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Distributed Database Systems
for linking together computers from different manufactures and formed the basis for modern local
area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). Client/server system was developed to
cope up with the rapidly changing business environment. The general forces that drive the move
to client/server systems are as follows:
A strong business requirement for decentralized computing horsepower.
Standard, powerful computers with user-friendly interfaces.
Mature, shrink-wrapped user applications with widespread acceptance.
Inexpensive, modular systems designed with enterprise class architecture, such as power
and network ...