Fat Client - Advantages of Thick Clients

Advantages of Thick Clients

  • Lower server requirements. A thick client server does not require as high a level of performance as a thin client server (since the thick clients themselves do much of the application processing). This results in drastically cheaper servers.
  • Working offline. Thick clients have advantages in that a constant connection to the central server is often not required.
  • Better multimedia performance. Thick clients have advantages in multimedia-rich applications that would be bandwidth intensive if fully served. For example, thick clients are well suited for video gaming.
  • More flexibility. On some operating systems software products are designed for personal computers that have their own local resources. Running this software in a thin client environment can be difficult.
  • Using existing infrastructure. As many people now have very fast local PCs, they already have the infrastructure to run thick clients at no extra cost.
  • Higher server capacity. The more work that is carried out by the client, the less the server needs to do, increasing the number of users each server can support.

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