Differences between SharePoint Client Object Model vs Server Object Model

While developing one of the web services requirements I was so confused about which classes and object model to used – client object model or server object model. Microsoft provided many control and functionalities for client object model into SharePoint 2010.

After searching little bit online, I have found out that for my web service requirements – server side object model is best (i.e. SPSite, SPWeb).

Here are some good reference links from where we can find the differences between two object model:

http://sharesilver.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-client-object-model/

http://www.learningsharepoint.com/forum/sharepoint-2010-end-user-issues/client-object-model-vs-server-object-model-sharepoint-2010/

http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com/2010/03/sharepoint-2010-client-object-model.html