e-Enterprise : Business Models, Architecture, and Components

Author: Faisal Hoque, David Orchard
List Price: $38.00
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ISBN: 052177487X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (28 February, 2000)
Sales Rank: 16,794
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 4 out of 5
Revolutionary insight into business and technology
This book provides a clear methodology and framework for integrating technology into core business practices. It is well written and thought provoking. As an executive level technologist, I found this book to contain a great deal of insight into the planning and activities needed to bridge the gap between IT and business.

Rating: 4 out of 5
Great book for the CIO/CTO level
Looking for some support to help you catch up with the needs, demands, and technology of the mission critical app in an Internet-saavy company? This book provides a great resource to help put your company on the right track. Not too much depth on the technologies, but if you've heard the buzzwords, just weren't sure what they mean / do, you'll get a nice overview of things like DCOM/EJB/MTS/etc. A good read for a higher level exec.

Rating: 1 out of 5
Hogwarts for the enterprise
As great as the Harry Potter books are, you wouldn't base a business on the theory of Hogwarts.

This book is a silly e-HogWarts-like fantasy that leads one to believe software is a land of wishin' and hopin' and where simple minded split em up into lil' boxes mentality makes big problems easy.

Even in today's world of web services and OOD, serious software is hard work, requires risk, investment and skilled talent in many facets from business to technology. This author over simplifies to the point of e-absurdity. You just plug a hip-bone into the thigh-bone, or is it authentication + framework + function1 + function2 yields application. What garbage, if software were that easy, no more books would be needed.

Once I realised the silliness, (it takes about 10 minutes to read the whole book) I scanned the author's background: A failed e-company (ec cube) to his credit and it appears to me he is just about done with his latest debacle, something called enamics, based on yet another apparently mindless book.

Please do yourself a favor, avoid this book, this author, and, why, oh, why, did Cambridge publish this? A great conspiracy must be behind this...

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