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by sam99

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I am a Project Manager for a large financial firm. I have been brought on to represent business side needs during both internal development projects and external vendor contracts. Just as I thought it was silly that the firm had developers coding away w/o checking in with the business side, I think it is silly of me to try to communicate with a group of developers w/o knowing any of their language. I have no IT background - but I want to learn BASIC info/interdependencies - thin client, mid-tier, CITRIX/WinFrame, ProVisor, ActiveX, UNIX platform, Websphere, OS390, ZEKE, ERWIN, DB2, UDB, WinSock, MQSeries, People Soft, J2EE, Stonebranch XML schema etc. - what does this stuff mean? Please suggest sites, books, etc. anything for an interested "suit" cuz I've asked the developers and, well, now I'm asking you.

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by andrew.mizzi

Most of those even I haven't heard of. Hopefully that doesn't reflect my IT knowledge, I'm supposed to be an expert, for my clients sake.

I guess, start off with finding an IT glossary such as http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/?st.cn.fd.tb.rs and find out the basics. Then, info about some of the stuff, can be found at the manufactuers websites, such as IBM for websphere and db2, Microsoft for activex etc.

Then, you can try to find some basic books, maybe one in the dumbies series (no reflection to your knowledge, I have a few and they offer some good info on a whole range of info).

Hope this helped.

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