Re: News You Can Use

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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.
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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?"

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