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As this decade draws to a close, companies can be placed into one of two broad categories based on their information systems: companies who are implementing packaged applications software or [...]

Certificate of Merit BEC/Allwaste is a rapidly growing earth-moving company that has ongoing projects all over the country. But management realized there were gaping holes in the accounting/ business system [...]

Most enterprise app dev tools can build an n-tier partitioned app, But the business problems you can solve with that partitioned app vary markedly from tool to tool. LIKE SO […]

Systems Administrators at Texaco's refineries faced a nasty problem: Oracle databases were ballooning in size, causing users problems as they reached table- and index-size limits, while runaway processes dragged down […]

In the government offices of Santa Clara County, Calif., client-server systems grow like weeds along the freeway. The county, home to a good chunk of Silicon Valley, spends an estimated […]

Erik Goldoff, a computer specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, once nearly lost track of $1.5 million worth of client-server equipment. Randall Kessenich, the local […]

Welcome to the client-server frontier, where the old rules don't apply and the new ones aren't finished yet. To find out who's on the leading edge and why, one financial [...]

Back then, they called that kind of stuff 'operations management,' with names like 'data center management,' 'systems management,' 'performance management,' and 'network management.' A locker full of down-in-the-engine-room mainframe tools […]

Robert Knepp doesn't pretend to know everything about distributed client/server computing. But the IS manager says he does know one thing: the tools that are available today for performing key […]

A demonstration is presented on how to automate generating and emailing Word documents through ASP.NET and MySQL. ASP.NET can be used to provide a Web-based system, one need both a user interface and back-end code. Further, MySQL database is searched to determine which clients are actively trading and when the next inspection is due.

The CFO Looks you straight in the eye and asks the tough question: 'End of the day, bottom line, are you going to spend more money on client/server computing than […]

When client/server systems bog down or don't operate as expected, IS managers tend to check everything but the clients. Several months after revamping every aspect of its computer operations, a […]

Client/server deployment requires one piece of hardware you probably won't find in the computer store: a new hat rack. The challenges of setting strategic directions and policies, establishing standard platforms, […]

CLIENT-SERVER IS A FALSE IDOL, BUT CULTURAL CHANGE TAKES TIME I'M WRITING THIS JUST BEFORE PASSOVER, THE JEWISH HOLIDAY commemorating the exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. The story […]

IS managers at time, inc. were caught in a catch-22. They needed to monitor performance of a network that supports about 8,000 users at 40 sites for the publishing division […]

The year 2000 is coming, but in the client/server world no one seems too worried. Both users and the budding year 2000 compliance industry, made up of service firms and […]

Lessons from the field can help you achieve success. Client/server computing is how business is being conducted today. It gives us the access to information that we never thought possible [...]

Client-server technology can bring tremendous benefits to banks but successful implementation requires careful planning. Steve Williams of M One Inc notes that banks risk creating system anarchy if different divisions buy different client-server tools. Another problem faced by banks is the lack of qualified personnel who can help select and implement highly complex client-server systems. Banks must not underestimate infrastructure and system support requirements when implementing client-server technology., Tom Oxendine Executive vice president, systems, Olivetti North America, Spokane, Wash. The benefits of client-server technology can lead to serious challenges. There are numerous choices at every turn, which can [...]

If you're not measuring it, you're not managing it.' When it comes to client/server metrics, truer words have never been spoken. 'The heat is on in the corporate world, and […]

OOP is so simple to use that end users can write all their own apps. And application performance is no problem in client/server computing. 0 for 3, huh? And here's […]

PUT THAT HARDWARE DOWN! Before you throw another server on the LAN or just one more processor into your SMP machine in a desperate attempt to solve your client/server performance […]

USE HARDWARE TO FILL DBMS TOOL GAPS The client/server world is brand-new for companies planning to rightsize their database operations, and that shows in the slim availability of database-management tools […]

Monitoring tools may slow performance IS managers walk a tightrope when they take responsibility for SAP AG R/3 and other distributed applications that run businesses. They must load tools on […]

Now is the time for inaction. Catch up on unfinished projects. Put out fires. Learn Java. Wait for the emerging technologies to mature and the developing controversies to play out. […]

Information systems executives claim they are having a tough time quantifying returns on investment (ROI), especially ones that improve overall processes and customer service but don't provide clear cost savings […]

In the second in this series on hot topics in software, Richard Sharpe explains how the revolution in client/server brought with it problems in systems management It did not take […]