Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Networking, Fourth Edition

Chapter 11. Working with Applications on the Network

In this chapter

• Deploying user applications on the network

• Understanding groupware products

• Using GroupWise

• Working with Lotus Notes

• Understanding Exchange Server

• Working with shared databases

• Understanding Microsoft’s .NET Initiative

So far we have concentrated on how networks actually function: We’ve discussed network protocols, the OSI model, peer/client operating systems, and network operating systems. Our next area of focus is the application. Application software provides us with the various productivity tools we use to actually get work done. Users on a network can take advantage of all sorts of applications; although we usually think of word processing and spreadsheet software as typical applications, ...