GLOBAL vendors Hewlett Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation believe the concept of client-server computing provides tremendous results for their companies.
Casey Poon, a managing consultant for Hewlett Packard Hong Kong says: 'HP comes up with a strong support for its customers with the open systems concept of the client-server, where the customer has to have the choice of fitting into different environments.' 'The client-server means the ready availability of data and more manageability of data. One of the important aspects of the open client-server is to be able to operate in a heterogeneous multi-vendor environment,' Guruswami Jambunathan, a consultant with Digital Equipment Corporation, said.
The other important aspect, he said, was scaleability.
'Now Digital is more organised with products like servers, workstations, software and services to provide a better solution,' Albert Li, a director of software business of Digital Equipment Corporation, said.
'HP believes in the concept of multi-client support and ensuring that the customer choice be fulfilled is of first importance,' Anthnoy Lai, marketing manager of Hewlett Packard Hong Kong, said.
'A lot of people get into client-server computing to save cost,' Mr Lai said.