======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS June 11, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: Corporate Technologies, Inc. =================================================== Need a custom configured Netra? Need it shipped tomorrow? Corporate Technologies is your source for X1, T1 AC200, D130 and E1 Netras. Configure and buy your Netras, web servers, file servers and mail servers. We're giving away an X1 every week in June! Register to win a FREE X1 at http://www.buyasun.com/index.html?ref=61esssgiv =================================================== LEAD STORY "Sun makes its peer-to-peer bid" Sun last week used its JavaOne conference to highlight Project JXTA, a new peer-to-peer computing effort that faces skeptics who say they have heard it all before. SOURCE: Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0611sun.html Check out searchSolaris' coverage of JavaOne at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/specialEvents/1,289653,sid12_gci556878,00.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. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "Hitachi, Microsoft to pair on data storage" [2.] "IBM and HDS swap programming code for storage servers" [3.] "New report questions Linux server claims" [1.] "Hitachi, Microsoft to pair on data storage" Sun's foe is diving deeper into one of Sun's favorite areas - storage. Microsoft and Hitachi will work together to make and market storage products. Specifically, the pair will develop networks that link various elements of a corporate database and manage them as one system. SOURCE: Reuters http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092464,00.html =============================================== [2.] "IBM and HDS swap programming code for storage servers" More news from the storage front: IBM and Hitachi Data Systems have taken interoperability to the next level. The competing storage vendors have agreed to give each other access to the Application Programming Interfaces for their enterprise storage servers. The deal will let users use the same software on the IBM Shark and HDS Lightning. SOURCE: searchStorage http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci558434,00.html =============================================== [3.] "New report questions Linux server claims" Microsoft is helping stir a debate over Linux's share of the server market. A recent Gartner Dataquest report, co-sponsored by Redmond, found about 9% of server shipments in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2000 were Linux-based. That's considerably less than the figures in an IDC study. SOURCE: eWeek http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2772060,00.html =============================================== Did you know searchSolaris has three site experts currently taking questions on system security, Java and general Solaris administration? 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"Doctor Who" has been more like Doctor Where the last five years.The BBC's sci-fi hero has been on hiatus, but he's coming back, this time over the Internet. The BBC's Web site will broadcast an all-audio episode called "Death Comes to Time" on July 13 in six Real Audio files. Listeners will be able to vote whether they want the TV show to return. In summary: Who: " Dr. Who" What: A new, audio episode Where: BBC on the Web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho When: July 13 Why: Why not? SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19601.html ================================================= SOUND OFF! WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK - We're looking for your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve the site. If you have any comments or suggestions on topics you would like to see covered or features you would like to see added, send an e-mail to our Asst. Editor Mark Brunelli at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 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