Client Server Computing For Technical Professionals

This unique sourcebook for technical professionals describes the concepts, common applications, and design principles for building and trasitioning to client/server architecture. The authors discuss the features and problems of client/server products and offer suggestions via case studies. Vital standards information is also included.

Client-Server Technology for Managers succinctly and accessibly explains the uses, abuses, technology, and process of client-server computing. The book highlights successful and unsuccessful applications of client-server technology and helps professionals formulate appropriate strategies for their own organizations.

About the Book: The book covers the detail concepts of Client Server Architectural aspects, its application components, its relationship with database, development tools associated with it and technologies used to develop client server systems. The book will serve as a complete text for all undergraduate (BCA, B. Sc., BCS and B. Tech.) and post graduate students (MCA, M. Tech. and MS) of Computer Science and Engineering students of various Technical Universities. Also the scope and depth of topics covered in the book, with its straightforward and often humorous delivery, make this book worth.

Explains some of the more important developments happening in this field and does so in a manner that even the newest practitioner can understand. Ties together all the diverse elements of client/server (C/S) computing. Discusses which applications can be downsized and how to go about it. Describes numerous software products available for implementing C/S architecture including front-end tools, back-end servers, networking software, application development environments, security and systems management tools. Contains a significant amount of case histories which illustrate exactly how C/S systems are implemented.

This text explains how products and services from a wide variety of suppliers can be integrated to produce a distributed computing system. It shows how organizations can build sophisticated data communication networks that are integrated with widespread data processing resources. The text addresses a balanced field of hardware (transmission, switching, computing equipment) and software (architecture, protocols, operating systems and middleware), and shows why software is the vital ingredient to produce interoperability in a world of incompatible systems and services.

Network Re-Engineering focuses primarily on strategies for establishing and maintaining cross-platform connectivity and interoperability within corporate networks. It provides network professionals with both sound re-engineering strategy and abundant hands-on technical information on all the latest trends, including IBM's new post-SAA enterprise computing strategies.

An in-depth analysis of client/server computing and its implications for the future of information processing. Features expert tips and advice on designing and implementing the appropriate application and technical architecture.