Open Systems Reference Books

	Open systems handbook by Simon, Alan R. and Wheeler, Tom (1995) page Charactereristics of Open Systems 21 Industry Standards and Areas (OS, GUI, ...) - table 66 Servers and standard software 126 OSI + 3 levels of hardware + Interop. (as logical) & connectivity (as physical) 150 TCP/IP as most popular Open Systems 159 Layered Protocols: SNA, OSI, TCP/IP 173 Interoperability 209 "Building for Continual Improvement" - Future of Open Systems 265
	Open systems and IBM : integration and convergence by Gray, Pamela A. (1993) page Proprietary Systems 27 IT Requirements for Business: Scalability, Interconnection, Interoperability, Portability 38 Case study: McDonald's Inc 39 Computer System Interfaces (good diagram) 44 "AS/400 Proprietary, yet outstandingly successful" 56 Diagram on de jure and de facto 62 IEEE POSIX Committee (table), listing 1003.0, ... 1003.18 63 OpenSys & S/w Portability | OpenSys & Interconnection | OpenSys & Interoperability P + S + I = interoperability [where P:portability, S:scalability and I:interconnection] 73 2 interpretations of POSIX: as Unix; as application to proprietary systems 77 Standards vs Company (table) 80 Networks in the real world (diagram) 160 Transparent access to resources: user view (diagram) 162 Critical international standards (table); Areas vs Standards 237
	Open systems : a business strategy for the 1990s by Gray, Pamela A. (1991) page Market forces for standard (open) systems (diagram) 10 Why not standards? 18 Text description on Portability, Scalability and Interoperability 26 De facto and de jure standards 46 Evolution of standards 57 Standards for OS: Unix and POSIX standard 74 OSF: Principles, full list (Area + Industry stds) 83/84 OSI: Overview, 2 main layers (hourglass diagram), details on 7 layers, de facto for inteconnection 97 The role of X/Open: History, mission, CAE, technical process, X/Open software partners, working groups, etc. 121 User Case history: DHL, British Airways, Sherson Lehman Hutton 149 Migration experiences: Unix to non-Unix and OSI 158 Advice for users of Open Systems: Why adopt? What? Practical? Migration? Other considerations. 164
	Open systems : the reality by T.A. Critchley and K.C. Batty (1993) page "Unix and Open Systems are not synoymous..." 16 Definition of Open Systems by NIST and IEEE 18 Open Systems - Where and Why standards: Portability requirements, Interoperability and User Interface requirements. Portability: (Diagram), Programming Languages, DB, graphics, OO (ORB), CASE. Interoperability: Security, DB interop, OLTP, Distributed OLTP, Management of hetereogeneous networks, printing. UI: One paragraph introduction. 81 Setters and Specifier: Definition of de jure and de facto 113 Standards - The implementers: OSF, Unix Int'l, POSC, SPAG and COSE 123 Downsizing and Rightsizing: Definitions, real-life examples 143 Standards for Portability: X/Open, X/Open CAE, POSIX, Long list of POSIX specs, Programming Languages, RDB, Graphics, CASE, OO. 161 UI: GUI Family tree (diagram), OSF/MOTIF, OpenLook, AlphaWindow, Unixshells 187 Interoperability: LAN interop, Unix to Proprietary, Proprietary to Proprietary 195 Standards for Interoperability 213 Examples of de facto and de jure (from printing standards) 252 Standards Summary of Matrix (table), Areas vs Standards 257 POSIX Standardization details 323
	Migration to Open Systems: Taming the Tiger by Daniel R Perley (1993) page Conceptual layers of a Computer Systems (diagram) 8 IEEE POSIX Open Systems definition and beyond: OSI & OCS 10 Text description: Compatibility, Portability, Scalability and Interoperability 12 POSIX definitions and What it is not 14 Vertical, Horizontal and Forward Portability 37 Tactical cost, Strategic cost, Tactical opportunities, Strategic opportunities, Tactical benefits and Strategic benefits 220 Case Studies: Transport Canada Unit Level Systems (ULS) and Cascade Transport 233

Book List

	author Simon, Alan R. and Wheeler, Tom title Open systems handbook Edition 2nd ed. Imprint Boston AP Professional, 1995 Descr. xi, 285 p.
	author Gray, Pamela A. title Open systems and IBM : integration and convergence Imprint London : McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1993 Descr. 272 p. Series/Vol. The IBM McGraw-Hill series.
	author Gray, Pamela A. title Open systems : a business strategy for the 1990s Imprint London : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1991 Descr. 263 p.
	author T.A. Critchley and K.C. Batty. title Open systems : the reality Imprint Singapore : Prentice Hall, 1993 Descr. 390 p. Series/Vol. BCS Practitioner series.
	title Open systems standardization : a business approach Imprint Upper Saddle River, N.J.090 : Prentice Hall PTR, 1997. Descr. xvii, 328 p.
	author Daniel R Perley title Migration to Open Systems: Taming the Tiger
	author Rose, Marshall T. title The open book : a practical perspective on OSI Imprint Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 1990 Descr. 651 p.
	title Open networking with OSI Imprint Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1992 Descr. 710 p.
	title Open software foundation: an idea whose time has come Imprint Cambridge, Mass.: OSF, 1989 Descr. 14 p.
	title Open Software Foundation and Unix International : implementing the open system agenda' Imprint Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Group, 1989 Descr. 85 p.
	author Open Software Foundation title Open software foundation, inc. master software license agreement supplement osf/1 operating system component : draft Imprint Cambridge : Open Software Foundation, 1990 Descr. 14 p.
	title Open systems handbook : advising on standards for open systems interconnection architecture, protocols, and applications Imprint Vienna, Va. : Omnicom, Inc., 1988 Descr. 1 v.
	title Open systems interconnection Imprint New York : Prentice Hall, 1992 Descr. 483 p.
	author McClain, Gary R. title Open systems interconnection handbook Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1991 Descr. 393 p.
	title Open systems interconnection : its architecture and protocols Imprint Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1990 Descr. 599 p.
	title Open systems interconnection : its architecture and protocols Edition Revised ed. Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993 Descr. 586 p.
	title Open systems interconnection : upper layer standards and practices Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993 Descr. 428 p. Series/Vol. McGraw-Hill series on computer communications.
	title Open systems networking : TCP/IP and OSI / David M. Piscitello, A. Lyman Chapin. Imprint Singapore : Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1993 Descr. 600 p.

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