Open Systems Handbook

A Guide to Building Open Systems

Digital

Publisher: Digital Press, 1991, 204 pages

Keywords: Programming, Information Systems

Last modified: April 6, 2021, 3:52 p.m.

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  1. Open Systems Explored
    1. Introduction
    2. Open Systems: Concept and Reality
      • The Evolution of Open Systems
      • Definition of an Open System
      • Perceptions of "Open"
        • Standard Platforms
        • Networking
        • Availability and Accessibility
      • Relating Definitions of Open Systems
      • Open Systems Potential
      • Standards for Open Systems
    3. The Open Systems Environment
      • Organizing the Discussion
      • Elements and Components of MUSIC
      • Other Services
      • Aligning Products and Standards with the MUSIC Model
    4. Application Environment Profiles
      • Profile Development Within Standards Organizations
    5. Applying Open Systems Information to Your Business
      • Steps to Implement an Open Systems Environment
        • Step 1: Know your business objectives
        • Identify application requirements
        • Prepare a profile that identifies the suite of capabilities needed to support your application
        • Step 4: Acquire or engineer software that matches your profile
        • Step 5: Verify the open systems characteristics of the application
        • Step 6: Verify that business objectives are met
        • Step 7: Repeat the sequence
        • Human Factors
      • Using Standards in Describing Applications
        • Profile Development
        • Levels of Conformance
        • Managing Software Development
        • Conformance Testing of Applications
      • Using Standards in Buying Systems
  2. Elements of an Open System
    1. The Management Element
      • The Management Element
      • Description of Current Standards Work
      • History and Current Status
        • ISO/IEC Management Standards Activities
        • TCP/IP Management Activities
        • IEEE POSIX 1003.7 System Administration
        • Open Software Foundation's Distributed Management Environment
    2. The User Interface Element
      • POSIX 1003.2: The Shell and Utilities Working Group
        • Description of POSIX 1003.2 standards
      • Form Interface Management System (FIMS)
        • Description
        • History and Status
      • X Window System
        • Description
        • History and Status
      • Graphical User Interfaces
        • OSF/Motif
        • Open Look
    3. The System Services Element
      • Languages
      • Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
        • Description
        • History and Current Status
        • POSIX-related International Work
      • Graphics
        • GKS
          • History and Current Status
        • GKS-3D
        • PHIGS
          • Description
          • History and Current Status
        • PEX
    4. The Information and Data Services Element
      • Data Definition and Access
        • Database Language Standards
          • The SQL Standard
          • Network Database Language
        • Remote Database Access
          • Description
          • History and Status
        • Data Repository and Management Systems
          • IRDS Description
          • History and Status
        • Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM)
      • Document Data Interchange and Processing
        • The Office Document Architecture (ODA) and Office Document Interchange Format (ODIF)
          • Description
          • History and Status
          • Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Standard Document Interchange Format (SDIF)
          • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
          • Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)
          • Electronic Design Interchange Format (EDIF)
        • PDES/STEP
          • Description
          • History and Status
    5. The Communications Services Element
      • The Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
        • Description
        • History and Status
      • Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
        • OSI Base Standard Description
        • History and Current Status
          • Functional Standards: International Standardized Profiles
          • OSI-related Profile Work
          • Testing
      • Selected Established or Emerging Communication Standards
        • ISO/CCITT X.400, Mail and Message Interchange
        • ISO/CCITT X.500, Directory Services
        • File Transfer Access and Management (FTAM)
        • Remote Procedure Calls
        • ISO/CCITT X.25 (WAN standard)
        • Local Area Network (LAN) Standards
          • IEEE 802.3 Standard for Ethernet Technology
          • Token Ring — IEEE 802.5
          • Fiber Distributed Data Interface
    6. Other Concerns
      • Security
        • Communications Security
        • Operating System Security
      • Internationalization
      • Software Development Environment
        • PCTE
        • A Tools Integrated Standard (ATIS)
        • CASE Integration Services
  • Appendix A: Overview Guide to Standards Developing Organizations and Consorta
  • Appendix B: Standards Development Organizations
  • Appendix C: Open Systems Environments
  • Appendix D: Bibliography
  • Appendix E: Glossary of Open Systems Environment/Standards-related terms

Reviews

Open Systems Handbook

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Very Good ******** (8 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 3:16 a.m.

Don't have an ISBN, but is still the best book on Standards I've ever read.

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