For advisory firms both large and small, responding to prospective client inquiries can require a significant time commitment. A multiperson office may have a full-time dedicated staff member ...

Over the past 10 years, few technologies have revolutionized IT and computing the way virtualization has. IT tasks and workflows that once required physical, one-to-one interaction with servers and ...

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Prior to the arrival of the .Net framework, users often encountered two major problems when trying to deploy and maintain rich-client applications in the Windows environment. Ilya Bukshteyn, a group ...

Thick and thin clients each have major strengths and weaknesses when compared to each other. Often, the strength of one is the weakness of the other. In general, thick clients are functionally rich ...

At first glance, building a real-time application may sound like a daunting proposition, one that involves technical challenges as well as a significant financial investment, especially when you have ...

One of the advantages to using a GNU/Linux system is the separation of the display system from the underlying operating system. The Linux desktop has at its core the X Window System, a software ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...