Client-server networks are best suited to organisations with many computers, or to situations where many computers need access to the same information. Many schools use this type of model.

Client-server became legacy because of the Internet and the web. Client-server applications were built for local area networks using chatty, proprietary protocols that worked in a local-area ...

Software that runs in the user's computer. Contrast with "server program," which runs in a server in the network. See client and server. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...