Server Systems and Distributed Systems | Advanced Database Systems | BE IT Part - 1

Server Systems:
A server operating system also named a server OS, is an operating system specifically
intended to run on servers, which are specific computers that work within a client/server
design to serve the demands of client machines on the web. ... Other common server operating
systems include Unix and z/OS.

Distributed Systems:

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked
computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one
another. The components interact with one another in order to achieve a common goal.
Three significant characteristics of distributed systems are
1. Concurrency of components
2. lack of a global clock
3. independent failure of components.

Examples of distributed systems vary from SOA-based systems to massively multiplayer
online games to peer-to-peer applications.

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