Amazingly, in a time in which book fairs are overflowing with a multitude of new publications, there are important topics which are not yet addressed in literature. Software product management used to be one of these, software pricing still is. When we first dealt with these subjects in IBM in the 1980s, it was like occult science ith a few...
Install and Configure Grid Control to Manage Your Oracle Landscape
Build a robust grid computing infrastructure with guidance from an Oracle expert who developed and taught the Grid Control Deep Dive class to Oracle Consulting. Featuring real-world examples and best practices, Oracle...
"Elaine Biech keeps her promises. Just open Marketing Your Consulting Services to the preface, and you see that she promises practical. Then she immediately delivers— on the very same page! Flip to any page, and the same is true. That's a stunning achievement. And Elaine's advice works. I tried one of her first fourteen...
The evidence is in--to solve Windows crime, you need Windows tools
An arcane pursuit a decade ago, forensic science today is a household term. And while the computer forensic analyst may not lead as exciting a life as TV's CSIs do, he or she relies just as heavily on scientific principles and just as surely solves crime.
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s server virtualization technology built-in to Windows Server 2008. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is a System Center add-on that helps organizations better manage their virtual guest images, delegate administration and management, and even extract virtual images from existing physical and virtual servers. This...
This--this being the attitude encapsulated in Andrew "bunnie" Huang's Hacking the Xbox--is why a lot of people got into the computer industry in the first place. These people liked taking things apart and figuring out how they worked, then making them serve purposes they weren't originally designed for and sharing the new discoveries with...
Open source telephony systems are making big waves in the communications industry. Moving your organization from a lab environment to production system can seem like a daunting and inherently risky proposition. Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs delivers proven techniques for deploying reliable and robust communications...
If the projects you manage don't go as smoothly as you'd like, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know offers knowledge that's priceless, gained through years of trial and error. This illuminating book contains 97 short and extremely practical tips -- whether you're dealing with software or non-IT projects -- from some of...
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This is a book about getting the most out of Oracle8i on UNIX systems. While many people understand how to administrate Oracle and UNIX, far fewer understand the issues and workings of the software and hardware, thus limiting the scalability of the system. This book aims to open up this essential information, enabling the reader to build faster,...
Handle every day-to-day calculation instantly and accurately. Now, a single authoritative reference offers you a surefire way to save time handling routine and non-routine calculations in the design, construction, rehab and maintenance of all types of structures. Edited by Tyler G. Hicks, Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations explains and...