Client/server outsourcing catches on

Babson College is among the growing number of organizations looking to selectively farm out construction and maintenance of complex client/server infrastructures.

The Babson Park, Mass., school has outsourced the design and deployment of a campuswide network to support, among other things, a client/server-based data warehouse application. This, in turn, has freed up internal information systems staffers to focus on building and customizing business applications.

Deciding which client/server components should be outsourced is one of the themes at Hurwitz Consulting Group, Inc.'s industry conference "Scaling Walls: Matching Business Requirements to Client/Server Applications Development," which begins Aug. 7 in Cambridge, Mass.

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