클라이언트 / 서버 환경에서 분산 어플리케이션의 기본유형과 적용기준

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Client/Server technology is now regarded as a general solution to many problems inherent in legacy systems in the past. New concepts, technologies, and hardware solutions are pouring into the market almost everyday. However, several key questions, ironically, are still left answered and does not get much attention: What are the possible types of the client/server systems? What kind of business applications best fits to the client/server? How about the relationship between business characteristics and types of the client/server? Characteristics of business application determine the optimal type of client/server system. This study aims at providing guidelines for selecting the optimal client/server systems based on characteristics of business application. In doing so, this paper found out that there are fourteen different kinds of client/server systems, categorized the application characteristics into four major and sixty-one detailed items, and generated a five-scale fitness table based upon the experts` opinions between business characteristics and types of client/server systems.