The client-server model organizes network traffic using a client application and client devices. Network clients send messages to a server to make requests of it.

SproutCore aims to address the client side of the client-server model which provides one step in developing applications for the "future of the web".

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.