Client/Server Technology for Managers - Softcover

Watterson, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201409208 ISBN 13: 9780201409208

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1994

Synopsis

Client/Server Technology for Managers concisely explains in nontechnical terms the uses, abuses, technology, and process of client/server computing. This book gives you a framework for decision making and explains the "big picture" of client/server computing, so that you can assess your company or organization's needs and opportunities and successfully employ this new technology to solve real-world professional challenges.Client/Server Technology for Managers enables you to create an informed client/server strategic plan for your business or organization. This book integrates explanations, principles, and methods with dozens of short "snapshot" case studies illustrating client/server in action.Client/Server Technology for Managers will help you harness this very powerful but potentially confusing part of today's computing landscape.Client/Server Technology for Managers will help you answer questions like these: * Are mainframes really obsolete? * Can I move existing mainframe software onto smaller computers? * How are client/server, downsizing, and enterprise computing related? * Where does reengineering fit in? * What does "object-oriented" mean? * What's SQL? * Do I need middlewear? * Should I get a data warehouse? * What's an "open system"? * Do I need parallel processing? * Can I trust UNIX and PC LANs? * How long will it take my programmers to learn the new methods? * Should I consider outsourcing? * Where do I start? * How much is all this going to cost me? 0201409208B04062001

About this title

About the Author

Karen Watterson is an independent San Diego-based writer and consultant specializing in client/server issues. She writes a monthly column for Data Management Review, is editor of Pinnacle Publishing's Visual Basic Developer and SQL Server Professional newsletters, and has written Visual Basic Database Programming and Client/Server Technology for Managers from Addison-Wesley.

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From the Back Cover

Client/Server Technology for Managers concisely explains in nontechnical terms the uses, abuses, technology, and process of client/server computing. This book gives you a framework for decision making and explains the "big picture" of client/server computing, so that you can assess your company or organization's needs and opportunities and successfully employ this new technology to solve real-world professional challenges.

Client/Server Technology for Managers enables you to create an informed client/server strategic plan for your business or organization. This book integrates explanations, principles, and methods with dozens of short "snapshot" case studies illustrating client/server in action.

Client/Server Technology for Managers will help you harness this very powerful but potentially confusing part of today's computing landscape.

Client/Server Technology for Managers will help you answer questions like these:

• Are mainframes really obsolete?
• Can I move existing mainframe software onto smaller computers?
• How are client/server, downsizing, and enterprise computing related?
• Where does reengineering fit in?
• What does "object-oriented" mean?
• What's SQL?
• Do I need middlewear?
• Should I get a data warehouse?
• What's an "open system"?
• Do I need parallel processing?
• Can I trust UNIX and PC LANs?
• How long will it take my programmers to learn the new methods?
• Should I consider outsourcing?
• Where do I start?
• How much is all this going to cost me?

0201409208B04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201409208
• ISBN 13: 9780201409208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256