Client/Server Technology for Managers
Karen Watterson · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1994
From the Publisher: 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?