Systems Architecture: Hardware and Software in Business Information Systems

by Stephen Burd

Book Overview

Covering a broad range of hardware and software technology, this fully integrated text provides a technical foundation for systems design, hardware and software procurement, and management of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878358765
• ISBN13: 9780878358762
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Wow there is lots of stuff in a computer.

Who knew? These computer macheines have many parts that all have to work together just right to make them work. It has all kinds of parts that don't just go left and right but do all kind of things that are kind of like magic. I am just amazed and shocked by all the fancy things inside this thing called a computer.

Great Book - System Architecture

Wish I had this book back in the 90s. Back then, we were just building our first ever ethernet LAN from the ground up and the information in this book would've been greatly helpful. But now it serves as a review of the basics.

Outstanding content for qualified professionals

I've been a fan of Dr. Burd for many years and this text reaffirms my respect for this author. This is not a book for the casual practitioner. Rather, it is a professional in-depth look at systems architectures, worthy of its adoption at many colleges and universities. I can see how some laymen are put-off by books like this that are targeted at graduate-level earning, especially those readers without the requisite knowledge to appreciate Dr. Burd's insights and observations. This is a book for the worthy scholar, not the dilettante. If you are a professional who wants a through and insightful overview of systems architectures, this is the book for you.

Good Job

I am very pleased with this purchase. It arrived promptly and is exactly what I needed. Thank you.

Decent Read

I've been a professional software engineer for over 20 years and recently took a grad course that used this book. I can honestly say I was somewhat dismayed when I read the 2 previous reviews and had to plunk down the cash to buy the book just the same. Overall, I thought the author's style was easy to read and understand and I thought the book flowed well. The content was, for me, a nice review of topics that I haven't encountered in quite a while in my day to day activities. Unlike the other reviewers, I don't have any clever one liners that I want to see in print next to my name or want to trash the whole book because of one or two shortcomings. The book is not "great" but, IMHO, it is pretty good for classroom work. The author does get a little loose with terminology and, at times, you'll encounter some ambiguous content that you have to work a little to get through. As I said previously, it was a fairly easy read which counts for a lot with me. A lot of these text books are technically accurate but are also a royal pain to try and read while staying awake. The author (apparently) has a teaching tool available to instructors only that generates test questions. Some of the questions are ambiguous but that generated classroom discussions on the how/why they were ambiguous so we learned more that way as well. For me, this book was definitely worth it but, then again, I wanted to learn -- not just write a clever and scathing review.