I want to have 1-tier client/server architecture using ubuntu edition. I have no idea how to proceed. I have many doubts:
1. Which Ubuntu edition will be used i.e. desktop or server?
2. Which manual/book(s)/paper will best describe to proceed further?

What does this mean? A client server architecture can take a huge number of different forms and do many many different things.

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Just to brief about the 3, 2 and single tier architecture.

In single tier system only server part is present
client part is missing or not present.

In 2 tier system application server is missing.

In three tier system it will be like,
1st tier user interface ==> 2nd tier application server ==> 3rd tier database

In my opinion you can opt for a lot of distros for the purpose, but I usually prefer to use Centos or Debian

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Hi,
I want to know
1.whether it is possible to to design and develop one-tier client server architecture on ubuntu platform? if so
2.Will client and server be sharing same OS or different? If different, then why?
3. Can you suggest any link/white paper/any pdf file which can help me understand properly one-tier c/s system?

Thank you for previous response, Willing to like your response to these questions.
In advance
Thanks

1. Of course, you can run everything on a single box if you wish, software permitting, it really doesn't make sense to ask if it's possible... it's just computers.
2. It doesn't / shouldn't matter, but obviously depends utterly on what it is you're serving and what protocols are used to interface with it from the client side.
3. What's to know? You simply don't have more layers in the environment than other (better) designed systems. You've given SO little information we really can't comment. You don't set out to design a "one tier system" you set out to build "a new website for our ecommerce" or "a mail solution".

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