The emergence of net-centric computing

• Experience the net-centric computing revolution- from the inside!
  
• Covers every variety of network computing device
  
• Clients, servers, and back-end infrastructure
  
• Networked multimedia: the future of the Internet

The traditional PC is history: Net-centric computing is the future. But
what form will it take?
Computing appliances, "connected PCs," Web-enabled set-top boxes, Webphones,
Internetconnected wireless communicators, or Java--based network computers'
All of them - or
something else entirely? What challenges face professionals who want to
build, plan for, or invest in
these new systems' Now, award-winning editor Bernard Cole - who covers
net-centric computing for
Electronic Engineering Times provides an up-to-the-minute birds-eye view of
the entire field. He
presents every leading approach and reviews all these crucial technology
issues:

• Making the Internet scale to support net-centric computing
  
• Pros, cons, and alternatives to Java in networked computing devices
  
• The role of distributed objects, including CORBA and COM
  
• Net-centric operating systems: OS-9000, DAVID, pSOS+, VxWorks, VRTX,
  PowerTV, Java OS, and
  Windows CE 2.0
  
• RISC and CISC processors: x86, ARM, picoJava, Shaboom, and other
  alternatives
  
• Supercharging //0: RSVP, parallelism, 120, and other key strategies

Cole offers new insight into the make-or-break challenges facing the
net-centric computing
industry, including security, testing, maintenance, and reliability. He
reviews the massive
infrastructure and technology enhancements needed to support real-time
networked multimedia,
including MPEG4, RTSP, VRML, Java3D, MMX and its competitors, and 64-bit
processors. Finally, he
previews tomorrow's new Web-centric user interfaces, intended to keep users
from getting "lost
in the Web." With extraordinary breadth and depth, Cole has done what
others thought impossible:
He has made sense of the net-centric computing future.