Remember Client/Server?

"The people were standing all around
at a shotgun wedding here in town" - Roy "C"

First of all I want to make it very clear that Client Server is not a buzz word ....it is two buzz words.

The 'What is In A Name' Koan

By the way; what happened to the phrase 'Master/Slave', and why did we drop it in favour of client/server?

If the press and the guru's are to be believed then everyone was building client server applications, so how is it I didn't know anybody who has one in and working? Every week there were stories about another spectacular failure of client server. I wonder how many there are now?

What is Client/Server Anyway?

In a recent survey the following answers were given to the question 'what is client/server?';

The Addition of LAN's to a Host

Diminishing Role of the Host

Increased End User Computing