Web and e-Business

  • VII Pillars Of Productivity

    Source: Optimize Published: May 2005 Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, holder of the Schussel Chair of Management Science at MIT, has been doing breakthrough research on how companies can achieve superior returns from their investments in information technology. This article summarizes the most recent research from his team. Some comments from the article follow:

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    • Investment Opportunities from the Home Digital Front

      Source: PC magazine Published: Mar 2000 This white paper was prepared in 2000 by George Schussel for publication in a popular newsstand PC magazine. Some quotes from the article follow:

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      • Client/Server, from dBASE to JAVA: The Next Step

        Source: George Schussel Published: Nov 1997 In this article, Schussel explains how client/server is evolving to support the emerging Internet paradigm. He discusses how the Internet is itself a 3 to N-tier client/server network. Well known Internet applications like Gopher, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), the World Wide Web and SMTP (Internet mail) are client/server in architecture. Schussel discusses first and second generation web applications.

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        • Tales from the Java shops

          Source: Application Development Trends Published: Oct 1997 The emerging popularity of Java based development is chronicled here. Distributed computing in this environment is described by George Schussel, chairman and CEO of Digital Consulting Inc. He describes the emerging architecture as "browser/server computing."

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          • Debate Focuses On NC Merits

            Source: Newsbytes News Published: Apr 1997 In the press and speakers' room before the session billed as "The Great Debate: Has The Internet Killed Client/Server?" George Schussel, whose Digital Consulting Inc. runs the Database and Client/Server World conference going on this week, was overheard telling some panelists that "The point of this debate is just to have....fun." They did that, though they didn't talk very much about the impact of the Internet on client/server.

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            • Debate on the network computer

              Source: DCIs Database and Client-Server World Conference Published: Apr 1997 It was billed as the great debate, and those looking for insight on what the future has in store for client-server witnessed, if nothing else, a little mud-slinging here between some of the industry's main players.

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              • Will that be NC or PC? Rivals duke it out in debate

                Source: Computing Canada Published: Apr 1997 TORONTO -- It was billed as the great debate, and those looking for insight on what the future has in store for client-server witnessed, if nothing else, a little mud-slinging here between some of the industry's main players. The scene was DCI's Database and Client-Server World Conference. The panelists were representatives from IBM Corp., Sybase Inc., Netscape Communications Canada, Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp.

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                • The new browser-server architecture

                  Source: Computing Canada Published: Mar 1997 A new architecture that might be called browser-server computing is emerging. It will not entirely replace the client-server model we know today, but it will probably at least influence the way most client-server systems work. There are plenty of unanswered questions about this new model, but companies should start to explore it, according to George Schussel, founder and chief executive of Digital Consulting Inc. in Andover, Mass.

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                  • Proceed Cautiously To Browser / Server

                    Source: Newsbytes News Published: Oct 1996 A new computing architecture that might be called "browser/server computing" is emerging. It will not replace the client/server model we know today, and it is still untested and may not work very well, but forward-thinking companies should be exploring it cautiously, said George Schussel, founder and chief executive of Digital Consulting Inc., during his company's Internet Expo conference in Toronto Tuesday.

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