Foreword
Software organizations are looking at a very different world from that of a few short years ago. The whole planet is wired, with shopping and banking done from living rooms as well as from brokerage houses. In the enterprise arena, mainframe applications continue to give way to client/server and multi-tier systems. Desktop PCs are commonplace and practically disposable. Network PCs, the new appliances, will soon be ubiquitous. Soon even our current household appliances will reside on a network.
Fortunately, software developers have many new software tools and technologies on which to thrive in these changing environments. There are new programming languages and modernized versions of old ones. C++ is (finally!) an international standard, ...
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