Mainframe Downsizing to Upsize Your Business

Mainframe Downsizing to Upsize Your Business
Author: James B. M. Grosvenor
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This comprehensive volume presents detailed interviews of numerous MIS managers and directors from top companies who have made the transition from mainframe computers to smaller computers--showing how they did it and the trials and tribulations they experienced along the way. It provides MIS managers with frameworks and criteria for charting their own paths off the mainframe.

The ISDN Consultant

The ISDN Consultant
Author: Robert E. Lee
Publisher: Robert Lee
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1997
Genre: Computer network architectures
ISBN: 0132590522

ISDN will solve the problems every telecommuter, small business and home office user faces today: too many expensive phone lines, not enough speed and access to information. With a single ISDN line from the phone company, you can fax/phone/surf the net/videoconference at ten times the speed of one normal phone line. The CD-ROM includes the complete book text in searchable Adobe Acrobat format, plus the 500+ page North American ISDN Users Forum Application Catalog.

Rightsizing for Corporate Survival

Rightsizing for Corporate Survival
Author: Robert A. Massoudi
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Rightsizing is an informaation system (IS) philosophy and architecture based on deploying resources where they can do the most good. It involves moving IS away from centralized mainframes or stand-alone LAN environments to enterprise-wide distributed systems. Several strategies are emerging, and this book provides an overview of Sun Microsystem's strategies and recommended methodologies.

The E-business (r)evolution

The E-business (r)evolution
Author: Daniel Amor
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Throughout 2000, look to Prentice Hall PTR for the hottest new books written for technical professionals. Each month, the PH PTR Technology Focus will highlight some of today's most important technologies and the PTR titles which will help you get the job done! These key books will be supported at conventions, in magazine space ads, on the WWW, and in partnership with the finest bookstores throughout the country.

Practical DCE Programming

Practical DCE Programming
Author: Charles Knouse
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1996
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), from the Open Software Foundation (OSF), will be the predominant middleware for developing distributed applications in the foreseeable future. But the DCE application programming interface (API) is complex and a barrier to its adoption. This book provides guidelines and tools to lessen the complexity of using the DCE, and to permit it to be used from other programming languages, such as COBOL. Covers the new facilities in the OSF DCE 1.1 Release that eases the development and management of application servers, the management of network communications, the location of resources, and the enforcement of security.

Clusters for High Availability

Clusters for High Availability
Author: Peter Weygant
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780134947587

Clusters and Clustering is a popular form of distributed computing that ties together several UNIX machines which allow them to provide greater availability and flexibility of information. This text introduces Hewlett-Packard's Cluster architecture, known as the High Availability Cluster. Assuming no prior knowledge of Clusters, the book provides an accessible introduction to the terminology, issues, architectures, and solutions for building high availability systems and clusters. The hardware and software technologies and the costs associated with each are explained, and a discussion of what is involved is also provided.

SNMP++

SNMP++
Author: Peter Erik Mellquist
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1998
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

SNMP++ is Hewlett-Packard's new API for simplifying SNMP applications development using C++ and object-oriented techniques. In this book, you'll learn how SNMP++ will help you build network management applications that are more portable, powerful, extensible, and reliable. And if that's not enough, you'll also discover how SNMP++ can help you get to market faster than ever before. Written by a Hewlett-Packard engineer who helped develop SNMP++, this is the first book to cover the entire SNMP product development lifecycle, from analysis through design and implementation. Step-by-step, you'll learn how to use SNMP++ to build powerful applications with a minimum of coding effort.

The Art and Science of Smalltalk

The Art and Science of Smalltalk
Author: Simon Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

An introduction to programming in Smalltalk, covering technical background for programmers and managers and introducing some of the basic philosophy of the language. Step-by-step instructions take the reader through the basics via object-oriented programming with the Smalltalk language and its development environment. Includes a tour of the Smalltalk class library and the model-view-controller mechanism. For programmers who want to move from traditional languages to an object-oriented language. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Configuring CDE

Configuring CDE
Author: Charles Fernandez
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1996
Genre: Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)
ISBN: 9780131027244

Now that Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and SCO have all agreed to use HP VUE as their desktop, there is great interest in techniques for customizing HP VUE. This book explains how to shape HP VUE to meet the requirements of a particular work environment, and in doing so, turn the computer into a personal productivity tool. Covers front panel modifications, application integration, startup configuration, and performance tuning. For system managers and end users who want to shape their HP VUE environment.