LEADING COMPUTER BOOK PUBLISHER ISSUES SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR TODAY'S CORPORATE
COMPUTING REVOLUTION

Client/Server Strategies: A Survival Guide For Corporate Reengineers
Describes Big Changes in Corporate Information Systems And the Companies
That Depend on Them

SAN MATEO, CA--April 11, 1994 -- Networks of PCs are bringing about a
not-so-quiet revolution in how corporations operate. To help executives
and managers navigate and control the enormous changes underway and still
to come, leading computer book publisher IDG Books Worldwide has issued
Client/Server Strategies: A Survival Guide For Corporate Reengineers, by
computer industry veteran David Vaskevitch.

Released just before year-end, Client/Server Strategies is a thoughtful,
informed map of where business information systems are going in the 1990s.
Addressing itself both to corporate PC users and to the information
systems professionals and executives who manage computer resources for
their companies, the book goes well beyond strictly technical issues. It
also addresses the large organizational issues firms face when adapting to
PC network-based information systems.

"Hundreds of thousands of networked corporate PC users rely on our
InfoWorld SECRETS Series and PC World Handbook Series to get the most from
their companies' desktop PCs," said IDG Books President and CEO John J.
Kilcullen.

"As PC networks become the system of choice for more and more large
businesses, corporate IS managers and users are expanding their
perspective from the desktop out," Mr. Kilcullen continued. "For them, our
new Client/Server Strategies is just what its title suggests: a survival
guide."

As described in Client/Server Strategies: A Survival Guide For Corporate
Reengineers, modern businesses are undergoing a revolution that is
"cultural" as well as "technical." For the first few decades of corporate
computer use, large business data systems consisted mostly of tightly
controlled mainframes (known in the computer press as "Big Iron"). But now
information systems are being put through a process called
"rightsizing"--matching hardware horsepower and systems design to the
needs of the business. And the corporate mainframes of yore, access to
which was usually restricted to "data processing professionals," are
rapidly being replaced by powerful, far-flung networks of PCs.

Putting both applications and data on a network, or "server," the new
systems give dozens, hundreds, even thousands of workers with "client"
desktop computers access to more information than ever before. Indeed,
information itself--about suppliers and commodities, customers and
markets--often makes up one of the modern corporation's most valuable
assets.

As detailed by author David Vaskevitch, today's "re-engineering" of
business systems is more than a matter of hardware and software and
networks. In moving to client/server-based information systems, most firms
find that their business procedures, and indeed the entire corporate
culture itself, must be rightsized right along with the information
systems. In short, technological change has made it not only possible but
necessary for modem corporations to change their whole way of doing
business.

Starting with the building blocks of today's corporate information systems.
personal computers, networks, software (even mainframes are still in the
picture)--Client/Server Strategies explores the many technical and
business issues of rightsizing for executives, business computing
professionals, managers and workers.

About the Author

David Vaskevitch is Director of Enterprise Computing at Microsoft
Corporation. Mr. Vaskevitch, a 20-year computer industry veteran,
developed one of the first electronic mail systems in Canada, and has been
a key figure in the client/server revolution for more than a decade, first
at networking giant 3COM Corporation and more recently at Microsoft.

About IDG Books and International Data Group

IDG Books Worldwide publishes high quality computer books that bring extra
value and skill-building instruction to the reader. The company applies
the technical, market, and editorial knowledge of IDG, the leading
publisher of technology periodicals, to provide timely and useful computer
books that meet the needs of computer users of all levels. IDG Books
Worldwide is the fastest growing computer book publisher with over 80
titles in print and foreign translations in over 20 languages. One-third
of all books published by IDG Books have become national bestsellers.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, International Data Group is the world's
largest publisher of computer-related information and the leading global
provider of information services of information technology. International
Data Group publishes over 195 computer publications in more than 62
countries, including such titles as PC World, InfoWorld, Computerworld, &
Macworld. Forty million people read one or more IDG publications each
month.

How to Order

Client/Server strategies: A Survival Guide For Corporate Reengineers, by
David Vaskevitch
Price: $29.95 USA, $39.95 Canada
ISBN: 1-56884-064-0
Pub.Date: December 1993
Specs: 450 pages, 7 3/8" x 9 1/4"

Client/Server Strategies: A Survival Guide For Corporate Reengineers, is
available wherever computer books are sold or direct from the publisher at
(800) 762-2974, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. PST. For reseller discounts and information,
contact IDG Books at (415) 312-0600. For volume discounts and special
orders, please call Tony Real, Special Sales, IDG Books, at 415-312-0644.

Subsidiary Rights

Client/Server strategies is available for second serialization, newspaper
syndication, foreign, condensation, digest, and abridgment rights. For
more information, please contact
Marc Jeffrey Mikulich, Manager, Foreign and Subsidiary Rights, IDG Books,
415-312-0605.

IDG Books Worldwide, 155 Bovet Rd, Suite 610, San Mateo, CA 94402
415-312-0650,  Fax: 415-358-1260

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