Theoretically, announcements of new software products should spread over the year, and not falling together; Contrary to the myth, there is no way to synchronize your plans with your competitor, because some plans are secret, some others are not known even to their own developers, some are planned a lot of time in advance and you can't blame their planner for trying to synchronize with anybody, there are a lot of "baltams" - such as delays in the development, bugs of the last minute, etc.
Nevertheless, sometime there is a short time (about a month) with so many announcements - like it was a year and not a month; Such time is expected soon. If you want me to specify a date, I would say "Oct. 1, plus-minus 20 days": 1. New release from RedHat (happens about twice per a year). 2. New release from Mandrake (happens about twice per a year). 3. "Orion" - a new package from Sun, that replaces the current OS; Instead of buying Solaris separately, Web Application Server separately, messaging/collaboration system separately, compilers separately, etc., you can but everything together. Although the number of the core OS hasn't changed (Solaris 9), it is a new OS, with a new GUI (GNOME!), etc. Sun calls it "Sun One", and it's a real revolution. 4. GNOME 2.4. 5. Samba 3.0: finally removes the gap that was opened by Microsoft. 6. Microsoft: Well, here comes a real blitz, so take a deep breath and sit in convenience: Office 2003, Project 2003, Visio 2003, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and a lot of other products. Everything in one month - October. I don't remember such a dramatic announcement from Microsoft. 7. OpenOffice 1.1. Although the summer is going to end, things are getting hotter, and no matter if it's Linux, Sun, or even Microsoft - it's always good for the users. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
