An excerpt From:
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,86122,00.html
2. CLIENT/SERVER COMPUTING
Why it's sinking: Two-tier computing with fat clients had its day, but there are now better ways to distribute data and computing power for flexibility, ease of maintenance and business continuity.
The original client/server scheme—where the application's visual presentation and business logic reside on the desktop, and data resides on a server—is an idea whose time has passed. It's being replaced by Web browser clients, n-tier systems and Web services.
and then propagated by:
http://www.infotechadvisor.com/current_issue/index.cfm?#r5
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