The basic characteristics of client/server architectures are:<br><br> 1. Combination of a client or front-end portion that interacts with the user, and a server or back-end portion that interacts with the shared resource. The client process contains solution-specific logic and provides the interface between the user and the rest of the application system. The server process acts as a software engine that manages shared resources such as databases, printers, modems, or high powered processors.<br> 2. The front-end task and back-end task have fundamentally different requirements for computing resources such as processor speeds, memory, disk speeds and capacities, and input/output devices.<br> 3. The environment is typically heterogeneous and multi-vendor. The hardware platform and operating system of client and server are not usually the same. Client and server processes communicate through a well-defined set of standard application program interfaces (API?s) and RPC?s.<br> 4. An important characteristic of client-server systems is scalability. They can be scaled horizontally or vertically. Horizontal scaling means adding or removing client workstations with only a slight performance impact. Vertical scaling means migrating to a larger and faster server machine or multiservers.<br>

The client?server characteristic describes the relationship of cooperating programs in an application. The server component provides a function or service to one or many clients, which initiate requests for such services.

hi!
i am noor siddiqui, i am gonna to tell you client server architecture...
the client server acrchitecture can be basis of two point:
1. hardware server
2.software server
1:hardware server
it is server that has high hardware configuration, i mean plenty of RAM, high speed processor scalablity and motherboard with high speed
2: software server
software provides interface to configure the task will be carried out. softeware server includes oprating system such as windows server 2003 , sever 2008

in the client/server architecture,
client is request maker and server is request accepter (supplier),

in client server environment

your network is centralized.

you can easily provide services and control the users and devices.

you can apply policies at the user end.

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