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"Looking into Intranets & the Internet", Anita Rosen, 1997,
0-8144-7948-0, U$27.95
%A   Anita Rosen acrosen@best.com
%C   300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario   L1N 9B6
%D   1997
%G   0-8144-7948-0
%I   McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Osborne
%O   U$27.95 +1-800-565-5758 fax: 905-430-5020 louisea@McGrawHill.ca
%P   199
%T   "Looking into Intranets & the Internet"

Yet another "business on the Internet" book that recycles business
advice and doesn't understand the Internet.

Since the subtitle makes it clear that this book is for managers, I
will accept that a certain level of technical detail is being
abandoned.  That being the case, I am at a loss to explain the
presence of a table comparing ISO, TCP/IP, DECnet, and other network
stack layers.  There are also lists of cabling media and speeds, as
well as some really bizarre "explanations" of how Internet
technologies work.  What we don't find are clear overviews of TCP/IP
protocols and technologies, or any compelling case for their use. 
Internet applications are pushed because they exist (true), they are
cheap (not, perhaps, the best reason in the world), and they are
"user-friendly" (a highly questionable assertion).

After three chapters outlining the foregoing, we get down to business.
The reader is told to create a business case, design the net, develop
the application, market the application, and manage the application. 
In true business literature fashion, the "how" of all of this is left
as an exercise to the reader.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKLIIATI.RVW   970803