======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS June 7, 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 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's Solaris executives look into the future" Solaris executives looked into the future in an interview at JavaOne. What they saw was that the Web-Based Enterprise Management protocol will mean system administrators will only have to maintain one set of agents on their target machines. As for the upcoming Solaris 8 update, it will give system administrators better hooks into the operating system to leverage their efforts better, they said. SOURCE: searchSolaris http://www.searchsolaris.com/qna/0,289202,sid12_gci558496,00.html More information on this topic: General information on Solaris 8 is available at this Best Solaris Web Links site: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid12_tax1333,00.html For the latest searchSolaris JavaOne coverage visit: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/specialEvents/1,289653,sid12_gci556878,00.html =============================================== What did you think of the storage analysts' assessment of Sun's strategy? (http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci555316,00.html) Sound Off! in our new discussion forum at http://searchsolaris.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee8445c. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "Java: Our cup runneth over" [2.] "Tech giants promote use of WBEM standards" [3.] "JavaOne heats up as FatWire challenges Vignette" [4.] "Suns Joy rapturous over Jxta" [5.] "JavaOne: Coordination needed to achieve code reuse" [1.] "Java: Our cup runneth over" San Francisco's Golden Gate has become more like a floodgate, with Java developers by the thousands spilling into town for JavaOne. Many of these folks are just trying to keep up with a technology that changes faster than Starbuck's can open a new store. So many products, so much change, so little time -- Java's jolt can be overwhelming. SOURCE: searchSolaris http://www.searchsolaris.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci558515,00.html =============================================== [2.] "Tech giants promote use of WBEM standards" A number of open source projects and a group of nine companies including Sun Microsystems, HP and IBM have formed an alliance to promote the use of a set of open system management standards known as Web-Based Enterprise Management. The alliance was announced at the JavaOne show. SOURCE: searchSolaris http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci558535,00.html =============================================== [3.] "JavaOne heats up as FatWire challenges Vignette" FatWire Software issued a $100,000 challenge at the JavaOne show to Vignette to compete in a speed trial measuring the development time of the two companies' Internet software applications. FatWire is putting its UpdateEngine5 dynamic content management software and Web application assembly system up against Vignette's software suite. The challenge was made in the wake of Vignette's recent announcement that its content management software is now fully Java compliant. There has been no word from Vignette yet. SOURCE: VARBusiness http://varbusiness.com/sections/News/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=27141 =============================================== [4.] "Suns Joy rapturous over Jxta" Sun's new Jxta effort aims to create a standard, open-source technology for file-swapping services of the type pioneered by Napster and Gnutella. The company hopes to attract enough developers to create a critical mass around Jxta and combat Microsoft's .Net campaign, the centerpiece of a more proprietary vision of Net-based applications. The next few months will decide whether Sun's efforts will pay off. SOURCE: CNET http://cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6208013.html?tag=tp_pr ============================================ [5.] "JavaOne: Coordination needed to achieve code reuse" Companies need to coordinate Java use across their businesses in order to achieve the full benefits of reduced costs, time-to-market and improved code reusability, IT managers at JavaOne said. Cultural and political issues are as important as technology in implementing Java for e-business, they said while sharing techniques they have used to get everyone working in the same Java direction. SOURCE: TechWeb http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20010606S0002 ============================================ Want help streamlining the Solaris systems management process? Then head over to the searchSolaris Tips Exchange where you can read and rate tips from dozens of Solaris administrators, or submit a tip of your own. 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"Bread as a display device -- we have pictures" The Java toaster has made its debut. At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, a Brunel University design student unveiled the appliance, which uses an embedded Java device to access the weather forecast, then burns the appropriate weather symbol onto a piece of toast. It may seem pointless, but this imaginative appliance could soon turn food into the hottest new advertising medium. Well, maybe not, but let's toast the accomplishment anyway. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19442.html ================================================= SOUND OFF! WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK - We're looking for your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve the site. If you have any comments or suggestions on topics you would like to see covered or features you would like to see added, send an e-mail to our Asst. Editor Mark Brunelli at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 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