======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS July 11, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: Radiant Resources =============================================== Congratulations to Gary Hatt for winning a fully configured Sun Ultra 5 during our recent SearchSolaris promotion! If you are looking for new, unused or reconditioned Sun workstations, servers or components, check out http://www.radiantresources.com for discount pricing, responsive customer service and the strongest warranty in the industry. Immediate delivery on most systems. Leasing and equipment trade-in available. Visit http://www.radiantresources.com/rewards now and register to win a brand new DVD Player with any purchase by 7/15/01. =============================================== LEAD STORY "Is Sun in a storage deal with Hitachi?" An analyst "in the know" says Sun has inked a deal with Hitachi Data Systems to sell the latter's high-end storage products. Look for an official announcement in the next few weeks. SOURCE: ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093967,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 Read more about Sun and the storage market at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci555316,00.html?Exclusive=True. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "Update: Compaq moves to cut more jobs" [2.] "Intel halts sales of defective server chip" [3.] "Hole found in Check Point's FireWall-1 and VPN-1" [4.] "Microsoft gives blessing to open-source .Net, but analyst smells a rat" [1] "Update: Compaq moves to cut more jobs" Another sign of anemic economic times on both sides of the Atlantic: Compaq will lay off another 4,000 workers thanks to a lack of business. The company's total number of jettisoned jobs this year will reach 8,500. SOURCE: ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO62107,00.html =============================================== [2] "Intel halts sales of defective server chip" Apparently there's one chip that's REALLY down, but it will soon be up again. Intel's new and improved version of the Pentium III Xeon top-end server chip should be ready to go by mid-August; for now Intel will swap out the defective chip with the slower 700MHz version. Intel stopped shipping the chip in April because of a bug that could crash servers. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6539683.html?tag=owv =============================================== [3] "Hole found in Check Point's FireWall-1 and VPN-1" There's a hole in the wall. A group of security experts found a chink in Check Point Software's Firewall-1 and VPN-1 firewalls that could let intruders push unwanted traffic into or out of corporate networks. CERT says the hole could open up a nasty can of worms, from snooping to denial-of-service attacks. Check Point has a patch - you may want to check it out. SOURCE: ComputerWorld http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/07/11/010711hncheckhole.xml =============================================== [4] "Microsoft gives blessing to open-source .Net, but analyst smells a rat" Microsoft has said in public that Ximian's "Mono" project, an open-source version of .Net, is flattering and a nod to the .Net strategy and Redmond's vision of Internet services. But an analyst says beware of software giants bearing kind words. He says Ximian may find itself trying to keep up with Microsoft - a move that could prove mortal. SOURCE: InternetWeek http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20010710S0006 ============================================ Are you running Solaris on Intel? Then check out our newest Ask the Expert section featuring Solaris on Intel guru Chris Baker. 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