======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS September 21, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== 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. Visit: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3179218;5058249;p?http://www.StorageDecisions2001.com. ================================= LEAD STORY "Microsoft's .Net: Not a J2EE killer" Sun doesn't have a whole lot to worry about. Giga analysts think Microsoft will grab about 35% of the enterprise development market over the next couple of years. That's a good showing for .Net, but the Microsoft platform still has a lot to prove before it can make any huge dents in the dominance of Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition. Analysts point to J2EE's mature clustering, load balancing, and failover technology, and Java's utility as an enterprise application builder as reasons it will be the platform of choice. SOURCE: InformationWeek http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010920S0011 Read more at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid12_gci558204,00.html. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1] "IIS trembles before Zeus" [2] "User optimistic about HP's new midrange server" [3] "Western European server revenues fall" [1] "IIS trembles before Zeus" The Zeus is loose. The new Zeus Web server apparently runs at an ungodly speed and could beat Microsoft and Apache in the quick department. In tests conducted by IT Week, the Zeus Web Server 4.0 was twice as fast as IIS and beat Apache by 42%. SOURCE: IT Week http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095656,00.html =============================================== [2] "User optimistic about HP's new midrange server" HP midrange server users recognize the gap the company had between its N-class servers and its high-end Superdome machines. The company's announcement Tuesday that its new rp8400 midrange Unix box would fill that gap has been warmly greeted by users like Massachusetts-based Yankee Candle's system administrator Dave Nardi. Nardi sits down with searchHP for a question-and-answer interview. SOURCE: searchHP http://searchhp.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid6_gci771053,00.html =============================================== [3] "Western European server revenues fall" IDC reports that the server sales slump has spread from the U.S. across the Atlantic to Western Europe. But that region's server market still saw better numbers than many other world markets. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21774.html =============================================== This week's searchSolaris Featured Topic is "The UltraSPARC III" Get your fill of UltraSPARC III info at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid12_gci759152,00.html. Discuss the UltraSPARC III chip and other pieces of Sun hardware at http://searchsolaris.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee8445b. ====================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM WEB LINK OF THE DAY ====================================== "Putting UltraSPARC III in perspective" SearchSolaris traces the headlines over the past several years to give you a sense of the anticipation building up to Sun's release of its first two computers based on the UltraSPARC III processor, the roots of which date back to 1997. SOURCE: searchSolaris http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,,sid12_gci342128,00.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... ================ "Ants hold clues to speedier Internet" Before you reach for that can of Raid, remember this: That ant in your kitchen could hold the key to a better Internet, in addition to holding the Cheez-It scraps that fell out of the box. A new book says the way ants do business is similar to the way the Web works. And, therefore, ant behavior may be the key to making it work better. An explanation? Ants know how to get out of the nest, find food and get it back to the nest in the shortest amount of time and in the most efficient way. They mark their trails with a chemical so everyone knows the route, doesn't get lost and doesn't hold up the flow. (Have you ever seen an ant traffic jam?) Some engineers say we should apply that concept to the Internet and traffic data like an ant would. The result would be a more efficient flow of data with fewer jams. Plus, no one has to pay ants any intellectual fees for their concept. SOURCE: The New York Times http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/online20.htm ================================================= System administrators know how important it is to stay informed in the highly competitive IT marketplace. That's why every other week we send out our popular Solaris system administrator tips. Getting to know all the intricacies of Solaris is a never-ending process, and our administrator tips are a convenient way to learn something new about the OS that you might have overlooked in the past. Don't wait to start receiving these timesaving tips. To edit your profile today, go to http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/register/1,,sid12,00.html. ================================================= SOUND OFF! 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