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IT Organization: Building A Worldclass Infrastructure (Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute Series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.05
EAN: 9780130222985
ISBN: 0130222984
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 188
Publication Date: February 25, 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
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Rating: - A smattering of ideas but not a battleplan
The most interesting statistic in the book was the fact that of 40 major corporations studied, not a single one could do client/server infrastructure successfully. Oh, well. I did feel that this book was a bit too much of an advertisement for the author's other services, and it took some discipline to read it.
Nevertheless, there are some good ideas worth taking note of--I would suggest using a yellow marker and Post-it notes to come back to later. Much of the advise is well-known ... Read More
Rating: - Intro to the series
This book is basically the introduction to "Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute". This book is mediocre, but the rest of the series is very good.
If you really want to build a world class infrastructure look to _IT Systems Management_ by Rich Schiesser. It's also in this series and is everything this book is not.
_IT Systems Management_ does not really cover desktop support/helpdesk issues, its one minor shortcoming. For that look to _IT Problem Management_ by Gary Walker, ... Read More
Rating:  - Really, really bad
This book is awful. There were at LEAST 15 comments like: "for more information on this topic, please read our book ....." The fact is, I was reading THIS book, and the information was not there. The length of the book, apart from the appendix, is only 120 pages, and there are so many graphs and charts in here, that there isn't any real meat to this book.
Maybe the authors knew what they were doing by telling us to go read their other books.
Rating: - Disappointing. Don't expect insights nor explanations...
ABOUT ITS CONTENTS: I bought the book because of its table of contents. Reading the book was very disappointing. After nine chapters, whose structure I'm still trying to figure out, I have read lots of tables containing the same information stated from different points of view, some organizational models that the author criticizes without telling you how he came to discover that the model doesn't works. During the lecture you'll find lots of recommendations for reading other books the author wrote himself ... Read More
Rating: - Disappointing. Don't expect insights nor explanations...
ABOUT ITS CONTENTS: I bought the book because of its table of contents. Reading the book the first time was very disappointing. After nine chapters I had read several tables containing the same information stated from different points of view, some organizational models that the author criticized without clear explanations. I found lots of recommendations for reading other books the author wrote himself. Sometimes I felt I was reading an editorial catalog. Because of the references I decided to buy some of ... Read More
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