It is hard to explain to management and sales staff what is different about n-tier applications using .NET and the monolythic unix-applications they are used to. So i'm looking for some books that explains the concepts without VB or C# code to help me explaining it to them, or that i can suggest them to read.

Any suggestions?

Couldn't you collect a set of links from wikipedia? A lot of these terms are explained in wikipedia without code. Books on IT level for managers are often very thick and at the same time without any clue.

So, what actually are you looking to do.

1. Convince internal management the advantages of moving your development to these environments/methologies.

2. Your ap does use these items and you want them to be able to talk intelegently about the advantages with your customers?

BOb

Otis wrote:

Couldn't you collect a set of links from wikipedia? A lot of these terms are explained in wikipedia without code. Books on IT level for managers are often very thick and at the same time without any clue.

The articles on wikipedia are full of jargon. You need a lot of prior knowledge to understand them. Still there is a chance I find something usefull by following the links.

pilotboba wrote:

So, what actually are you looking to do.

1. Convince internal management the advantages of moving your development to these environments/methologies.

2. Your ap does use these items and you want them to be able to talk intelegently about the advantages with your customers?

The second is the most close.

But is not only about the image they create when talking to customers. It is also about making make-or-buy descisions, trade-offs between functionality and ease of maintenance.

wvnoort wrote:

But is not only about the image they create when talking to customers. It is also about making make-or-buy descisions, trade-offs between functionality and ease of maintenance.

Take a look at "Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development". Here is the description from Amazon:

Pitfalls of Object Oriented Development -- a survival guide for developers, managers, and executives -- covers the basic concepts and terms of object-oriented development and provides over eighty helpful summaries on how to detect and avoid potential problems. Programming wiz Bruce Webster discusses how to guide a development team through OOD, analysis and design, classes and objects, coding, and quality assurance.

Managers and Executives are one of the targets he writes the "covers the back concepts and terms" stuff for.

BOb

Looks interesting. Thanks for the tip!