======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS May 31, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: The Allied Group ======================================================== How much should my company invest in technology? Will these technologies scale to meet future business needs? How do I make technical determinations to meet my business requirements? The Allied Group's Strategic Technology Analysis can help you on your quest for the right answers. Together with VERITAS Software, The Allied Group provides clients with the continuous availability of business-critical information. Register today at http://www.go-allied.com/STA and receive a FREE PDF of our Strategic Technology Analysis. Learn how The Allied Group can help your company gain a competitive advantage through technology. ======================================================== LEAD STORY "Sun veteran Paolini jumping to Zaplet" One of Sun's Java evangelists is riding off into the sunset. George Paolini will zip over to Zaplet Inc., a startup his old boss, Alan Baratz, has started up. One analyst says Paolini's exit could affect SunONE in the short term. SOURCE: eWeek http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2766770,00.html Read what Paolini said about Sun's open-source plans for Java at http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/10/24/001024hnsunjava.xml. =============================================== What did you think of the storage analysts' assessment of Sun's strategy? (http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci555316,00.html) Sound Off! in our new discussion forum at http://searchsolaris.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee8445c. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "Analyst: Intel's Itanium chip will hurt Sun" [2.] "Chip tests: Itanium wins some, loses some" [3.] "Four storage vendors bundle SAN-in-a-box" [4.] "Sun looks to open-source systems management" [5.] "Sun refutes Internet 'ban' slur" [1.] "Analyst: Intel's Itanium chip will hurt Sun" One analyst predicts Intel's new 64-bit Itanium chip will darken Sun's world and eat away a big piece of its server market pie within two to three years. Officials at other companies (like Dell) have hinted that their Itanium-based products will sell for tens of thousands of dollars less than even Sun's mid-range products. The analyst says it's time for Sun to let go of its distaste for third-party processors. SOURCE: InformationWeek http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010530S0009 =============================================== [2.] "Chip tests: Itanium wins some, loses some" Intel Itanium smacks UltraSPARC III in some areas, but Sun's chip knocks Intel's block off in other areas. Sun dominates in "integer" operations. Sun has this advantage too: The fact that customers and vendors have to make transitions with the Itanium, whereas Sun customers are guaranteed that software written for earlier UltraSPARC chips will run fine on the UltraSPARC III. SOURCE: ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5089932,00.html =============================================== [3.] "Four storage vendors bundle SAN-in-a-box" Four storage vendors are apparently better than one. Qualstar, BakBone, Vixel and Emulex are all bundling together a package that has most of the ingredients to cook up a storage-area-network. The package supports Solaris and should be ready to roll this week. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=26987 =============================================== [4.] "Sun looks to open-source systems management" Over the next few months, Sun is going to be taking nonproprietary stuff, mixing it with industry standards from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and hoping what comes out are open-source-friendly systems-management products developers can use. SOURCE: Smart Partner http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2766745,00.html =============================================== [5.] "Sun refutes Internet 'ban' slur" Sun has told The Register that it isn't cracking down on Internet use at the office for the sake of saving money. The company said the memo "leaked" to the Register is the IT department's annual "remember to conserve WAN bandwidth" memo and has nothing to do with cutting costs. Basically Sun doesn't want Web surfing or e-mails with huge attachments to limit traffic flow. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19318.html ============================================ Want help streamlining the Solaris systems management process? Then head over to the searchSolaris Tips Exchange where you can read and rate tips from dozens of Solaris administrators, or submit a tip of your own. Just click on http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid12_tax281849,00.html. ============================================ TAKE OUR LATEST POLL: Is the economy affecting your company, and you? To answer, go to http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/poll/1,289525,sid12,00.html. ============================================ Have you seen our new "Word of the Week" feature! 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"Hormel is resigned to use of 'spam' in Net slang" Sure, it's side-splittingly funny when a bunch of Vikings sing a chorus of "Spam, spam, spam, spam..." but who can blame the folks at Hormel for getting a little edgy every time the name of their most famous brand of "meat" product is used to denote something most email users despise? Still, Hormel has decided not to buck popular culture and says it will no longer fight as aggressively to stamp out the derogatory use of the term spam. They only ask that when using the word to describe their luncheon meat, the word be capitalized so that the terms can be more easily distinguished. Perhaps a better differentiator is this: One you eat. The other you delete. SOURCE: Saint Paul Pioneer Press http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/026425.htm ================================================= SOUND OFF! WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK - We're looking for your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve the site. 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