======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS August 27, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: Ecora ======================================= Sick and tired of manually documenting your system configurations? Automate it! Ecora's Documentor for Solaris remotely collects configuration data from systems and generates an HTML report detailing how all systems are configured. The plain-English reports are useful for security assessment, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, migration, and more. No agents to load, no scripts to write, and installation takes only minutes. Download a FREE copy to trial on one server for 7 days. https://www.ecora.com/ecora/products/welcome_solaris.asp ======================================= LEAD STORY "iPlanet ships integration servers" IPlanet is showing off a pair of new servers -- Integration Server B2B Edition and Integration Server EAI (enterprise application integration) Edition. Put these two products in the same room as Message Queue for Java, and you have yourself an integration platform! IPlanet is helping blur the line between application development and integration. The servers will be ready within a month. SOURCE: InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/27/010827hniplanetserv.xml Read about the changes in store at iPlanet at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid12_gci763058,00.html. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1] "Sun still cool on Linux" [2] "HP's service effort on track, has way to go" [3] "New worm poses as helpful program" [4] "Microsoft splits C# and Visual Basic roadmaps" [5] "New judge assigned in Microsoft trial" [1] "Sun still cool on Linux" HP is giving the cold bird a warm hug -- is Sun giving that cold bird the cold shoulder? HP said last week it will give Linux enterprise-class security. Sun has yet to go that far with Linux. The company says it is fully committed to Linux, but for the low-end. Some analysts think Sun's Linux strategy makes the company look slow to adopt new technologies. SOURCE: InteractiveWeek http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2807725,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 =============================================== [2] "HP's service effort on track, has way to go" When Carly Fiorina took the reins at HP, she was supposed to steer the wagon down a different path -- from hardware shop to a hardware/services shop. Many attendees at HP World 2001 said the company is headed in the right direction, but still has a ways to go before reaching its destination. One attendee, for example, said HP needs to be more aggressive, like Sun and IBM, when it comes to keeping his business. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.idg.net/ic_674449_1794_9-10000.html =============================================== [3] "New worm poses as helpful program" Beware of bad worms in good worms' clothing. "Win32.All3gro.A" promises to purge nasty viruses from computers, but experts say it really leaves the viruses intact and treats files like a buffet. SOURCE: Reuters http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6962764.html?tag=owv =============================================== [4] "Microsoft splits C# and Visual Basic roadmaps" As soon as Visual Studio.Net rolls out of Redmond later this year, Microsoft will make C# more like Java and simplify Visual Basic for Rapid Application Development (RAD) environments. Microsoft is afraid VB developers will either not use the language to build Web services or defect to Java. SOURCE: Computerwire http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2093679,00.html =============================================== [5] "New judge assigned in Microsoft trial" It's been a busy day in Washington -- a federal court has picked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to wield the gavel in the Microsoft antitrust case. Also, a federal appeals court shipped the Microsoft case off to trial court. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6960700.html?tag=lthd =============================================== This week's searchSolaris Featured Topic is "Sun and the storage market." See all of our storage resources at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid12_gci755010,00.html. Discuss Sun's storage plans with your peers at http://searchsolaris.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee8445b. ========================== FREE STORAGE CONFERENCE!! ========================== **Storage Decisions 2001** If you're going to spend $5 million+ on storage hardware and software next year, don't miss a must-attend FREE conference developed just for you. Attend Storage Decisions 2001 in Chicago September 26-28. Learn to set strategy/make the smartest decisions to most effectively manage your storage initiatives for 2002. Pre-qualified audience of your peers and NO vendor sales pitches. 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SOURCE: searchSolaris http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid12_gci762538,00.html See all of our hand-picked BEST WEB LINKS at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,,sid12,00.html. ================ THE MISSING LINK A look at an off-the-wall story from the Web... ================ "Keyboards spread disease" When was the last time you washed your hands? Apparently humans are not the only organisms getting hip to the computer age. Bacteria are too. Britain's "The Mirror" conducted an experiment in a London office and found that computer keyboards are popular bacterial hangouts. The little things love the warmth (no word which keys they prefer - maybe the letter "b" for "bacteria"?). The experiment did not turn up the really sickening stuff like salmonella and E. coli, but there's always next time! 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