Client/Server Architecture (McGraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications) Book

This book is a major revision of the first edition of the Client/Server Architecture. The book describes in great details the prevailing trend in today's computing-the Client/Server architecture, including the evolution, components, the role of de-facto and industry standards and open systems, and second generation multi-tiered implementation of client/server systems. The book also provides a management view of costs and risk in implementing client/server systems. The concepts, facilities and advantages of the client/server systems are covered from the point of view of the system designers, system and application programmers, IT/MIS managers, and system integrators. The significant portion of the book is dedicated to the issues of the middleware, distributed objects, data warehouse, on-line analytical processing, data mining, high performance commercial computing, and client/server application development. The book discusses data distribution between heterogeneous databases and data replication, with the latter illustrated on popular implementation of data replication by major vendors. A practical guide to the selection of distributed DBMS products from major DBMS vendors-SYBASE, ORACLE, Informix, CA-Ingres, IBM DB2/6000, and Microsoft-is also included.Read More