To provide a system for performing receipt of a program from a server and updating thereof without stopping a business processing on a client while reducing the load of a network by dispersing the delivery of the program to the client.

An updating program 21 for updating a client program started in a client computer 3 is stored in a server computer 2, and the load of the network 4 is monitored in the client computer 3. The updating program 21 is received from the server computer 3 on the basis of the load of the network 4. Further, the starting state of the client program such as whether the client program is starting or not, or whether its starting is scheduled or not is monitored from the state of a job or process to determine whether the updating of the client program is possible or not, and the updating is performed by use of the updating program 21.

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