Annotation This clearly organized, amiably written guide provides solutions for the interoperability issues that come up when Linux and Windows are used together, including: using Samba and Linux for file and print services, implementing the best connectivity techniques, providing reliable data exchange, providing high performance cross-platform database access via ODBC, making the most of platform-independent, browser-based applications, and managing the two systems at the same workstation with boot managers, partitioning, compressed drives, and file systems. McCune is a consultant in Chicago. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).