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How do workstations differ from servers?

Workstations (regular PCs) differ from servers in several important ways. What are they?

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A workstation is made for end user capabilities, is built for front-end applications and requires less overhead.

A server is made for mission critical business applications; network infrastructure services and other back end services.

This was first published in October 2002

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