Client/Server Computing (James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity)

The first volume in the new "James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity Series" provides a working overview of one of the most important trends in enterprise computing - client/server computing. It offers a complete and up-to-date review of the technologies required to build client/server applications within an open systems environment. Written by a staff member of the James Martin Report, Inc., this volume covers client/server architecture and its components, client/server applications, and detailed reviews of representative tools used to build graphic client/server applications. Detailing the available hardware, software, and applications that are best served by the architecture, the book includes product comparisons that match individual products to the applications for which they're best suited - analyzing the technology in terms of financial and productivity impact.