Meeting Manager software that provides the Meeting window and sharing windows during a meeting. Two types of Meeting Manager software are available: platform-specific Meeting Manager and the Java Meeting Manager. See also Java Meeting Manager; Meeting Manager for Mac OS, Meeting Manager; platform-specific Meeting Manager; Meeting Manager for UNIX; Meeting Manager for Windows.
software installed on a local drive which sends and reads email messages, e.g. Simeon, Pine, Netscape Communicator.
A computer program or software that requests information from a server computer. Software responsible for interacting with a user, such as displaying data and accepting keyboard or mouse input. For example one way to view web pages is to use the netscape client program from a microcomputer, netscape interacts with a world-wide-web server.
Web browsers such as Internet Explorer*, Navigator*, Mosaic*, etc., are all client software programs used for accessing the Internet. Each client must have software compatible with the server in order to communicate properly.
The software (e.g.: a browser or a mail client) that receives data from a server computer.
is software designed to run using information provided by a server. This commonly refers to software deisgned to run on a user's home computer and access the internet via a SLIP/PPP connection. These programs send out requests for various kinds of data to the various servers on the net and receive data in return. A web browser is a client program which sends requests for web pages to an http server on another machine. The server program then looks for the pages on its local machine and sends them to the browser, which displays them.