Business Case for Java [Paperback]

Keith Rutledge (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: As/Four Hundred Pr (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966337530
• ISBN-13: 978-0966337532
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,545,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Keith Rutledge was born in rural northwest Georgia near the end of reconstruction. He spent 22 years in the military and a parallel lifetime in business. His first two books sold only a few copies but earned him an overseas assignment in Vienna Austria managing IBM's AS/400 business in Central Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Keith also lived in China. He served in Africa, Korea, and several other places in the military. Keith is blessed to be married to Brenda. He has four children and has spent a lifetime working with young people.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars nice, but not a business book, December 20, 1999

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balder verberne (Holland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Business Case for Java (Paperback)

the book is easy to read, and describes a number of Java implementations. It focusses on the technical part, however. This makes the information dated quickly as Java is developing. I was looking for a book to support strategic CIO decisionmaking regarding the use of Java in large corporations. I am sorry to say that this is not it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a business case!, October 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Business Case for Java (Paperback)

The title is misleading as the book fails to present a business case for the use of JAVA. Unless you work for IBM, you will find the numerous references to the AS/400e as annoying as the missing reference to the fact that SUN, not IBM, is the driving force behind JAVA. The book is repetitive and for a topic that begs the use of graphical illustrations it falls short with only two on pages 135 and 153. The author is clearly knowledgeable about information technology but seems to try too hard to make the book funny and oversimplifies many of the analogues examples. On occasion offensive, irrelevant, and condescending examples are used - ex. p. 26 on "trophy spouses"; p. 109-111 "American Revolution"; and p. 121 "I fired the bookkeeper."

5.0 out of 5 stars Technology stated in refreshingly simple terminology, November 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Business Case for Java (Paperback)

The author does an excellent job of taking even the neophyte to Java technology through an easy to understand description of the technology and why it will revolutionize business, home and personal computing.

The author's sense of humor adds a great deal to the readability of an otherwise dry topic.

This is the first technology book which I've sat down and read cover to cover and didn't want to put it down...and I've read a lot of books on technology since my degree is in computer engineering.

I appreciate the demystification of technology because that is when technology becomes most useful to society and widely used.

One word sums it up. Excellent.