Microsoft and IDG Books Worldwide , The UDG Books Strategies Advantage Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1995 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's red and white printed wrappers small In-4 1 vol. - 546 pages
2nd edition (1995) Contents, Chapitres : Author, Acknowledgments, Contents, Foreword, xxii, Text, 524 pages - Introduction - 1. Crisis and revolution : Midlife crisis for an industry - The business revolution of the 90's - Business revolution, technical revolution, the client/server office of the future - 2. The technology, demystifying computers and networks : GUI, UI, can computers be usable ? - The server, client-server the first time around - The local area network, a new type of computer - Wide area networks, connecting the World - The mainframe, the technical shift to distributed systems - Database, the concept - The technical landscape - 3. Designing and building client/server systems : A conceptual framework for the future - Application architecture, a better way of designing applications - Designing distributed systems, the cooperating component revolution - A client/server methodology - Tools : Implements for building systems - What distributed systems are made of ? - 4. The global village - Index wrappers very lightly yellowing, minor wear at the corners of the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings, inside is fine