Client/Server Architecture

by Alex Berson

With new coverage of middleware, Windows 95, and Windows NT - not to mention the hot areas of massively parallel processing, data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining - industry expert Alex Berson updates his authoritative guide to the distributed computing environment. The Second Edition brings you up to speed on these and other swiftly changing areas in client/server architecture at a level that virtually guarantees you'll speed system implementation and improve performance.
Client/Server Architecture, Second Edition, covers components, open systems, specialization in both client and server, and second-generation, multi-tiered implementations of client/server systems. This updated edition also provides a management view of costs and risks in implementing client/server systems. Berson clarifies the issues of distributed objects, data warehousing, on-line analytical processing, data mining, high performance commercial computing, and client/server application development. In addition to discussing data distribution between heterogeneous databases, he illustrates data replication by examining the popular implementations offered by major vendors.

569 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1992