Product Description: This is the most successful operating systems book on the market, with lifetime sales of well over 200,000 copies. In the fourth edition, this book enhances its reputation for clear coverage of the fundamental concepts which are the foundation of operating systems...read more

Product Description: Transaction processing is an established technique for the concurrent and fault-tolerant access of persistent data. While this technique has been successful in standard database systems, factors such as time-critical applications, emerging technologies, and a re-examination of existing systems suggest that the performance, functionality and applicability of transactions may be substantially enhanced if temporal considerations are taken into account...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presenting the fundamental principles and concepts of database systems, this text includes new material on object-oriented and distributed systems and SQL. This edition also includes coverage of topics such as spatial and geographic databases, information retrieval systems, and distributed information systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Applied Operating Systems Concepts, 1/e Windows XP Update Edition is based on the best selling text Operating System Concepts, 6/e, 2001 by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne. Like OSC, Applied provides a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems. One of the key differences is that Java is used to present many of these ideas and included are numerous examples that pertain specifically to popular operating systems such as UNIX, Solaris 2, Windows NT, Mach, the Apple Macintosh OS, IBM's OS/2 and Linux. The 1/e Update Edition offers improved conceptual coverage, added content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations and a new chapter on the newest Operating System to capture the attention of critics, consumers, and industry alike: Windows XP.The advent of Java technology has given the authors an excellent vehicle to illustrate many of the most important concepts in modern operating systems today. Topics like multitasking, CPU scheduling, process synchronization, deadlock, security, and distributed systems lend themselves very well to demonstrations using Java technology.

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Product Description: * New edition of the bestseller provides readers with a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems* Uses Java to illustrate many ideas and includes numerous examples that pertain specifically to popular operating systems such as UNIX, Solaris 2, Windows NT and XP, Mach, the Apple Macintosh OS, IBM's OS/2 and Linux* Style is even more hands-on than the previous edition, with extensive programming examples written in Java and C* New coverage includes recent advances in Windows 2000/XP, Linux, Solaris 9, and Mac OS X* Detailed case studies of Windows XP and Linux give readers full coverage of two very popular operating systems* Also available from the same authors, the highly successful Operating System Concepts, Sixth Edition (0-471-25060-0...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Keep pace with the fast-developing world of operating systems Open-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing. With substantial revisions and organizational changes, Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne's Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition remains as current and relevant as ever, helping you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems while preparing yourself for today's emerging developments...read more

Product Description: The award-winning team of Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, and Greg Gagne gets system administrators right up to speed on all the key concepts of computer operating systems. This new edition gives them a thorough theoretical foundation that they can apply to a wide variety of systems as they progress to the next level of their computer work...read more

Product Description: Database System Concepts by Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan is now in its 6th edition and is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible...read more

Product Description: Database System Concepts by Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan is now in its 6th edition and is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible...read more

Product Description: Straightforward coverage of the core concepts of operating systemsOpen-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing...read more

Product Description: The ninth edition of Operating System Concepts continues to evolve to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems.  This edition has been updated with more extensive coverage of the most current topics and applications, improved conceptual coverage and additional content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations...read more