With technology revolutionising the way we work, and with the continual flow of new systems, this briefing provides busy executives the perfect introduction to IT systems today. Distributed Computer Systems covers everything from the internet and world wide web, client/server computer, groupware to data warehousing. It provides you with a framework and guidelines, to help you outline and plan your future IT requirements.

Contents include:

The changing nature of IT

An introduction to client/server computer

Understanding LANs, WANs and the internet

Organising data

• relational database and structured query language
• data warehousing and groupware
• world wide web

Developing applications

• tools, methods and languages