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Title: Surprisingly boring to read
Review: I tried to read this book. I have it on my book shelf and I can see it right now, but I really couldn't get past the introduction. For a supposedly technical book, the first chapter reads like a 1995 introduction to the 'information superhighway' and about how wonderful it will be. This sentence on page 9:"Another example is automated trading Web sites, or "eMarketplaces" as they are called."Then followed by the word "global eCommerce Web". It just reads like a bad commercial from IBM or BEA telling you how to 'accelerate your eCommerce to web speed'.In theory the book should be good, but this kind of treatment really offends my technical sensibilities.
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