Research Catalog

Title

Integrating personal computers in a distributed client-server environment / [edited by] Raman Khanna ; [contributors, Tsvi Gal and others ; foreword by Bob Metcalfe].

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall PTR, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Khanna, Raman

Description

xxv, 662 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Client/server computing
• Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
• Microcomputers
• Computers Networks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Knowledge Desktop / Tsvi Gal and Raman Khanna -- 2. The Emerging Component-Based Desktop: Key Trends and Issues / Frank Gens -- 3. Middleware: Connecting PCs to Distributed Services / John R. Rymer -- 4. Cross-Platform Database Access Using SQL / Joe Celko -- 5. Cross-Platform Systems Management / Asa Lanum -- 6. Desktop Management / Michael Day -- 7. Systems Administration Applications / Asa Lanum -- 8. Mobile Computing and Telecommuting / David Strom -- 9. Email Architecture / Dan Heller -- 10. Integrating Messaging and Groupware in a Unified Information-Sharing Environment / Greg Lobdell -- 11. Managing Roles and Responsibilities in Cyberspace / Bernard L. Hayes -- 12. Leveraging Middleware Standards for Distributed Database Access / Kurt Dahm -- 13. Personal Computer Integration in the Andrew System / Wallace Colyer and Walter Wong -- 14. PC Integration in an OSF/DCE Environment / Ted Hanss --
• 15. Client-Server at Brigham and Women's Hospital: An Enterprise of PCs / Pasha Roberts -- 16. The Digital IT Infrastructure for Distributed Client-Server Computing / George Champine -- 17. Managing the Unmanageable: The University of Washington Approach / Terry Gray and Brad Greer -- 18. Analysis of Vendor Strategies / Allen Falcon -- 19. The Microsoft Strategy for the Integration of Personal Computers into Distributed Computing Environments / L. Gregory Leake -- 20. Novell's Strategy and its Implications for Corporate Client-Server Computing / Michael Dortch -- 21. IBM LAN Systems PC Integration Strategy / Kim Wilkens -- 22. Digital's PC Integration Strategy / John Parodi -- 23. Hewlett-Packard's Personal Computer Integration Strategy / Paul J. Rafter -- 24. SunSoft's PC Integration Strategy / Phil Rosenzweig -- App. A Systems Management Product Usage and Plans -- App. B Attributes.

ISBN

0133051528

LCCN

94049667

OCLC

• 31865455
• ocm31865455

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries