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"Strategic Database Technology", Alan R. Simon, 1995, 1-55860-264-X
%A   Alan R. Simon
%C   340 Pine Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA   94104-3205
%D   1995
%G   1-55860-264-X
%I   Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
%O   +1-415-578-9911 fax: +1-415-578-0672 lschneider@mkp.com http://mkp.com
%P   446
%T   "Strategic Database Technology: Management for the Year 2000"
 
Simon has put together an excellent overview of the promising, but possibly
underutilized, database technologies.  Most of these are already available, but
are either poorly understood or have relatively few trained practitioners. 
This book is neither a training nor development guide, but a series of
management and executive level briefing papers on the newly evolving forms.
 
The twenty three chapters in the book are divided into sections discussing
distributed systems and client/server, object-oriented technologies, languages,
supporting functions, and future trends.  The material is presented in a non-
technical language, and provides analysis of both strengths and weaknesses. 
Each chapter provides a beginning summary, conclusions, outlook and further
reading suggestions.  (Oddly, the physical format of the starting summary makes
the chapters diffcult to read.  Instead of simply printing the inaugural
material and then the chapter contents, the "front matter" takes up the top
half of the page for up to eight pages into the chapter.  In order to read the
actual content, you then half to flip back again.)
 
(Sorry, guys, no help on the "Year 2000" problem.)
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKSDTY2K.RVW   960318

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