======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS June 28, 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 set to end Solaris download program" Last call! The free access to Solaris ends Saturday as will a related chat site and code-exchange service. Sun started the Solaris 8 Foundation Source download program last year. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.idg.net/ic_637776_1773_1-3921.html For more on the Free Solaris program, go to http://www.sun.com/solaris/binaries/. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1] "Appeals court: Don't break up Microsoft" [2] "Analyst: Sun shines with SAPMarkets deal" [3] "A Windows for supercomputing?" [4] "Microsoft uses open source, despite critical stance" [5] "HP-UX comes to Itanium" [1] "Appeals court: Don't break up Microsoft" Let's try this again! A federal appeals court has vacated last year's ruling that Microsoft be broken up, sent the case back to a lower court and recommended a new judge hear the case. This is a blow to Sun and other MS competitors who have pushed the case. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6403181.html?tag=lh =============================================== [2] "Analyst: Sun shines with SAPMarkets deal" A new deal with SAP opens the door for Sun to offer pre-configured SAPMarkets' online exchange MarketSet software on Solaris. An analyst calls the agreement a win-win situation and says it's in SAP's "best interest to move beyond the NT platform." SOURCE: searchSAP http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci752033,00.html =============================================== [3] "A Windows for supercomputing?" Windows XP is still waiting in the wings, but the 64-bit Windows for Itanium has already launched on a few select high-end computers. Windows for Itanium is Microsoft's first foray into 64-bitdom, where Sun and Silicon Graphics rule. The product will run most existing 32-bit Windows apps, so engineers and developers who were using a Sun UltraSPARC or HP-UX box for their core tasks and a Windows PC for Microsoft Office could now do everything on one machine. SOURCE: PC World http://www.idg.net/ic_637418_1794_9-10000.html =============================================== [4] "Microsoft uses open source, despite critical stance" Wait a minute! The company that makes no bones about its disdain for the open source movement in general and the GNU General Public License specifically, has been publishing source code under that license for the past two years. Microsoft's own Interix, used to port Unix applications to Windows, includes a software compiler called the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), which is covered by the GPL. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0627msopen.html =============================================== [5] "HP-UX comes to Itanium" The California Institute of Technology is one of the first to run 64-bit Itanium architecture systems on HP-UX 11i, Hewlett-Packard's Unix operating system, and Caltech has nothing but rave reviews. SOURCE: searchHP http://searchhp.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid6_gci751415,00.html ============================================ Are you running Solaris on Intel? Then check out our newest Ask the Expert section featuring Solaris on Intel guru Chris Baker. He's available to answer any questions you have on the subject at http://searchsolaris.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee84c40. To see all of our Ask the Expert categories, click on http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/ateExpertsBios/0,289621,sid12,00.html. ============================================ Take our latest poll: What was the biggest benefit you derived from JavaOne this year? Give us your answer at http://www.searchSolaris.com/poll ============================================ LEARNING ZONE FEATURED BOOK OF THE WEEK ============================================ "Solaris System Management," by John Philcox Solaris System Management provides the system manager with the information they need to make the critical, higher level, "architectural" decisions such as large project rollouts and their impact. Philcox addresses the specific needs of the System Manager working in a Solaris environment focusing on task-oriented solutions for the critical decision this demanding job requires. For example, the book covers how to work through the decision of upgrading to a new version of the OS involving many complex issues. Other examples include managing core infrastructure services, balancing security with distributed name, and meeting the customer's needs and priorities or Service Level Agreements (SLAs). http://www.digitalguru.com/dgstore/product.asp?sku=073571018X&dept%5Fid=242&ac%5Fid=68&accountnumber=&couponnumber= ====================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM WEB LINK OF THE DAY ====================================== "Storage basics" This EMC site has a great listing of storage terms and their associated definitions. It covers the gamut of terms, including: disk striping, LUNs, and SCSI. SOURCE: EMC http://www.emc.com/ir/basics/ ================ THE MISSING LINK A look at an off-the-wall story from the Web... ================ "The outernet is coming" The Internet may be way cool, but the 83 million people who log on each day is way less than half of the number of people finishing the 300 million daily point-of-sale transactions at places like American checkout counters and ballpark stands. Advertisers and marketing people recognize this, and never slow to miss an opportunity, they are gearing up to take advantage of what they're calling the "outernet." The O-Net currently exists in the form of interactive kiosks and public-access terminals, but it figures to eventually be a collection of electronic billboards positioned everywhere imaginable. One edge the outernet may have on the "traditional" Net: You don't have to be computer literate to participate. Score one for the dumbing down of America! 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