======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS June 20, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM FEATURED CONFERENCE ============================================ 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference June 25-30, 2001 Marriott Copley Place Hotel Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/ Conference begins next week, so register TODAY! ============================================ LEAD STORY "Sun, Veritas push NAS bundle exclusively via distributors" Sun will bundle its T3 storage array with Veritas' ServPoint software in the name of network-attached storage. The tidy package will be available through two Sun distributors, MOCA and GE Access. Veritas' new software was designed for Solaris 8 and should work with all of Sun's servers. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=27494 For more on Sun and the storage market, go to http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid12_tax287099,00.html. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1] "Sun to buy e-learning software vendor" [2] "Server discounts up for grabs, says Giga" [3] "Lotus touting its answer to .Net" [4] "McNealy: Microsoft monopoly must be broken" [5] "Sun tweaks its July days-off plan" [1] "Sun to buy e-learning software vendor" Sun will buy e-learning software developer Isopia Inc. and be able to mine that company's integrated learning-management system, which is a Java-based software package that manages and delivers online learning via the Web. Isopia will be integrated into Sun Educational Services. SOURCE: InformationWeek http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010619S0009 =============================================== [2] "Server discounts up for grabs, says Giga" According to Giga, companies can save lots of cash when they go server shopping simply by playing competing vendors against each other. Case in point: One Giga analyst said IBM offered one of his customers a 70% price cut in a single server environment, provided the company sold its Sun infrastructure. "If you have a Unix environment and ask for the moon, you will probably get it," said Giga's Vice President, Brad Day. SOURCE: vnunet http://www.vnunet.com/News/1123338 =============================================== [3] "Lotus touting its answer to .Net" Like Sun and SunONE, Lotus is another company in the "Thunderdome" taking on Microsoft and its .Net initiative. Lotus Development is making sample Web services applications and templates available free for download over IBM's alphaWorks Web site. At least one analyst thinks the Lotus/IBM internal conflict could benefit Redmond in the long term. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=27466 =============================================== [4] "McNealy: Microsoft monopoly must be broken" Ever get the feeling Scott McNealy would like to bend Microsoft over his knee and give it a good spanking? The Sun chief thinks Microsoft is more about monopoly than Parker Brothers and that if the appeals courts don't stop it, Microsoft will wield its dominance over the core software of personal computers to become Lords of the Internet. Instead of splitting up the company, McNealy would rather Uncle Sam ban Microsoft from spending its cash on anything except dividends and its own core business. SOURCE: Mercury News http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/sun062001.htm =============================================== [5] "Sun tweaks its July days-off plan" Sun to its salaried California employees: "You don't have to take a break, but we'd sure like you to." The company says it will not require some of its workers to take the first week of July off, but those folks are being encouraged to do so to save some Sun dollars. Apparently some legal questions got into the mix. SOURCE: Mercury News http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/061249.htm =============================================== Are you running Solaris on Intel? Then check out our newest Ask the Expert section featuring Solaris on Intel guru Chris Baker. He's available to answer any questions you have on the subject at http://searchsolaris.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee84c40. ============================================ Take our latest poll: What was the biggest benefit you derived from JavaOne this year? Give us your answer at http://www.searchSolaris.com/poll ============================================ LEARNING ZONE FEATURED BOOK OF THE WEEK ============================================ "Designing and Programming CICS Applications," by John Horswill Each part of Designing and Programming CICS Applications addresses the design requirements for specific components and gives a step-by-step approach to developing a simple application. The book reviews the basic concepts of a business application and the way CICS meets these requirements. It then covers a wide range of application development technologies, including VisualAge for Java, WebSphere Studio, and Visual Basic. Users learn not only how to design and write their programs but also how to deploy their applications. http://www.digitalguru.com/dgstore/product.asp?isbn=1565926765&ac_id=68 ====================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM WEB LINK OF THE DAY ====================================== "At the root of rootkits" This article describes in detail the contents of a rootkit found on a system running Solaris 2.6, belonging to the Honeynet Project network. Even though the contents of the rootkit are Solaris programs, they can be classified as basic utilities found in any rootkit. (Jan. 25, 2001) SOURCE: CNET Builder http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7532-8-4561014-1.html?tag=st.bl.7532.edt.7532-8-4561014 ================ THE MISSING LINK ================ A look at an off-the-wall story from the Web... "The Tower of Babel is crumbling" Half to 90% of the world's 6,800 languages could become extinct in the next 100 years, linguists predict. One reason is because half of all languages are spoken by fewer than 2,500 people each. Languages need at least 100,000 speakers to survive. War and genocide, natural disasters, the adoption of more dominant languages and government bans on language are other reasons. It is all very sad. When a language dies, the world loses rich sources of material for documenting a people's history. Too bad high tech jargon and marketing lingo are not on the list of endangered tongues, though. Time for a government ban? SOURCE: The Associated Press http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44631,00.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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