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TITLE
| | Managing Internet Information Services
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 1-56592-062-7
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Adrian Nye, Bryan Buus, Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones
| | PUBLISHER
| | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 1994
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 2 to 4 [about levels]
| | This book is no longer in print
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| SYNOPSIS |
Managing Internet Information Services describes how to create services for the millions of Internet users. By setting up Internet servers for World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, Finger, Telnet, WAIS (Wide Area Information Services), or email services, anyone with a suitable computer and Internet connection can become an "Internet Publisher."
Services on the Internet allow almost instant distribution and frequent updates of any kind of information. You can provide services to employees of your own company (solving the information distribution problems of spread-out companies), or you can serve the world. Perhaps you'd like to create an Internet service equivalent to the telephone company's directory assistance. Or maybe you're the Species Survival Commission, and you'd like your plans online; this book describes a prototype service the authors created to make SSC's endangered species Action Plans viewable worldwide. Whatever you have in mind can be done. This book tells you how.
Creating a service can be a big job, involving more than one person. This book separates the setup and maintenance of server software from the data management, so that a team can divide responsibilities. Sections and chapters on data management, a role we call the Data Librarian, are marked with a special icon.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Adrian Nye | Adrian Nye is a developmental editor at O'Reilly & Associates. He is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates.
Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. | | Bryan Buus | Bryan Buus quietly kickstarted O'Reilly & Associates' online presence in 1992 by creating ORA's Gopher server. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Boston University in 1992. He graduated the following year from Boston University with his master's degree in computer science, specializing in Internet information services. He then packed up all his stuff and ventured to Boulder, Colorado.
Bryan currently works at XOR Network Engineering as a System Administrator and Information Services Specialist, developing their Internet Plaza. His interests include Net surfing (for fun and profit, skiing (all types), zymurgy, and a little trapeze (thanks Cricket and Paige!). | | Cricket Liu | Cricket Liu matriculated at the University of California's Berkeley campus, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza. He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked for HP for nine years.
Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by cracking a sprinkler main and flooding Labs' computer room). Cricket was hostmaster@hp.com for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to cofound HP's Internet Consulting Program.
Cricket left HP in 1997 to form Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his friend (and now co-author) Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000, and later the same day merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services.
Cricket joined Men & Mice, an Icelandic company specializing in DNS software and services, in September, 2001. He is currently their Vice President, Research & Development.
Cricket, his wife, Paige, and their son, Walt, live in Colorado with two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota. On warm weekend afternoons, you'll probably find them on the flying trapeze or wakeboarding behind Betty Blue. | | Jerry Peek | Jerry Peek is a freelance writer and instructor. He has used shells extensively and has taught users about them for over 20 years. Peek is the "Power Tools" columnist for Linux Magazine and coauthored the book UNIX Power Tools. | | Russ Jones | Russ Jones is the Internet program manager for Digital Equipment Corporation. He manages Digital's Web server when not advocating and coordinating Internet use across the company. Before joining Digital, Russ managed a software development group at McDonnell Aircraft Company. It was there that Russ developed his first hypertext system in 1983. Of course, he didn't realize it until he started working on Managing Internet Information Systems. Russ is a graduate of Purdue University's computer science program. When not wandering cyberspace, Russ enjoys current events, architecture, cooking, and history. He and his wife Linda live in Palo Alto, California. Although close enough to his office that he could ride his bicycle, Russ prefers the bus. |
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