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to: MIKE BILOW
from: RUNE JOHANSEN
date: 1997-11-11 10:19:00
subject: File server vs Application Server

>> If you use NT can you tell me how to switch from one mode to
>> another ? That is switch from File Server Mode to Application
>> Server Mode.
>NT is NT; it does not have modes in this sense.  If a server CPU actually 
runs
> an application, then we call this an application server.  If a server 
imply
>copies files to the workstation so that the application runs on the 
workstatio
> CPU, we call this a file server.
I would hesitate a little with this definition, as all tasks on a NT system 
is an application. :-))
My "definition" of a application server is a machine that runs applications 
that are processing stuff, besides file and print services, like an Oracle 
database, a news service, a Exchange service, a SQL database etc. In other 
words, that runs applications that are to be served to other machines than 
itself. If you run Word or Excel on the file server interactively, you don't 
have a application server.
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