ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bell Canada, Peoplesoft, Transaction Processing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Franklyn Prescod

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Chapter 5 it infrastructure and emerging technologies. Consists of set of physical devices and software required to operate enterprise. Consists also of set of firm wide services including: computing platforms providing computing services, telecommunications services, data management services, application software services, physical facilities management services, it management, standards, education, research, and development services. Period of highly centralized computing under control of professional programmers and systems operators, with most elements provided by a single vendor, the manufacturer of the hardware and the software. Minicomputers offered powerful machines at far lower prices than mainframes, making possible decentralized computing, customized to the specific needs of individual departments or business units rather than time sharing on a single huge mainframe: 2. In client/server computing, desktop or laptop computers called clients are networked to powerful server computers that provide the client computers with a variety of services and capabilities.