Client-side characteristics

Three characteristics drive the requirements for client applications:

• Use of existing software
• Division of operations between client and server
• User access to the client/server interface

Distributed systems are little more than `big disks' unless they separate processing tasks among the various client and server components of the system. However, this means that some operations previously associated with the client (i.e., analysis application) should be moved to the server.

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