Hi friends, A few days back I had posted that the AOL/Netscape & Sun Microsystems alliance is going ahead with a complete makeover of the Netscape brand by gradually dropping the brand name in favor of iPlanet (Ref: "[ilug-cal] Move over Netscape, iPlanet is here...."). Although Netscape executives have publicly stated since July of last year that open-source Linux would be a critical platform for its server products, the news is that the forthcoming release of Netscape Application Server (NAS version 4.0) is not going to be ported to Linux. According to Roseanna Marchetti, senior product marketing manager of the Alliance's app server products, "Linux is fun, it definitely has a cool factor... but it isn't one of the operating environments that our customers are asking for" (NOTE : According Marchetti the last quarter is the best one yet for NAS....they have sold 75 copies of NAS all told! ;-) The NAS 4.0 priced at $35,000 per CPU, will include Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Server Page technology (JSP) and the Java Servlet API, and also support SNMP standards. It is slotted for release in August on Windows NT and Solaris. Ports to HP/UX and Digital will be released in the following months. --Indra. For further info on this story :-- 1. Slashdot --> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/27/1616215 2. ZDNet --> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2302991,00.html 3. The press release --> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990727/ca_sun_net_1.html Indian Linux User Group -- CALCUTTA Chapter --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing List : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-Site : http://www.ilug-cal.org/ (under construction) Web Page : http://members.tripod.com/ilugcal/ (temporary site) --------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux -- MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/faq/listfaq.html
