ADMS 2511 Lecture Notes - Maxtor, Nortel, Mysql

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2511
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Period of highly centralized computing under the control of professional programmers and systems operators with most elements of infrastructure provided by a single vendor (cid:224) manufacturer of hardware and software: minicomputer: middle range computer used in systems for universities, factories or research laboratories, minicomputers offered powerful machines at far lower prices making decentralized computing possible, customized to the specific needs of individual departments or business units rather than time sharing on a single huge mainframe across the organization. 2 tiered client/server architecture: multitiered (n tier): client/server network in which the work of the entire network is balanced over several different levels of servers, depending on the kind of service being requested, web server: a computer that uses web server software to house and deliver web pages for a web site, application server: software that handles all application operations between browser based computers and a company"s back end business applications or databases.