Open Systems

Date	Time (pm)	Programme	Slides
6 May (Thu)	7.00 - 10.00	o N-ways Introduction. o Outline of module and teaching methods. o Internet Search o Introduction to open systems. o What is proprietary systems? o Definition of open systems. o Assignment Question o Class Activity 1: Workouts o Class Activity 2: Real-world Paper Reading - "Open Systems Frequently Asked Questions"
20 May	7.00 - 10.00	o Market forces of open systems. o Network in the real world. o Why not open systems? o Characteristics of open systems. o Case study 1: McDonald's Inc. o Case study 2: DHL. o Class Activity: Reading on "NUS retires long-serving mainframes (for a client/server solution)"
03 Jun	7.00 - 10.00	o 8 Business requirements for IT & 4 IT Requirements for business - Scability, Interconnection, Interoperability, Portability o Class Activity 1: IT vs Business Requirements o Industry Standards vs Areas. o Standards for Interconnection: Definition of OSI, de jure & de facto, de facto for interconnection: SNA & TCP/IP o Class Activity 2: Nine Case Studies from The Open Group o Class Activity 3: Eight Open Systems Case Studies from Metron o Class Activity 4: The 1998 Source Book For Client/Server Core Banking Systems
17 Jun	7.00 - 9.00	o Standards for Portability: X/Open, X/Open CAE, POSIX, SPAG and COSE. o Standards for Interoperability. o Reading 1: Reinventing Enterprise Systems: Searching for new architecture (2.6mb) o Reading 2: Web Components - Knowing the Terms
1 Jun	7.00 - 9.00	o Evolution of Standards. o A closer look at de jure & de facto. o Reading 1: Internet Standards and the Future of the Internet (68kb) o Reading 2: The Open Group and Web Standards Project Collaborate to Ensure Support for Standards on the World Wide Web (30kb)
15 Jul	7.00 - 9.00	Loose topics (in syllabus/exams but not in UK notes): o Downsizing and Rightsizing. o Unix and Open Systems, synonymous? o Standards for Operating Systems. o Vertical, Horizontal and Forward Portability. o Cost, opportunities and benefits from tactical and strategic angle.
29 Jul	7.00 - 10.00	o Building for Continual Improvement o Advice for Users of Open Systems o Class Activity 1: Reading on "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Performance Engineering & Capacity Management in Open Systems" o Reflections on Past Exam Years Papers and Examination Skills
--		Examinations

	The Microsoft Windows NT Platform: Enterprise Interoperability with UNIX
	Alignment of IS Plans with Business Plans, IS Planning Problems and Usefulness of IS Plans
	RealAudio Video on "Java: The Road Ahead"
	Spotlight on Java - 1996 to 2004 Plan
	NUS retires long-serving mainframes (for a client/server solution)
	The Key to Universal Connectivity - Middleware
	"Avoid Dumbsizing", PM warns
	Intel pushing unified Unix (CNet / news.com)
	Oct98-Jan99 Open Systems Lecture Notes.
	1998 April-July Open Systems Lecture Notes.

	Data Encryption, System Integration, Datawarehouse and Middleware by Group B (26 Nov 1998)
	UNIX, Delphi/Access, NC, Organisation vs Open Systems and Portability by Group A (12 Nov 1998)
	UNIX in the context of Open System by Group A (12 Nov 1998)
	SAP / R3 by Tony Seow, Group 5 (30 June 1998)
	Eastman Chemical (Open) IS by Mong Yang, Group 2 (21 May 1998)
	EDI TradeNet by Tan Kiah Han, Group 2 (20 May 1998)
	Lotus Business Intelligence by Jeffery, Group 1 (8 May 1998)

	International Network Service - Company that operates Tradanet.		New Technologies and Barriers to their Uptake A Study of the Markets for Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), Mobile Data and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in the United Kingdom and a Survey of Systems Developers and Systems Integrators of Products and Services Based on these Technologies
	Network Standards and Protocol		Open Systems Interconnect Reference Model
	IEEE Standards Home Page		Computer Architecture and Networks - Notes, Assignments, Exams, Weblinks.
	Internet Standards and the Future of the Internet		Network Programming - Notes, Source Codes, Weblinks.
	Networking Information - Bibliographies, RFCs, Internet links.		Open Systems: Concepts and Applications (Australian National University) - Notes, Assignments, Tutorials, Weblinks.
	OSI protocols		Internetworking Basics - OSI Reference Model (good diagrams).
	Open Systems Networking Notes, Projects, Exams, Glossary, Weblinks.		OSI Data Transfer Standards - Message Handling Systems (X.400 series), Electronic Data Interchange Messaging System (X.435), The Directory (X.500), File Transfer, Access and Management (FTAM), Transaction Processing (TP).
	Multimedia Electronic Mail Standards		TCP/IP Networking Standards - Good page on TCP/IP standards.
	Internet Standards - General information about standards and protocols in a network.		Internet - Protocol Layers
	OSI Layered model and TCP/IP		International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - Mother of Standardization!
	What's So Open About Open Systems? - article.		http://www.opengroup.org/
	UnixDOS Toolkit (software)		Computer Networks - Lecture Notes.
	CNet \| Developer \| PCMag \| Dr. Dobbs \| Byte \| Ziff \| Tech News \| WebReview \| WinNetMag \| SciOnline \| PCPro \| PCW \| Algorithmica \| CSJour		Online Dictionary: whatis.com, Technology Encyclopedia, Computing Dictionary, Webster Dictionary
	The Industry Standards		A List of Courses in Parallelism, Networks, Distributed Systems
	World Lecture Hall: Computer Science		Management Information Systems: On-line Course Materials
	Data Communications Lectures		Darwin Open Systems
	Digital UNIX is Industry's First 64-Bit Operating System To Receive the X/Open Brand for Conformance with the UNIX 95 Standard		11mb Free homepage for all by Xoom
	Digital Nervous System by Microsoft (with case studies)		Open Source Code & Mozilla.org
	IETF The Internet Engineering Task Force		Introduction to Internet Protocol
	30 years of windows: A retrospective		Online FULL-text Book
	Top 10 overrated Web building products and technologies		What is a System Integrator? 1 \| 2
	Open Source Software		Search Engines Tutorial: 1 \| 2 \| 3
	OSE and OSE Profiles (contribute by Francis Goh)		The Battle for the Next Generation of Computing: Is There Demand for a Network Computer?
	All about V.90 Modem Standard		The Battle for the Next Generation of Computing: Is There Demand for a Network Computer?
	Making Sense of Middleware		Open Systems Architecture
	The Open System Approach at the SEI (CMU)		Open Systems Annotated Bibliography
	Open Systems Engineering Effectiveness Measurement		An Open Mind to Open Platform
	Evaluation of the CORBA technology in a context of Internet distributed financial applications written in Java		Rightsizing for Corporate Survival: An IS Manager's Guide
	1. UNIX Unleashed, System Administrator's Edition 2. UNIX Unleashed, Internet Edition

Counter for 1998a OS batch (14 Mar - 15 Jul 1998): 646
Counter for 1998b OS batch (29 Oct - 28 Jan 1999): 1502
Counter for 1999 OS batch (6 May - 29 Jal 1999): 2301

Created on 14 Mar 1998. Last revised on 17 Jan 2002
Maintained by Tralvex Yeap

Assignments: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998 Nov, 1999	Exams Papers: 1996, 1996b, 1997, 1998
Exams & Assignments Marking Schemes: 1997, 1997 & 1997 Spring*	Exams Review: 1996, 1997, 1998

	Reinventing Enterprise Systems: Searching for new architecture		The Business Case for Open Systems: Expectations for Open Systems in a Changing Marketplace
	The UNIX Operating System: Mature, Standardized and State-of-the-Art		Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX
	Open Systems Frequently Asked Questions		Open Systems: The Promises and the Pitfalls
	So Many to Choose From": An Introduction to Standards and the Internet		Nine Open Systems Case Studies from The Open Group
	The consequences of open systems and distributed processing		Eight Open Systems Case Studies from Metron
	How Thin Clients Lead to Fat Networks		The 1998 Source Book For Client/Server Core Banking Systems
	Cost-Benefit Analysis of Performance Engineering & Capacity Management in Open Systems