Surveys suggest that businesses using client server technology are already seeing acceptable payoffs. The number of companies using client/server for critical production applications surged to almost 50% in 1996. And partitioning, with its intense focus on efficient, flexible communication between clients and servers, is one of the key advances that has made client/server an architecture worth using. However, there is a problem with partitioning. Most enterprise application development tools offer partitioning, yet each has its own scheme.
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