Take a tour through the world of client/server technology with this comprehensive guide. You'll learn how client/server computing is reshaping the computer industry such as client/server issues involved in data warehousing, using the internet, and using distributed objects. Additional topics include network operating systems, middleware, databases, TP monitors, groupware, and system management. Full of information, yet witty and fun to read, the survival guide offers you hundreds of illustrations and cartoons designed to make navigating this new technology painless and fun. This book is the right choice for systems analysts, programmers, managers, marketing and sales people, instructors, and students--anyone who needs to keep up with new directions in the computing scene.