[THIN] Re: OT: new book concept, looking for feedback

To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:12:42 +0100
IMHO

What other books are available on the subject? Who buys them?

Does this have a potential for a college text book? If it does then a bit of 
careful targeting and research with college lecturers could just give you a 
reasonable market.

I'd not really be interested in such a thing unless it looked specifically at 
Microsoft solutions. Now that would include WANs and LANs, but not UNIX and 
mainframes.

I would like to see some real life dirty case studies - Unfortunately, this 
information can be quite hard to get as it could be commercially sensitive or 
embarrassing, like the one about the poorly tested terminal server platform for 
5000 users, the 2 year E-commerce project that got scrapped, the 120 server web 
farm that had no patching or monitoring in place, the ad for a cleaner that 
bought the email system down, the company that tried rolling out 300 desktops 
using a ZIP file... But then that's a bit off the subject.

I would like to have some good case studies for Disaster Recovery solutions - 
how well they work in practice and what the cost-benefits are.

How do you cost high-availability? What is the real cost of keeping that 
service up continuously for 90 days vs. a weekly maintenance slot?

I'm probably diverging, but as you've put it, I recon the subject is too vague 
to be of use to anyone other than a 2nd year college student. The great thing 
about your Citrix/TS books are that there are not many to choose from, so 
unless you get a really bad reputation, you should be able to corner about 25% 
of the online market. Given that people like me tend to buy about 1 book a year 
on their specialist subject(s), you might make a better living by targeting 
other periferal areas to Terminal servers, like MS clustering & load balancing, 
disaster recovery and backup strategies, overall systems architecture for MS 
environments - case studies from different businesses, etc.

High availability to me is not a niche. Microsoft high availability is. I'd 
stick with the niche unless you're sure you can be a volume player.

(methinks "oh dear - I have had a long hard day" - this is intended as 
constructive criticism, not a rant...)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Oglesby [mailto:roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 February 2004 16:44
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: new book concept, looking for feedback


Just looking to get some feed back on a new concept for a book.

The idea is to write a book about building high availability systems.
From the network level (WAN,LAN) up through the servers, their hardware,
NAS/SAN, client access etc. Should include, webs servers, Database
servers, file and print, load balancing and cluster technologies, and of
course methods to recover from different types of failures on different
systems.

Is this something that people would want? A look at how to make X, Y,
and Z on their network high availability. Taking a holistic approach as
it were, not just looking at any one specific technology but instead
creating a roadmap for the entire environment, defining what recovery,
fault tolerance and high availability really are, then discussing how to
design and implement for the business requirement?

Any other thoughts as to what someone would like to see in a book like
this or if it would even get bought?

Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
Microsoft MVP, Windows Server 
 
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 

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