http://patricksmith.sys-con.com/ Latest News from Patrick Smith en Copyright 2009 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:21:16 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss 360 http://patricksmith.sys-con.com/node/37297 In the early '90s, many companies invested in traditional client/server architectures by building fat-client applications with rich graphics that offloaded legacy-system processing time. GUI business applications presented lower runtime costs than the CICS applications they replaced due to reduced demand on the mainframe server. This fat client would handle all business logic and data validation and then commit data to the server.<p><a href="http://patricksmith.sys-con.com/node/37297" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 EST http://patricksmith.sys-con.com/node/37297 http://patricksmith.sys-con.com/node/37297#feedback