April 30, 2001 Dear searchSolaris.com Member, Here are this week's highlights of upcoming news and events: * Site Exclusives * New Poll - Sun Fire * Best Solaris Web Links - Hardware * Learning Zone Book of the Week * SearchSolaris Buyer's Guide * Job of the Week * Win a searchSolaris Hat! * Featured Destination - SearchxSP.com * What software/hardware combination are you running? SITE EXCLUSIVES *Hardware Spotlight: Inside the Sun Fire server SearchSolaris shines the spotlight on some hardware in this new feature. We take you into the Fire -- the Sun Fire server -- with Sun executives and analysts as our guides. You won't get burned in this Fire, but you could learn what keeps it stoked. http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci543237,00.html *Solaris All-Stars: John Philcox SearchSolaris' All-Star Team keeps growing! Meet John Philcox, the man with the write stuff. He just couldn't find the right book about Solaris sysadmin. Poor fella, so what did he do? He wrote his own! http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci547721,00.html NEW POLL Are you planning to fire up Sun Fire and convert your systems to the new line? Go to the searchSolaris home page, take the survey and get instant results! http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/ BEST SOLARIS WEB LINKS - Hardware Without the hardware, there is no software. Or is it the other way around? Either way, we've created this category dedicated to the Sun hardware that works in conjunction with the Solaris. If you're buying refurbished or used Sun equipment, or new equipment for that matter, we can point you in the right direction. http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid12_tax1324,00.html *Sun Fire 280R Sun's product description for the Sun Fire 280R server - one of the first products released which is powered by UltraSPARC III technology. Sun calls the Sun Fire a compact workgroup server that is highly scalable. http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid12_tax1360,00.html LEARNING ZONE BOOK OF THE WEEK *Guide to High Availability: Configuring boot/root/swap, 1/e For computer science courses covering UNIX - Advanced. Guide to High Availability: Configuring boot/root/swap focuses on the system disk, providing configuration and recovery details for all Sun Servers. This book provides a cookbook approach to ensuring system disk availability. In keeping with the goals of simplicity and flexibility, the end result is solutions that scale from the smallest to the largest configurations. http://www.digitalguru.com/dgstore/product.asp?isbn=0130163066&ac_id=68 BUYER'S GUIDE Research and buy products from some of the leading vendors in the Solaris industry, in TechTarget.com's New Buyer's Guide. Visit Verio, a provider of Internet Solutions for growing businesses, large and small. Verio Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a breakthrough Web hosting platform that looks and performs much like a dedicated server, with a price tag comparable to many shared server solutions. Verio VPS is a one-of-a-kind Web hosting product that's ideal for businesses with big needs, small budgets, and limited internal IT resources. http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/buyersGuideVendorPage/0,289745,sid12_cid371187,00.html JOB OF THE WEEK Company: MediaPrise, Austin, TX Position: Technical Architect Click on link below to check out this opportunity as well as the many additional opportunities returned by this search. http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/flipdogFrame/0,289215,sid12,00.html?text=&loc=world_US&srch=Application+and+Architect+and+%28Solaris+or+Sun+or+Unix%29&job=1 And remember to submit your resume and JobHunter agents to auto-notify you regarding opportunities you seek. http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/careers/0,289753,sid12,00.html SUBMIT A TIP - WIN A GREAT PRIZE! 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