======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS June 1, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: Radiant Resources, Inc. ======================================================== Stop spending hours looking for a reliable and cost-effective alternative for Sun Microsystems computers. Radiant Resources leases, rents and sells reconditioned servers, workstations and components. Functionally equivalent to new Sun systems, reconditioned Sun offers you an identical solution at a significantly reduced cost. That means more money in your capital budget to fund the projects you need. One year unconditional warranty. Visit Radiant's site to configure and price your own servers. http://www.radiantresources.com ======================================================== LEAD STORY "JavaOne promises to be big" Java -- a topic so piping hot it should come with a warning label. Like hippies to the Haight, Java junkies by the thousands will be flocking to San Francisco for Sun's 2001 JavaOne Developer Conference. Hot products, hot topics, burning issues -- searchSolaris will have them covered. Yes, we're going to San Francisco, substituting laptops and notepads for flowers in our hair. SOURCE: searchSolaris http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci557196,00.html Read more about the conference at http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/home/0-sf2001.jsp. Be sure to point your browsers to http://www.searchsolaris.com all next week for complete coverage of Sun's 2001 JavaOne Developer Conference. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "IBM bests Sun in battle for U.S. server market" [2.] "IBM adds more standards in WebSphere release" [3.] "Microsoft allies dismiss new monopoly allegations" [4.] "Virus writers pay their curious homage to Unix" [5.] "Windows XP will make Internet unstable - top security expert" [1.] "IBM bests Sun in battle for U.S. server market" Round one of the IBM vs. Sun bout goes to the company from Armonk, NY wearing the Big Blue trunks. Gartner says IBM spanked Sun in Q1 in terms of U.S. server sales. IBM took a 30.2% share of the U.S. market; Sun took 23.1%. Globally, sales for both were steady. SOURCE: Reuters http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=27014 =============================================== [2.] "IBM adds more standards in WebSphere release" IBM is competing with Microsoft for your Web services business, and here's Big Blue's latest product to woo you -- a fresh WebSphere Studio and Workbench toolkit. WebSphere Application Server Version 4 will be Big Blue's first server software product to include support for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. It also supports a variety of open standards such as XML, UDDI, SOAP and EJB. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0530ibm.html =============================================== [3.] "Microsoft allies dismiss new monopoly allegations" The empire strikes back. A trade group called the Association for Competitive Technology took a shot at Microsoft's foes, including Sun, refuting allegations that Windows XP and the .Net strategy are Redmond's game pieces in a game of Internet monopoly. Microsoft founded the trade group that did the refuting. SOURCE: Newsbytes http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166286.html =============================================== [4.] "Virus writers pay their curious homage to Unix" Unix has made it - as a target for virus writers. Analysts at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) say more and more self-propagating worms are worming through Solaris, and more hackers are picking at its vulnerabilities. The recent sadmind/IIS worm, for example, has spanked more than 500 Solaris machines. SOURCE: IT-Director http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=991295523&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=44762&REQSTR1=newsnow =============================================== [5.] "Windows XP will make Internet unstable - top security expert" Windows XP -- will it do to the Internet what a quake does to a building? Security expert Steve Gibson tells The Register that the OS could make the Internet unstable because it will let too many people launch uncontrollable denial-of-service attacks to whichever IP address they want. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19332.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. 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