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Title: David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development by David S. Linthicum ISBN: 0-471-17467-X Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 09 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of the Best
Comment: This book provides a great overview of some very complex technology. I think the author does a great job in putting this technology in terms that one can understand and apply in his or her own enterprise.

This book covers the entire scope of client/server including explaining the application of CASE technology and how to test a client/server system.

If client/server is in your future, this one has to be on your shelf.

Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of time and money
Comment: An incoherent collection of superficial technical jargon.
If you are looking for guidance in client/server or intranet development there will be nothing of value in this book.

Rating: 1
Summary: This guide is lost.
Comment: I'm a programmer, and I bought this book hoping to learn something that I could use. After reading through this book, I realize that I'm no better off...

The author attempts to sound intelligent by using all the buzz-words he can muster, as if his intended audience is incompetent software managers who lust for the latest technical jargon.

I didn't actually read every word in this book. I read the first 7 chapters and was shocked to find that I was flipping pages faster and faster. I was reading the paragraph headers and maybe a paragraph here and there. Page after page I began to feel swindled. Its hard not to. Every topic that the author describes seems like an explanation of the obvious. And then he moves on to describe some other technology. I found myself thinking, ... Is there any *real* information in here?'

I was looking for detailed information about client/server application development, and I never found it. The author covers so many different technologies in the client/server world (database servers, client development tools, third generation client development tools, specialized development tools, multi-platform development tools, smalltalk tools, file-oriented DB tools, reporting tools, CASE tools) that I became lost in the sea (ocean) of sheer possibility. The discussion of the tools was shallow and cliche and lasted from chapter 8 through chapter 15. Thats over 150 pages - roughly 1/3 of the book.

That's not to say that the remaining 2/3 are particularly useful either. After a while, the chapters start looking the same.

For the programmers who actually have to implement client/server systems: this book is little more than a product/tool catalog.

For the managers: this book is a must have if you want to impress upper-management with your new client/server vocabulary.

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