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Title: The Object Technology Revolution by Michael K. Guttman, Jason R. Matthews ISBN: 0-471-60679-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, a business justification for object technology!
Comment: The authors of this little book (168 pages) are running an object technology consulting firm that is quite well-known in the object community. When their clients kept asking them, "how is object technology changing the way I do business, and why should I care?" they found there was no resource to explain the huge qualitative changes objects were making in business computing. Thus was this book born out of need. "Now," they write, "we have something to give to the many people who ask...why objects should be important to them, and from a business perspective thank you very much."

The style is absolutely delightful. It delivers a solid vision of the present and future of business computing in compelling and eloquent expression. It is one of the easiest reads I have ever found about technology issues. Every page has a quick aphorism or turn of phrase that can delight you in an instant. It is just a fun book to read, which would be a rare recommendation even if it did not deliver the goods in its content.

Initially, this book covers our computing past and present: the monolithic mainframe which gave way to the monolithic PC! The mindset that brought us "the IT organization" with all its political and economic power yielded to lots of little PC monoliths which shared the fatal flaw of their mega-tonnage predecessor: each application still tends to be treated as a world of its own, running in its own, private, virtual machine space. Little or no sharing of information or function. Small changes rippling through the far corners of our computing space.

From this family portrait of aberrant, almost criminal, behavior the authors introduce a fresh breeze: objects. In two chapters they provide an incredibly entertaining, but wholly accurate, description of what objects are, how they interact and how they allow (and are forcing) business computing to change in a way no previous technology could. They motivate and color in the details of objects with a creative discussion of an object-oriented taxi in a large city. At no point does the analogy get "cute", and at every point it conveys the intended concept.

And from objects they move to distributed objects, objects tying your enterprise together, tied together by standards such as OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). Did you ever wonder why distributed objects are a good thing, or what it would mean for your business to actually have objects distributed hither and yon? The final chapter, Objects in Your Future, is their personal and professional view of the future of business computing, and it is a distributed future. Some of it is here now, and the business computing environment of the "net" has changed everything in the past 4 years. But more is coming, and will be upon us probably faster than any of us think it will.

The bottom line is clear: "The days when computing issues could be viewed as strictly operational and tactical are over. Instead we now need to face the fact that business computing has become increasingly strategic-the very lifeblood of business decision-making." If you find yourself buckling under the object and component buzzwords filling the trade magazines, and all you want is some help understanding what all of this can mean for you and your business-start here. Just do it.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: Very good book.. Its 1997 now and its still up to date because its not based around version numers and such.. Just concepts.. The first book anyone should read when starting to learn abot Object Technology/Orientation.