The lack of management and maintenance controls and the difficulty in trying to deploy enterprise-wide applications to run on different client computers -- PCs, Macintoshes, UNIX workstations -- has reduced the benefits of client/server.

• 缺少管理和维护控制以及难以部署运行于不同客户计算机（PC机、MAC机和Unix工作站）的企业范围的应用程序，而降低了客户机/服务器带来的好处。