The Object Technology Revolution

By Michael K. Guttman

Everything you need to make the most of the greatest business revolution since the advent of the computer . . . The Object Technology Revolution answers all your basic questions about object technology and explains how and why this new approach to computing is so well-suited to the decentralized, lean-and-hungry business environment of the 1990s. You will learn: What objects are, where they come from, and how they are used Why objects behave the way they do and how they communicate The subtleties of object relationships and object management Why object standards are crucial to the growth of the technology How business computing--and business in general--will be affected by the object technology revolution Whether you're an IT manager, a systems developer, or a business owner looking toward the future, The Object Technology Revolution will put you in the vanguard of the coming change and prepare you to seize the opportunities that this peaceful revolution will create. From its beginning in 1987, Genesis Development Corporation has focused its efforts on promoting a business-oriented understanding and adoption of object technology. With a client list right out of the Fortune 500, Genesis is widely recognized as a leader in assisting large and medium-sized companies adopt and use this compelling technology. For more information, contact Genesis through the Internet at info&atsign;gendev.com.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471606790
• ISBN13: 9780471606796
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: *A Wiley-QED Publication
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.6" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Finally, a business justification for object technology!

The authors of this little book (168 pages) are running an object technology consulting firm that is quite well-known in the object community. When their clients kept asking them, "how is object technology changing the way I do business, and why should I care?" they found there was no resource to explain the huge qualitative changes objects were making in business computing. Thus was this book born out of need. "Now," they write, "we have something to give to the many people who ask...why objects should be important to them, and from a business perspective thank you very much."The style is absolutely delightful. It delivers a solid vision of the present and future of business computing in compelling and eloquent expression. It is one of the easiest reads I have ever found about technology issues. Every page has a quick aphorism or turn of phrase that can delight you in an instant. It is just a fun book to read, which would be a rare recommendation even if it did not deliver the goods in its content.Initially, this book covers our computing past and present: the monolithic mainframe which gave way to the monolithic PC! The mindset that brought us "the IT organization" with all its political and economic power yielded to lots of little PC monoliths which shared the fatal flaw of their mega-tonnage predecessor: each application still tends to be treated as a world of its own, running in its own, private, virtual machine space. Little or no sharing of information or function. Small changes rippling through the far corners of our computing space. From this family portrait of aberrant, almost criminal, behavior the authors introduce a fresh breeze: objects. In two chapters they provide an incredibly entertaining, but wholly accurate, description of what objects are, how they interact and how they allow (and are forcing) business computing to change in a way no previous technology could. They motivate and color in the details of objects with a creative discussion of an object-oriented taxi in a large city. At no point does the analogy get "cute", and at every point it conveys the intended concept.And from objects they move to distributed objects, objects tying your enterprise together, tied together by standards such as OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). Did you ever wonder why distributed objects are a good thing, or what it would mean for your business to actually have objects distributed hither and yon? The final chapter, Objects in Your Future, is their personal and professional view of the future of business computing, and it is a distributed future. Some of it is here now, and the business computing environment of the "net" has changed everything in the past 4 years. But more is coming, and will be upon us probably faster than any of us think it will.The bottom line is clear: "The days when computing issues could be viewed as strictly operational and tactical are over. Instead we no

Great Book

Very good book.. Its 1997 now and its still up to date because its not based around version numers and such.. Just concepts.. The first book anyone should read when starting to learn abot Object Technology/Orientation.