A Generalized Way Of Thinking About N-Tier Client/Server Architectures

Source: DCI’s Database and Client/Server World   Published: Mar 1995

This white paper explains the evolution of computing architectures from file server approaches like dBASE through 2-tier and 3-tier client/server computing. The paper establishes an approach for explaining and understanding n-tier client/server computing approaches, which have become very popular in the Internet era. The paper’s discussion of transaction monitors foreshadowed the evolution of web server technologies. (Privately published to attendees of DCI’s Database and Client/Server World, 1995.)
Download PDF