(Pearson Education) A guide for Information Technology professionals to rising above the conflicts of new business objectives, vendor wars and new technologies to think clearly about the real challenges IT faces. Includes coverage of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems and the best practices in IT architecture. Softcover. Computer architecture.
At the time (turn of the century), IT executives were struggling with the need for large systems that contained reasubale components, such as sign-on, identity management, shopping carts, and check-out.
In the iPhone universe, this became a "solved Problem" as one used Apple's toolkit -- ditto for Goggle and others.
The book was a middling effort to describe a probem that would be solved.