As small businesses experience growing pains, they often add computers to improve efficiency. Eventually, efficiency diminishes as critical information and processes spread across multiple computers.

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The idea of early computer users having an entire processor to themselves was just a fantasy. The first computer networks had all the processing power in a central mainframe, or server, to which ...

Longhorn Server and Vista are of the same ilk. Over 70% of the code in the two products is shared; in fact, Vista and Longhorn Server were being developed together for much of the Vista development ...