Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s as personal computers became the alternative to mainframe computers.

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.

The client-server model: Not dead yet Traditional enterprise-software systems may not be trendy, but they're not going away. By Michael V. Copeland , senior writer ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of b.