Tying business needs to technology

The workstation was also home to business logic components. These translated the data from the database into useful business information as well as translating user input into the database transactions required to update the database. Since both the GUI and business logic was hosted on the workstation, the moniker ‘fat-client’ was coined to refer to the relatively heavy computing resources required. Later, the term ‘rich-client’ replaced ‘fat-client’. Deploying rich-client applications requiring a heavy workstation footprint has proved problematic in global deployment situations. So-called remote terminal technologies like Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services have been widely adopted as expedient measures to ease the deployment of legacy rich-client applications. Resistance to remote terminal technologies has been mounting due to the additional cost, licensing, and technical knowledge required to utilise such technologies.