Re: News You Can Use
- Posted by euphoric <euphoric at cklester.com> Jan 29, 2004
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Derek Parnell wrote: >One advantage of smart-client/server systems is that some of the computing work >can be offloaded from the server to the client machine. One of the disadvantages >is that it increases network traffic as a lot more information needs to be moved >between the client and server machines. > > It doesn't seem like that much of an increase in traffic would be necessary, unless I'm missing something. If you have an app running on a client PC, it will simply be sending data to the server, and vice versa, just like in a browser/server app situation now. Where's the "lot more information?"