BKCLSVMG.RVW 950215 "Client/Server: A Manager's Guide", Laurence Shafe, 1995, 0-201-42790-7, U$22.75 %A Laurence Shafe %C 1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867-9984 %D 1995 %G 0-201-42790-7 %I Addison-Wesley Publishing Company %O U$22.75 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 %P 125 %T "Client/Server: A Manager's Guide" This is an advertising pamphlet for IBM technology, and for a development tool of the author's. Shafe defines client/server as anyone else would define a local area network. That is unimportant, since what he *really* wants to talk about is "high-end" client/server--which anyone else would define as client/server; distributed access to, and processing of, information. Chapter one is the big sell, with "rapid development of responsive applications" becoming a mantra. Chapter two proves what we began to suspect in chapter one--Shafe's model of client/server is strictly based on terminal access to a mainframe. IBM's technology, is, rather arbitrarily, "proved" to be superior to everything else, in chapters three (operating systems), four (development tools) and five (project methodology). The book closes with a set of case studies which are every bit as incisive and analytical as an Away infommercial. I don't know how IBM conned Addison-Wesley into fronting for this. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKCLSVMG.RVW 950215 ============== Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "virtual information" Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | - technical description of Research into rslade@cue.bc.ca | marketing info disguised User p1@CyberStore.ca | as technical description Security Canada V7K 2G6 | - Greg Rose