ALSO CALLED: Platforms and Servers, Server Operating System, Servers, Server Platforms, and Server Operating Systems DEFINITION:
1) In information technology, a server is a computer program that provides services to other computer programs (and their users) in the same or other computers.
2) The computer that a server program runs in is also frequently referred to as a server (though it may be used for
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SERVER SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued): … other purposes as well).
3) In the client/server programming model, a server is a program that awaits and fulfills requests from client programs in the same or other computers. A given application in a computer may function as a client with requests for services from other programs and also as a server of requests from other programs.
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