ContractExpress is delivered in server based and Software as a service format.
It was extended by chess4me to a server based chess program extension before finally incorporated under phpChess Limited in 2005.
On October 4th, 2012, the game reached a record-breaking 500,000 concurrent players online on one server based in Russia.
And servers based on low-cost technology from the personal computer world - Intel-compatible microprocessors - are eating into Sun's business.
An open server based architecture and having been developed in Java, provided the basis for subsequent releases to introduce greater levels of functionality.
Therefore it would be 'unacceptable' that the site was hosted on servers based in France.
However the open source project continued, with the servers based at University College London.
Prices for servers based on the new processors will cost $2,100 to $8,000, roughly half what they would have cost two years ago, the company said.
This can be critical when using server based applications such as web servers, ftp servers, etc.
It is similar to server based computing only in the fact that one mainframe is supporting multiple users.