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Any one who bought this book: CD on the book is working? I mean if we can install and then create a database and run a 4gl program? thanks

I wanted to say how much your book (Informix on NT) helped me out last week in my installation at a large US Government facility.

After years of doing Unix installs, I started out with only basic experience using Informix on NT. But with your book as my guide, I was able to confidently do a professional install on NT.

In addition to the install, with your guidance, I was able to configure and use On-BAR for the first time.

Also, I used your book as a basis for overall Informix

admin training. I am sure your book will be THE technical resource there for years to come.

Anyway, thanks again for providing such a great technical resource. Your interview at the end with Gary Kelley was fascinating.

If you read the "ReadMe" file that accompanies the disk, you will see directions to the Informix site where you will get the license to install the engine software.

While I've written both VB & C++ components, I must say that this book is written solely for VB programmers. In that context, the ADO coverage is good for beginners & reaches as far as paging, batch processing & disconnected recordsets albeit the coverage is light. From there on, the book runs dry with samples out of context & disconnected. Enter the C++ programmer & you are certain to lose interest rapidly. MTS & MSMQ coverage is a drudgery while parts II & III as they pertain to design & architecture are an endless toil. Am I alone in thinking that VB & enterprise should never be mentioned together due to the fact that they constitute an oxymoron?

Helps in developing concepts about ADO, MTS, MSMQ and DNA in general. Lacks connectivity in examples. The source code that I downloaded from site lacks comments, which make it easy to get lost. Some of the examples don't even compile.

I picked up this book with an expectation of finding a discussion (and examples) of applications that uses ADO with MTS and MSMQ all together -- I am disappointed. It talks about MSMQ only marginally.

Builds concepts, gives solid reason of using certain techniques not covered anywhere else, but lacks effective code examples.

This book is very well organized, easy to use, and actually amusing in parts. The authors did a nice job. The best I've seen so far on the subject. I've recommended it to co workers.

The formatting of the book is lousy. There are many errors in the examples given. The book is written in parts as if you know nothing about database theory or SQL and other parts take an assumption that you are an expert and only have the book for a quick reference. There is too much cross references in the book to be a useful.

The formatting of the book is lousy. There are many errors in the examples given. The book is written in parts as if you know nothing about database theory or SQL and other parts take an assumption that you are an expert and only have the book for a quick reference. There is too much cross references in the book to be a useful.

The formatting of the book is lousy. There are many errors in the examples given. The book is written in parts as if you know nothing about database theory or SQL and other parts take an assumption that you are an expert and only have the book for a quick reference. There is too much cross references in the book to be a useful.

I find this book rather poorly structured. The authors have not decided if this is a book for developers or for administrators, and they try to make it a book for both. I think they have ended ut writing a book for nobody.

All code fragments need another look. I know that they are not intended for a compiler, but I think they should at least look that way.

As in most TUXEDO documentation the authors have a hard time getting to the point. Technical computer litterature can be a lot more pedagogic and easy to read than this!

This book is written the way books in this field should be written! Take note computer community, the authors of this book have not simply compiled an encyclopedia, but have carefully crafted a book. Early chapters provide theory and and lay the foundation for the detailed chapters that follow, covering everything from transactions to MIBS. Useful examples are povided, and it is impossible to finish this book without a conversational understanding of Tuxedo. If you need to know the difference between an RPC, FML buffer, and an RM, get the book!

Great introduction to Tuxedo. What I like the most is the completeness of the book. In other words, they define all their terms and assume no prior knowledge. I got up to speed very quickly on Tuxedo thanks to this book.

This is a SAP 101 book. Paragraphs on things that should take chapters if you are looking for any kind of detail. While there are no real good books on SAP, there are better ones than this for your money.

Having been through two SAP implementations and supported the FI/CO modules for two years I found this book on the mark. Of particular interest is the presentation of a dynamic support group that continuously evaluates it's role through the life cycle of SAP. This is not a book that one would give to your technical support group (not enought details). It is perfect for the application manager who must support the business processes of SAP.

Although this book was written for IT/IS professionals who will be tasked with post-implementation support of SAP R/3, the information in this book applies to any enterprise application. I am making this statement based on experience in launching and supporting a wireless telecommunications billing system, which is a completely different application than R/3. The point is most of the information contained in this book is solid and addresses service delivery and support for enterprise applications that work.

Some key strengths of this book include: (1) a clear view applications delivery milestones of R/3 before it is ready to be released into production. This is provided in Parts II and III and shows what production support personnel needs to be aware of while the development and implementation is in progress. I especially liked the chapters on stabilizing the application and preparing for hand-off into production. Also, the chapter on building a support domain was filled with excellent information that embodies best practices in service support. (2) Part IV, Supporting the live environment, is specific to SAP R/3, but can be used as a model for support processes for any ERP system (Baan, PeopleSoft, etc.) because the major production support issues are addressed. The best chapters in this section cover job scheduling (often overlooked, but can wreak havoc with meeting service level objectives), transaction and performance support and disaster recovery planning (another support area that is too often overlooked).

If you are tasked with supporting SAP R/3 this book is essential. Other audiences for this book include: project managers who need to plan the cutover of R/3 into the production environment, help desk management, release managers and business systems analysts who bridge the IT/IS and user domains. If you are a consultant who works with any ERP package this book will provide you with a wealth of useful information to which you can apply to whichever application(s) you support. Finally, this book will also prove useful to any support organization that is tasked with service delivery and support of enterprise applications for which a third-party book is not available. I certainly could have used this book when I was supporting a wireless billing application.

Highly recommended to the audience cited above and 5 stars for clear writing and information that is valuable beyond the scope of the book.

Doesn't really tell you anything you don't already know. Seems very outdated also.

I've been dealing with Linux clustering for a while. I found the basic and difficult concepts are well explained and useful for newbies and more experienced. The book makes you want to read more with interesting, practical sample codes. The author is very knowledgeble and hits a nail right on the head.

Although, some topics seem outdated, the underlying concepts holds through time. You're gonna enjoy tuning and adjusting it to fit your system environment. There is no abusolte solution for every system. As long as you understand what the book explains and many useful examples, you'll never get lost with lastest technologies and be equied with some solutions in mind. The rest is up to you to work on your cluster piece by piece. That's the beaty of clustering.

I love the sections of Distributed Server Process in action, external performance measurement and analysis - estimating and displaying network utilization, inter-process commincation - messaging and more. I think most information in this book could not be found anywhere, even on the web.

This is the first book I have found that actually tells you how to build up your cluster. Yes, it is technical. But it actually talks about everyman-hardware not just the high-end unobtainable. I came at this project from a power-user perspective in the *nix world. I can build up a Novell or MS network in a snap but some of the *nix topics are new to me, like shared memory across the network. When I built up my cluster I ran into a few problems. I contacted the published and within a couple of days Alex wrote back. Together we spent the next 3 weeks emailing back and forth. I would make a change, reinstall the OS, etc. Alex hung in there and helped me get everything running. That was a first for me, an author that actually cares.

This book covers the basics and fundamentals of Web services security and industry specs to an extent and quite good.

This book promotes Quadrasis EASI security kit (like a UserGuide) which made me so annoying! It does not provide practical examples from industry leading security vendors like Netegity TransactionMinder, SunONE Identity server etc.

If you are looking for implementing XML Security using Netegrity TransactionMinder, Microsoft Passport, SunONE Identity server..then this book is a WRONG CHOICE. You may find this book more appropriate if you are a Quadrasis user.

The book does a great job explaining how to build non-trivial WS systems that are secure from end to end. Instead of limiting the material to descriptions of SOAP-related technologies and their security (this is what the other books I've read on WS security do), the authors first explain how to secure quickly a simple homogenous (M$-based) WS application, then point out the problems with such a simple-minded approach, and then devote the rest of the book to the question of securing complex heterogeneous WS applications by putting all necessary pieces together.

The first part also has a good introduction into the building blocks for WS security solutions, including not only SOAP and XML security, but also security of the underlying middleware technologies. Here, they could do a better job on going into more details about WS-Security spec and its friends. In the second part, they show how to use those building blocks together. Again, chapters on security of Java-based WS and the security interoperability lack a good structure and some times are just confusing.

From reading the book, it became clear to me that WS security is yet another instance of the old problem of enterprise security integration, although with a SOAP twist. Therefore, many methods from middleware security can be used for securing WS applications. I would recommend reading this book only to those who build complex heterogeneous WS applications.

Mastering Web Services Security provides a valuable enterprise perspective on building secure Web Services applications. Rather than focusing on a single technology like .NET or Java, the book provides useful real-world guidelines for building Web Service based systems that use many different products.

Some previous reviews of this book thought that EASI was exclusively a description of the product from the authors' company. I didn't see it that way -- in fact, I didn't see any specific details describing vendor products based on EASI. I viewed EASI more as an architectural technique that can be applied to many vendor products. Different Web Services vendors of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) offer frameworks that look like EASI, which makes this book useful when evaluating those alternatives.

I will preface this review with the fact that I have about 3 years experience with Openview, mostly basic install and use. I have attended the one week HP course as well. This book provides the beginner with a great amount of knowledge not included in the manuals, but you still seem to need a good network management consultant to get into the real gravy of Openview.

This book provides a very good framework for "planning, implementing, and maintaining NNM" (quoted from the preface). The preface admits it is not a training manual, and the author himself recommends attending a training class before using this book. Therefore, the book was not really what I was looking for. It provides an excellent overview of how one would go about setting things up, but does not provide very many specific examples of how to do this. It's aim is more at the Network Manager instead of the ones actually doing the implementation. Since I have more of a development mindset, I found the lack of specific examples frustrating. There were many stories about how NNM had been set up in the author's extensive experience with the product, but not very many step by step procedures of how he did this. If you're looking for a technical manual, you might be disappointed.

Mr. Blommers book should be required reading for anyone deploying HP's Network Node Manager. While reading a book is not a substitute for real-world experience, this book CAN help anyone deploying NNM from making common (and often costly) mistakes. I have been deploying NNM since version 3.31, and I have seen most (but not quite all) of the issues that Mr. Blommers raises. However, I wish there had been a book like this one to help me avoid some of the pitfalls that I didn't anticipate. With only ONE exception, I wholeheartedly recommend taking all of Mr. Blommers' suggestions/recommendations. The sole exception is regarding using "public" as your SNMP "Read" community string. This is a grave security blunder and should be avoided at all costs. You should be CONSISTENT with your SNMP community strings, as Blommers recommends, but do NOT use "public". Otherwise, read this book cover to cover and do everything it recommends.

Note: this book best serves people who have experience with NNM AND who have read HP's (free) manuals. Blommers assumes that you have the necessary experience/training and states that in his forward. If this book leaves you behind, it is probably because you don't have the necessary prerequisites. Also, I do not know and have never met Mr. Blommers.

My credentials: I have the following HP certifications (although I do NOT and have never worked for HP):

(1) HP OpenView Certified Consultant in UNIX Server and Application Management (IT/O 5.x)

(2) HP OpenView Certified Consultant in UNIX Server and Application Management (IT/O 5.x) Level 2

(3) HP OpenView Certified Consultant in Network Management (NNM 6.x on UNIX and NT)

(4) HP OpenView Certified Consultant in Network Management (NNM 6.x on UNIX and NT) Level 2

(5) HP OpenView Certified Integration Expert in Application and System Management (track 2)

(6) HP OpenView Certified Integration Expert in Network Management

I will also add that I emailed BOTH Ron Gilster AND the dummies press asking if any erratta was posted, and as of today, 2 months later, I have received NO REPLY from either party. This is most unfortunate considering that the book is well written, catchy, and makes a very dry subject a lot more interesting. So shame on the technical editors.

Best used as a starter or final prep but needs somthing more heavyweight for the exam.

Ron Gilster and Mike Glencross have come up with an easy to read book with a little humor spread throughout with that Dummies aplomb. I found myself reading quickly through this book. This is not as meaty as some of the other Server+ books, but it does touch on all the exam objectives. My suggestion would be to use this book in conjunction with one of the other thicker books such as the Server+ Bible for more in-depth look for certain topics. The RAID and SCSI chapters were good and I also enjoyed the chapter review questions. However, the included CD with the Dummies book has many identical questions as the Server+ Bible CD and this may be due to them being published by the Hungry Minds.

I picked up this book becuase I scanned through the first chapters and found the it easy to follow. It was not until I had invested too much time to start a new book that it disappointed me. The book appears as if Mr. Wood got about halfway through the book, then had to finish in a hurry. The sample application begins to refer to objects that have not been created in the tutorial. Even when the book refers to objects that were created, the name is often different than the name used in the tutorial, making it difficult to follow. In short, I would wait for the second "Special Edition" if you really want this book. Maybe they will correct the errors.

I am very upset with the last book I bought, "Special Edition Using PowerBuilder 5" (ISBN 0-7897-0754-3) by Charles Wood. I have bought several books of QUE before and have never seen so much mistakes. I have read up to chapter 11 with lots of difficulty because of the mistakes in datawindow names, object names, etc. If you try to follow the example given in the book you will end up lost because of scripts with errors in variable and function definitions.

I really have never read a book with that many errors. I bought it because I am the owner of "Special Edition Using Windows 95", "Special Edition Using Gupta SQL Windows" and "Special Edition Using Excel for Windows 95" and thought this book would keep the good quality of the other ones I had, but after reading it I am very disappointed.

I hope in the future you should spend more time and/or money controlling the quality of your products.

Sincerely yours

Hernan Boluarte
hernanb@telematic.edu.pe

I have purchased many books from QUE in the past but I have never had one fall apart on me in a week. The quality of binding is as poor as the worked examples. The fact that object names change from page to page leaves the newer user in total confusion. The only saving grace is that the reference section at the back is useful. Much better reading PB 6 Unleashed.

Dave Nicolaou, UK Developer, Powerbuilder