Title: Pretty much a total waste of money
Product review: This tome reads like it was rushed to market to cash in on the (hoped for) popularity of Sybase tools for internet and distributed programming. It has some very basic, very high-level, very general information on internet technology (COM, CORBA, IIOP, etc.). This information is not specific to the Sybase toolset and could be found anywhere. Only about 1/10th of the book has anything to do with building distributed applications with Powerbuilder (or PowerJ) and that material suffers from a crippling lack of real-world examples. If I could give this effort "no stars" I would. My advice is to skip and save your money for the Barlotta book.I also find it interesting that several negative reviews of this book have been dropped during the last month. Be not deceived. Dropping one set of bad reviews will only result in more bad reviews being posted, because this is a bad book.
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