Ok so if the book was MS focused looking at the network then building up to MS Exchange, SQL, AD, TS, File and Print and web lets say that would be a good target from your perspective: BTW I pretty much intended it to be MS focused but an glad for the feed back. Ron Oglesby Senior Technical Architect Microsoft MVP, Windows Server RapidApp Office 312.372.7188 Mobile 815.325.7618 email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:13 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: new book concept, looking for feedback 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 ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. 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