The fastest growing category of servers is what IDC calls as Application Servers. These are Web, DBMS, TP Monitor and groupware servers. ...
The fastest growing category of servers is what IDC calls as Application Servers. These are Web, DBMS, TP Monitor and groupware servers. The following figure shows the development of application servers. They started out from the department and are now spreading in two directions:
- Downward into the space held by Netware LAN servers and
- Upward into the space held by Unix servers running downsized mainframe applications.
