Essential Client/Server Survival Guide

Partial table of contents: THE BIG PICTURE. Your Guide to the New World. Welcome to Client/Server Computing. The State of the Client/Server Infrastructure. CLIENTS, SERVERS, AND OPERATING SYSTEMS. Servers: Reaching for the Limits. The OS Wars. BASE MIDDLEWARE: STACKS AND NOSs. NOS: Creating the Single System Image. Stacks: Ubiquitous Communications. DCE: The Postmodern NOS. SQL DATABASE SERVERS. SQL Middleware and Federated Databases. Data Warehouses: Information Where You Want It. CLIENT/SERVER TRANSACTION PROCESSING. The Magic of Transactions. TP-Lite or TP-Heavy? CLIENT/SERVER GROUPWARE. Lotus Notes. CLIENT/SERVER WITH DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS. Object Request Brokers. Object Database Management Systems. DSOM and SOMobjects. DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT. Client/Server Distributed System Management. Distributed System Management Standards. BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER. Client/Server Tools and Application Development. Trademarks. Index.Orfali, Robert is the author of 'Essential Client/Server Survival Guide' with ISBN 9780471131199 and ISBN 0471131199.