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.

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.

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.

Client/Server systems have had a chequered historytoday's technology now makes practical implementations feasible and cost effective. Written in an approachable, yet technically rigorous manner, Client/Server: A handbook of modern computer design covers and explains the main areas of concern in the design of client/server systems. Written in the belief that computers are too important to be left to specialists, Client/Server: A handbook of modern computer design aims to de-mystify the field of client/server design. Conceived as a handbook for computer design, this book includes case studies and a glossary of client/server acronyms, all of which will aid the effective implementation of client/server systems. Client/Server: A handbook of modern computer design will be essential reading for IT professionals involved in designing client/server systems, as well as non-technical managers in industry. The authors bring more than a man-century of practical experience to this book. All were brought up in the era of mainframes, and have lived through downsizing and rightsizing. They are all involved in the design and implementation of commercial IT systems.

A guide for technology professionals to preparing a strategic plan for implementing a client/server system for an entire enterprise, at which scale different kinds of problems arise than for analogous systems at the department level. Discusses architectures, migration issues, platforms, implementati