Intasoft, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- TZO Dynamic DNS Lite (exe)
- TZO uses true dynamic DNS client/server technology to fix a static domain name to a dynamic IP address. This allows Internet users with Cable, DSL, wireless and dialup Internet connections to host their own server, website, FTP server, mail server, game servers, or any other TCP/IP service from a PC...
- Tags: Client-server, Dynamic DNS, Tzolkin, Internet, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- V-Talking (zip)
- V-Talking is a multifunctional chat and forum for local and global networks with monitoring of network connections, encoding of the messages and embedded games. Possible work as in client-server mode, as well as in the client-client mode. Administration, delayed messages, file transfer, system of reputation, information about the users, network...
- Tags: Client-server, Network, Incremental Software, V-Talking, Networking, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-03-26
- Hands on with a Web-based SIS
- I've talked a fair amount about Web-based vs. client-server student information systems. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but as regular readers know, we made the move to the Web-based X2 Aspen SIS about a year and a half ago, after a miserable experience with Chancery's (now Pearson School...
- Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., Web, Client-server, SiS, X2, Channel Management, Servers, Marketing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Nexaweb Advance takes RIA value to the enterprise application modernization imperative
- There are so many good reasons to modernize legacy and 3GL/4GL applications that enterprises are moving wholesale to modernization activities, changing entire classes of applications, and aligning them with SOA, SaaS, data center consolidation, ITIL, and energy-conservation/green initiatives. Oh, and modernization allows you to gracefully get out...
- Tags: Client-server, Data Center, Goal, Rich Internet Application, Enterprise Application, Datacenter Transformation, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model Driven Architecture, ITIL, Storage, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Software, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It Services, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- SaaS client reaches functional parity with Client-server
- SaaS client reaches functional parity with client-serverVisokio Omniscope- hybrid desktop/web SaaS clientOmniscope is a general-purpose desktop/web hybrid Java client, which can be used with almost any SaaS to provide end-user desktop visualisation, analysis, dashboards (via multiple internal browsers) and reports/presentations via portable files which can be passed up/down the reporting...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, Visokio Omniscope, SaaS client, parity, Web, client-server
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- SaaS client reaches functional parity with Client-server
- Some purists may disagree, but my definition of a SaaS client goes outside of the browser to include a client that runs on the desktop machine so long as it's still controlled and managed from the Web. Now that Adobe has introduced AIR and Microsoft offers Silverlight, this concept has...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Client-server, Network, Client, RightNow Technologies, Software As A Service (SaaS), Real Estate, Web Browsers, Servers, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Yoozy (zip)
- Small useful program for accessing to remote computer with client-server technology. You need run server application at the remote computer and connect to this server. And now you work as with Explorer. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Client-server, Computer, Castbreeder, Servers, Productivity, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-02-18
- Itelpop Client Server (exe)
- ItelPop Client Server extends the capabilities of the standard Itelpop version. Itelpop Client Server consists of a client and a server element. The server communicates with a telephone system via a third party TAPI driver. Itelpop server acts as your telephony server on the network allowing clients to dial via...
- Tags: Client-server, Telephone System, ItelPop Client-Server, Servers, Telecommunications, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-02-07
- Introduction to Mobility XE
- This webcast provides a brief overview of NetMotion Wireless' award-winning Mobile VPN software, Mobility XE. You will learn the key features of this best-in-class solution and how this robust client-server software can help increase the productivity of your mobile workforce, optimize data and network security, and improve device and network...
- Tags: Client-server, NetMotion Wireless, Mobility, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-02-01
- From Brief: 2
- This is the second excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The board Member's IT brief. From 1.2.1: The consequences of culture There's a simple bottom line to the difference between science based computing and data processing - one that ties directly to the biggest silent...
- Tags: Wintel, Client-server, Staffing, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Data, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Mainframes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Project Clock Client/Server (exe)
- Project Clock Client/Server is an easy to use multi-user project time recording system. Project Clock is a useful application for consultants, lawyers, engineers or anyone else who must keep track of time billed to different projects. Highly accurate billing records are kept by easily punching in and out for each...
- Tags: Client-server, Billing, Project Clock Client/Server, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-01-10
- Bopup Messenger (exe)
- Secure instant messenger designed to communicate over LAN and enterprise-size networks. This clear, easy to use and lightweight IM client offers a set of corporate features and answers most of the business needs you may have. The messenger is based on a fully managed client/server platform, which provides IM logging,...
- Tags: Client-server, IM, Messenger, Instant Messaging, Servers, Internet, Online Communications, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-01-10
- AccessAnywhere Virtual VPN Appliance (exe)
- With AccessAnywhere, you no longer need to install and configure special VPN software or devices to enable secure remote access to company files, data and applications. Employees can get remote access to company Web-based information, e-mail, files, desktops and client/server applications through a standard web browser from their laptop, home...
- Tags: Client-server, Remote Access, VPNs, Telecommunications, Network Security, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-01-02
- CafePilot (zip)
- CafePilot is a cross-platform (Windows and Linux) client/server software suite that makes managing an Internet cafe of any size a breeze. CafePilot supports connections over the Internet so Internet cafe businesses with multiple branches can use a centralized server. This will allow customers to roam between branches with generated pre-paid...
- Tags: Client-server, CafePilot, Internet, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
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