Harry Zhang

In the past decade, the software industry has evolved significantly, especially in the enterprise application development area. And the biggest evolution has been the transition from client/server applications to Web based applications. Ten years ago, PCs were just starting to connect with networks, operating systems were starting to provide better graphical user interfaces, and the business database was beginning to dominate the enterprise application market. Back then, the business application developer created client/server applications. That type of application usually stored data in a central database server, with graphical user interface applications running on the client PC. The client application collected inputs from the end user and accessed the data from a central server. Since it made use of the rich user interface of the operating system and ran on the... (more)