This work explains how to deliver effective enterprise-wide client/server applications. It reviews all the current strategic applications development products, as well as tactical applications products such as PowerBuilder. The text offers both operational and technical guidance for transferring applications from mainframes to networks. It identifies likely problems in migration and considers the appropriate solutions for existing systems without requiring premature capital outlay. The book should interest IS managers, CIOs, software engineers, consultants, and system designers and analysts.