Doug Kaye is the CEO of RDS Strategies LLC and the publisher of the IT Strategy Letter.
Most non-programmers think of transactions as associated with buying and selling, credit-card authorizations, and the like. But in the jargon of computer science, the word transaction has a very specific meaning: the interaction and managed outcome of a well-defined set of tasks.Feb. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,985
