Contents at a Glance Part 1.  The Big Picture   78 Pages Part 2.  Clients, Servers, and Operating Systems   44 Pages Part 3. Base Middleware: Stacks and NOSs   80 Pages Part 4. SQL Database Servers  112 Pages Part 5. Client/Server Transaction Processing   66 Pages Part 6. Client/Server Groupware    62 Pages Part 7. Client/Server With Distributed Objects  108 Pages Part 8. Client/Server and the Internet 100 Pages Part 9. Distributed System Management    52 Pages Part 10. Bringing It All Together    22 Pages

It's as savvy, informative, and entertaining as anything you are likely to read on the subject. Client/server isn't one technology but many--remote SQL, TP, message-oriented groupware, distributed objects, and so on. Like the proverbial blind men feeling the elephant, most of us have a hard time seeing the whole picture. The authors succeed brilliantly in mapping the elephant.

Jon Udell, BYTE Magazine

Absolutely the finest book on client/server on the market today.

Charmingly accessible.

Available at Bookstores Everywhere For more information visit http://www.wiley.com/compbooks ISBN: 0471-31615-6, 754 pages, 1999, $39.99 US / $62.50 CAN