The next reason why client server technology is exceptionally well supported in the Unix/Linux environment is because of scalability.

scalability is a crucial factor because as our networks grow in size, increasing the number of available work-stations, we will need some means of scaling our architecture to handle an increased volume of traffic, perhaps an increased number of clients. So from a scalability perspective, if we put 10 clients on a network and we put 1000 clients on a network, there will be a significant performance difference.

Client server technology allows us to scale these networks up to relatively large client networking farms.