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Anonymous Seven cellular service providers have
founded the CDPD Forum to promote
interoperability among Cellular Digital
Packet Data products and services . . . 4
Anonymous WordPerfect moved aggressively on the
application-suite front with the
announcement that users will be able to
add third-party apps to the
PerfectOffice 3.0 environment . . . . . 5
Anonymous PCExpo attendees groped for their
checkbooks when Apple ran Windows-based
applications on a Power Mac with a DOS-
compatible card --- but it was a
demonstration only, and no product has
been promised . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Information Builders' EDA\slash SQL
middleware product line has been
enhanced and overhauled, providing more
connectivity options, support for
standard client APIs and data
manipulation features for warehousing 8
Anonymous OpenDoc versions for Windows and
OS\slash 2 have been shipped in alpha
form by WordPerfect and IBM,
respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 14
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Clarify and Vantive have each released
multiplatform versions of their customer
service applications . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous IBM has enhanced its AnyNet products,
adding software that allows NetBIOS apps
to run over SNA networks, and more . . . 26
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Stop 5 on OSTs 11-part technical tour
considers network routers --- what they
do, and whether they will be replaced by
LAN switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Legent has introduced a four-module data
mover that passes data efficiently
between disparate databases and
platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Users are looking for tools that combine
network management and system management
functions; so far, no one product is
ideal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous A DEC Alpha AXP server has edged out an
IBM mainframe in the latest
transaction-processing benchmark
competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous IBM has unveiled its new generation of
redundant storage devices for mainframes 48
Anonymous Visix's Galaxy 2.0 cross-platform
toolkit is sure to please developers of
both multiple- and single-platform apps 50
Anonymous A user offers tips on working with the
Distributed Computing Environment . . . 52
Jason Levit Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous Pharmaceutical company Marion Merrell
Dow builds a self-managing database . . 63
Anonymous Sure, writing software is important, but
writing code names can be just as vital 74
Anonymous Chase Manhattan Bank looked at ATM, but
has backed off, at least for now . . . . 1
Anonymous Microsoft will include native support
for Internet multimedia and mail in its
Exchange Server messaging engine . . . . 4
Anonymous Informix shows NewEra, its
object-oriented point-and-click
development tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Apple unveils the Mac System 7.5 OS,
which will come with new PC
compatibility and networking features 6
Anonymous Users have put buying decisions for
Apple's Power Macs on hold, because
native software --- especially office
productivity apps --- is not
materializing as fast as promised . . . 8
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Several electronic mail front ends let
users read and send E-mail from multiple
vendors' transports and servers . . . . 28
Anonymous A new Internet mail package gives mobile
users the same TCP\slash IP interface as
LAN users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Stop 6 on OST's 11-part technical tour
is the wide-area network, where we look
at low-cost ways to multiply effective
bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous New software opens OS\slash 2 Notes
access to data sources reached through
Information Builders' EDA\slash SQL . . 45
Anonymous SunSoft upgrades its Interactive Unix
operating system with NetWare
connectivity, support for PCMCIA
Ethernet cards and more Internet
utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous New machines from NEC, AST and
Intergraph feature multiple processors
and multitasking for the desktop . . . . 50
Anonymous New printers from DEC and QMS are
designed specifically for network duty 52
Anonymous What's in store for the paperless
office: OST Labs looks at the impact of
electronic forms packages . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous A look at Release 6 of JYACC's JAM
multiplatform development package . . . 61
Anonymous IBM's new OS\slash 400 release shows
great progress toward openness . . . . . 62
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 64
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous How investment banker Bear Stearns got a
handle on power faxing . . . . . . . . . 71
Sally Atkins User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Ever fret about late software or vague
manuals? You'll love Karl's new friends 96
Anonymous Dawn of a new era? . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Anonymous More and more these days divining the
object strategies of major computer
companies means understanding the
companies' partnerships . . . . . . . . 1
Anonymous A next-generation Internet protocol
comes into sight at an
engineers'-get-together . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Silicon Graphics revs up the 3-D
performance of its workstation and
server lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sally Atkins THe User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 17
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous A proper comparison of OpenDoc and OLE
means considering not just the base
technologies, but how these technologies
relate to a user's special needs . . . . 28
Anonymous 35om rolls out a redesigned hub chassis,
plus a multiprocessor Ethernet adapter 32
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous OST compares how four database vendors
would handle an application with complex
data types. Among our questions: Which
database would do the best job of voice
recognition? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Object-oriented tools: A guide to what's
available to application builders today 40
Anonymous Object-oriented operating system vendors
are jousting for market primacy. For
now, the lances consist mostly of words 42
Anonymous DEC debuts some top-performing machines
while redefining its organizational
focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous PCMCIA disk-drive cards get a capacity
boost in products from MiniStor and
Calluna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous SQLWindows, Uniface and PowerBuilder
client-server tools make the most of
object-oriented programming . . . . . . 50
Anonymous More vendors are offering products that
meet the Common Object Request Broker
Architecture specification . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Although it represents much of the
allure of objects, creating reusable
code also requires some planning . . . . 60
Anonymous Financial services giant Fidelity
Investments uses distributed object
architecture to build an enterprise-wide
open environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Faced with a lack of E-mail
connectivity, the Energy Department
chose an X.400 gateway . . . . . . . . . 1
Anonymous HP plans distributed capabilities for
OpenView, but not until the middle of
next year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Informix will strengthen its platform
independence this fall with DCE
connectivity and more . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous IBM expands database support in an AIX
NetView release to be announced next
month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous New products are aimed at increasing
Internet security and encouraging
commercial use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Feibus Stantards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Net Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous It appears that Microsoft wants to be
top dog in enterprise computing, but it
has quite a way to go to get there . . . 26
Anonymous Major vendors of E-mail are jazzing up
their products, trying to keep up with a
market that's rocketing toward
multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Four vendors will link their CORBA
implementations to Windows OLE 2.0 . . . 43
Anonymous Version 3.2 of Locus Computing's Merge
Windows-to-Unix software lets users cut
and paste between the two environments 47
Anonymous Why so few Pentium notebooks? Many
vendors are waiting for a cooler version
of the chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous Users are taking a shine to recordable
CDs, which are especially well suited to
archiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous The DECpc Universal Platform now offers
a choice among DEC's three strategic
operating systems --- on entry-level
hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous While the RPC-vs.-messaging debate
rages, users should understand that it's
possible to combine the advantages of
both . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 62
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous An inside look at how Burlington Coat
Factory plans to market its products on
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Sally Atkins User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Karl's neighbor crafts a
network-in-a-box that's a real antique
--- inside and out . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous IBM's first symmetric multiprocessing
systems for Unix are due out this month 4
Anonymous Digital Equipment apparently is
rethinking the value of
processor-independent NetWare . . . . . 5
Anonymous The Santa Cruz Operation's next Unix
version will bring a mother lode of
enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous A piece of the Mosaic picture comes into
focus as Spyglass obtains a master
license to the code from NCSA . . . . . 8
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Intel and AT and T team up to offer
video-conferencing services over AT and
T's telecommunications network . . . . . 30
Anonymous Slow sales of its Improv spreadsheet app
have prompted Lotus Development to
discontinue the product . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Looking to offer vastly improved
throughput, NetManaged adds native ISDN
support to its client Internet software 38
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Spry has incorporated a version of
Mosaic into its latest piece of Internet
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Stop 7 on OST's 11-part technical tour:
A look at what happens when the E-mail
message reaches its destinations . . . . 44
Anonymous The Lisp and Smalltalk object-oriented
languages are receiving integrated
database support . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous A third-party toolset that enhances
OpenView provides reporting
capabilities, custom network views, and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Massively parallel processing is making
inroads in commercial applications . . . 53
Anonymous Several vendors will introduce storage
systems at next month's Unix Expo . . . 54
Anonymous The Software Edge's Defect Control
System manages software bugs within a
LAN environment or on a standalone PC 58
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Making SCSI devices work in harmony
often requires a bag of tricks . . . . . 60
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Middleware is solving the problems of
many organizations that must provide
users with access to diverse databases
and apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sally Atkins User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Ordering pizza over the net just had to
happen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Oracle is announcing new wares this week
at NetWorld-Interop, including a
remote-access product and SQL middleware 4
Anonymous Adobe readies Acrobat 2.0, a
long-awaited version of its document
presentation software with enhanced
integration tools . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Sun plans today to unveil a turnkey
server for quick and easy Internet
access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous The first third-party product for IBM's
25-Mbps ATM implementation is expected
to be introduced today . . . . . . . . . 6
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 24
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Adobe plans to release Illustrator 5.5
for Sun in November, bringing users a
major upgrade for the popular graphics
package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Lotus adds a pager interface to cc:Mail,
letting remote users send and receive
messages up to 240 characters long . . . 36
Anonymous COPD is off to a slow start, as a
shortage of apps has sidelined many
potential users of the wireless datacom
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous At Stop 8, OST's 11-part technical tour
looks at on-line transaction processing,
and how it is moving closer to end users 48
Anonymous Hewlett--Packard introduces distributed
versions of SoftBench development-tool
framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous DCA rolls out a new enterprise software
tool that manages software distribution,
application metering, and remote
diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous Entry-level workstations sell better
when they're loaded with options,
according to recent survey results . . . 62
Anonymous Tektronix introduces the first
entry-level X terminals to have two
PCMCIA slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Commercial alternatives to NCSA's Mosaic
World Wide Web browser compete with the
widely used freeware . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Product review: Blyth Software's Omnis 7
V.3 is a comprehensive development
environment for building complex
client-server GUI applications . . . . . 72
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Swiss Bank has made it a point to
embrace leading-edge technology . . . . 76
Anonymous Northern Telecom sees emulation as a
low-cost route to desktop
interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Sally Atkins User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous A stagestruck Karl lands a supporting
role in a one-man country-and-western
show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Early users of Borland's dBase for
Windows give it high marks, despite its
lack of interoperability with other
database environments . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Apple's decision to license its System 7
operating system is seen as a defensive
move that may be too little, too late to
challenge Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Groupe Bull has introduced its Escala
servers, which are the industry's first
symmetric multiprocessor systems using
the PowerPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 12
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous PC database vendors are bundling
scripting languages and application
development tools so users can customize
local DBs easily . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous IBM has improved its 6611 router models,
and will be adding a new low-end router 30
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Digital Equipment users look like the
big winners in Oracle's purchase of
DEC's DMBS lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Anonymous Legent has introduced a set of
agent-based products that let users
manage databases and Unix systems via
SNMP consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Compaq, AT and T\slash GIS, and IBM join
a growing number of vendors that are
offering PCs with built-in telephony
capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Data General expands its AViiON line of
storage products with a CD juke-box,
management software, and more . . . . . 44
Anonymous Two PPP packages for the Macintosh are
now available: MacPPP and InterPPP . . . 46
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Data access from the desktop is more and
more the job of people who don't know
much about computers, so the job of IS
professionals is to make that access
easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Lockheed is using a process
configuration management system that
provides a dynamic view of the vast
amount of software that's being
developed for the F-22 Stealth fighter
plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sally Atkins User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous Karl gets a call from a desperate
deadbeat --- and leverages his accounts
receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous IBM is set to announce a tool for
managing performance of Oracle, Sybase,
and DB2 databases running on the same
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Hewlett--Packard offers HP 9000 price
cuts to entice users to migrate from
AS\slash 400s; IBM counters with
marketing, price matching . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous The OpenDoc initiative gets a boost as
major vendors unveil plans for tools ---
and the Object Management Group comes
aboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous UnixWare branding program debuts,
allowing other vendors to use the name 6
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 22
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous NetViews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Icon-based programming tools make it
easy for both corporate developers and
end users to customize PC databases . . 36
Anonymous Oracle and Avalon introduce integrated
apps for financial and manufacturing use 40
Anonymous The market is rushing to switching
technology, which threatens to eclipse
hubs and routers . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous A new low-end router is designed to
connect small companies' Ethernet nets
to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Stop #9 on OST's 11-part technical tour:
How network managers integrate SNA
mainframes with distributed TCP\slash IP
nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Data access is the key to success as OST
looks at data warehousing products . . . 58
Anonymous The console from IBM that provides a
single interface for system and network
management will soon enter beta tests 62
Anonymous Visual Edge's Cross-Platform Toolst 1.0
takes a new approach to GUI portability,
examined in OST's in-depth review . . . 70
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous DECathena, Digital Equipment's version
of MIT's Project Athena, managers and
secures huge networks with aplomb . . . 76
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Data warehousing isn't just for
archiving anymore, as users seek to gain
a competitive edge from the technology 82
Anonymous Speed's the word as RISC processor
vendors roll out chips --- most with
64-bit designs --- that are at least
twice as fast as the Pentium . . . . . . 84
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Hewlett--Packard unveils a color laser
printer at a market-leading price of
US\$7,295} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous To sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo,
call it a wolf-proof meat locker . . . . 98
Anonymous A Honeywell spinoff plans to unveil an
Internet firewall server that, among
other things, can help identify
intruders for prosecution . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous IBM will use its own APIs in the
forthcoming ``Lakes'' collaborative
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous IBM's new PowerPC-based RS\slash 6000s
include a low-end workstation with PC
features, and symmetrical
multiprocessing servers . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous The new release of OS\slash 2 is being
positioned as a ``here today''
alternative to Windows 95 . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous A low-voltage 75-MHz Pentium will run
cool enough to be used in notebook
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous SAS Institute's business analysis
software now supports several Unix
platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Mike Azzara My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Banyan teams with Collabra to add
conferencing and scheduling to its mail
platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous CEO Bob Frankenberg says Novell will
focus on its core technologies . . . . . 30
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Oracle has announced remote management
tools for databases and other products 32
Anonymous SunSoft's Wabi 2.0 will support 24
applications, 10 more than before, but
will need Microsoft Windows to do it . . 35
Anonymous LAN servers are stealing some of the
AS\slash 400's thunder in the midrange 38
Anonymous Fujitsu's SPARC-based NFS server
integrates several storage devices in
one box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Spry's Internet In A Box, a dial-up
package for Net connectivity, is on the
right track but isn't as simple as it
sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Human Designed Systems is one of the
first companies to incorporate audio and
video in a line of X terminals . . . . . 42
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Technology transforms a Washington law
firm, as desktop applications, on-line
databases, and electronic mail empower
the barristers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sally Atkins User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous In which Pooh encounters a computer's
strange translations into French and,
sort of, back . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous SunSoft's SolarNet PC-Admin software
includes support for an emerging
Internet standard, DHCP, which allows IP
addresses to be dynamically allocated 4
Anonymous Unify says the latest release of its
visual 4GL lets developers partition
applications and distribute the parts
across a network . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Moving beyond the consulting business,
Teknekron is introducing a packaged
version of its distributed architecture 8
Anonymous An Oracle advertisement was ruled
misleading by a British regulatory body;
the ad was withdrawn, but Oracle
maintains that the offenses were trivial 8
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Financial and accounting applications
add ODBC support as a way to access SQL
databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Lotus' upcoming cc:Mail View will give
management capabilities to cc:Mail . . . 32
Anonymous Cellular Digital Packet Data service
comes to the San Francisco Bay area, but
the once-hyped technology has been slow
to catch on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Stop #10 on OST's 11-part technical
tour: Commerce on the Internet awaits
the resolution of security and
reliability issues . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Mosaic Communications' World Wide Web
browser is now freeware for many users 43
Anonymous IBM's support for C++ and object
technology on MVS mainframes leads Unix
Expo news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous IBM is shipping OS\slash 2 3.0, dubbed
OS\slash 2 Warp, billing it as a ``here
today'' alternative to Microsoft's
forthcoming Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous IBM's new Pentium PCs and servers adhere
more broadly to industry standards than
its existing PC and ValuePoint models 54
Anonymous Product review: Pretty Good Privacy is a
privacy advocate's plan to head off the
government's bid to snoop on data . . . 56
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous A package for PCs and Macs turns
Internet shell accounts into SLIP,
giving users the full benefits of Net
connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 60
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Sun's Wabi Windows translation software
matures, giving Unix users more
flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Role reversal: What happens when
Microsoft stiffens up and IBM lets its
hair down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Cisco is introducing routing software
products that speed SNA traffic on
TCP\slash IP networks . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Lotus will integrate X.500 directory
services into its EMX network backbone
switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Beta users applaud NetWare 4.1, citing
enhanced NDS and new TCP\slash IP
implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Version 5.0 of the Tuxedo transaction
monitor supports more standards and
platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous New servers from Dell, ALR, and Compaq
feature Windows NT support . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous IBM plans to deliver a distributed
version of Smalltalk next year . . . . . 10
Anonymous Ontos middleware gives applications
access to data via a C++ model . . . . . 14
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 17
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Start-up plans to ship multimedia
networking products that eliminate net
bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Symantec adds TCP\slash IP and Windows
95 support to remote-connectivity PC
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Connectivity device gives PC and Mac
users low-cost, 500-Kbps Internet link 51
Anonymous Object analysis and design capabilities
take the spotlight at OOPSLA show . . . 58
Anonymous Objects and microkernels are
cornerstones of modularity for data
sharing in 32-bit OSes . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous New single- and dual-processor RISC
desktops introduced by FirePower and
NeTpower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Microsoft is dropping support for VBXs,
and the replacement lets developers
build compound applications with OLE . . 72
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 74
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Notes' cross-platform abilities win
Texaco's management and users over to a
single workgroup-computing platform . . 84
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Novell held a briefing, God spoke, Mike
came, and so did Mike, and Mike, and
Mike, and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous IS managers at a recent conference
voiced concern over having to support
two management standards: DMI and SNMP 4
Anonymous Here come lots of new DBMS technology,
to be exhibited at two simultaneous
trade shows scheduled for next month . . 5
Anonymous A new Power Macintosh runs DOS and
Windows apps, thanks to a 486
coprocessor card . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Product review: integraph makes NT-NFS
connections: PC users get access to NFS
servers via PC-NFS for Windows NT, while
DiskShare is an NFS server on the PC . . 12
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Documentum 2.0 will include workflow
features and a better management-system
interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Workflow, a hard sell by itself, is
finding success through integration in
vertical apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Support grows for SNA Server, as vendors
introduce connectivity products for
Microsoft's mainframe-to-LAN software 24
Anonymous The Netscape browser goes beyond
standards, raising concerns over
compatibility with future Web standards
and products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Stop #11 concludes OST's technical tour:
Industry experts offer their views on
networks of the future . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous New products linking object and
relational data preserve investments in
legacy databases while adding advantages
of object technology . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous The success of the chip will depend on a
common hardware design, a freely
licensed System 7, and native
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Vendors aim to integrate network
platforms, rolling out products that
link systems managing different parts of
a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous PowerPC-based machines flood the market,
even though a hardware specification is
not due until spring . . . . . . . . . . 57
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 60
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous A law firm that represents high-tech
companies talks about its positive
Internet experience . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Way out in the sticks, we like to talk
about the weather, hydroelectric dams,
and, of course, the latest in computing
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Product Review: As a LAN OS, NetWare 4.1
will be hard to beat . . . . . . . . . . 1
Anonymous An eight-member vendor coalition is
offering a new, robust messaging
infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Lotus plans to retool its communications
server mail engine and add MAPI support 4
Anonymous Liant is shipping a new release of
PL\slash 1 for Unix and Windows NT that
will make it easier to port apps to
smaller platforms . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous OpenStep on Solaris will go into beta
testing early next year . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous IBM and MasPar announced
high-performance data warehousing
packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Business Objects unveiled an upgrade of
its query tool with improved reporting,
multilevel alerts, and off-line
operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Platinum Technology's data-staging
system updates relational servers from a
mainframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous 3Com adds two ASIC-based midrange
switching hub modules for Ethernet
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Nina Lytton Open Systems Advisor . . . . . . . . . . 16
Andy Feibus Standards in Progress . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous A new TV-quality videoconferencing
system from Avistar runs on its own
network and doesn't interfere with the
corporate LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Novell outlines plans to merge messaging
software in the forthcoming NetWare 4.1 34
Anonymous Four industry leaders have formed a
group to promote interoperability
standards for integrating computers and
telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Firefox's NOV'IX NetWare gateway Version
2.2 will be released this week, adding
FDDI support and warm failover
capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Sybase offers an early look at an
indexing product, due next summer, that
will speed up queries against data
warehouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous Distributed job scheduling tools are
vital to today's heterogeneous computing 56
Anonymous Multiprocessor desktops are
proliferating, even though there remains
a shortage of multithreaded applications
for them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous How to design fault-resilient systems,
which offer nearly the same
round-the-clock system uptime as
hardware redundancy --- for a lot less
money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 63
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous GE Plastics customers find a home on the
Net: a World Wide Web address where they
can access 1,500 pages of technical data 72
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Karl must choose between freedom and
Santa's offer of a cozy staff position 90
Anonymous Apple pits Power Macs against Pentiums,
adding memory cache and shipping them
with faster processors and larger disk
drives than previous models . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Secure Internet transmissions are
featured in Netscape Communications' new
World Wide Web server software . . . . . 6
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Microsoft is working toward a
plug-and-play object-based architecture
that offers easy-to-build custom
business solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Novell will soon release a version of
InForms that can be easily integrated
with document management systems,
databases, and E-mail . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous A fundamental shift to switching is
under way, an ASIC-based hardware
clearly begins to push routing out of
the LAN picture . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous Several vendors are working on software
that will let users run World Wide Web
pages on Windows servers . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Porting apps between Windows and Unix is
easier with packages that are
specifically designed for that purpose 32
Anonymous OpenLink Software has announced a
product that allows the interchangeable
development and deployment of
multidatabase applications under
Windows, Unix, and other OSecs . . . . . 34
Anonymous Windows 95 and increased support for
Windows clients will make it easier to
manage PCs as network clients . . . . . 36
Anonymous This quarter's TPC results show little
change, as vendors sit out a few rounds
while benchmarks get an overhaul, and
``benchmark special'' disappear . . . . 37
Anonymous Product review: IXI's Eye2eye links . . 38
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Fault-resilient computing has a software
side, which we investigate in the second
of a two-part series on strategies to
keep applications up and running . . . . 40
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 42
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Cadbury Beverages is building a system
for project management based on Windows,
with Unix servers, an Oracle database,
and a Lotus Notes document management
system melded into the solution . . . . 44
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous New book provides advertising advice for
doing business on the Internet . . . . . 54
Anonymous New versions of two visual development
systems let developers of PC-based GUIs
use COBOL rather than 4GLs to define
business logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Trinzic plans to announce a tool that
lets Notes users access a wide variety
of relational databases from within the
Notes environment . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous A new suite of programs from Oracle
brings the Oracle7 database management
system to PC and mobile laptop users . . 5
Anonymous STL Toolkit, the first commercial
implementation of ANSI- standard
software that eases the writing of
portable C++ code, is now available . . 6
Anonymous Version 3.5 of Objectivity/DB lets
objects created with SQL, C++, and
ParcPlace Smalltalk interoperate within
an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous On Technology has upgraded its Meeting
Maker XP scheduling app to run over the
Internet with TCP\slash IP and Winsock
API support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous A Windows version of the Cornerstone
visual data-analysis tool was announced
by BBN Software . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous TCP\slash IP is gaining a big following
among PC LAN users, who are looking to
more closely integrate all parts of the
enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous A hardware package from Global Village
offers no-frills connections for linking
LANs to the Internet via a 28.8-Kbps
modem or an ISDN line . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous A new group formed by four software
vendors will push for standards and user
education about on-line analytical
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous Oracle is now shipping encryption
software for securing data on SQL*Net
2.1 networks --- even data going to
non-Oracle databases . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous Novell has announced pricing for
UnixWare 2.0, and the increases will now
set the stage for a new round of
competition in the Unix-on-Intel
marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Canon brings out a lower-cost version of
its Object.station Intel 486-based
desktop for developing and running
object-oriented applications under
NextStep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous In-depth review: Sun's Workshop 1.1
leads the field in development systems,
thanks to features that are as good or
better than the competition's --- and
several that are unique . . . . . . . . 34
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 36
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oregon has
turned to a modular architecture to
integrate several legacy
customer-service applications, while
providing for easy addition of new
modules as the system grows . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Wacky playtime is the right kind of
break for brain-weary technical
conference-goers . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous IBM is working on a personal database
that will run under OS\slash 2 and
Windows 95, and will let users access
data on DB2 servers . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous A new version of SunSoft's SunPC
emulation software includes the latest
release of DOS and --- for the first
time --- Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Anonymous Among a flurry of announcements of
commercial World Wide Web servers are
two that allow users to run Web sites
and Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous 3Com has announced module additions to
its LANPlex and SuperStack switching
hubs, letting users have Token Ring
switching for data center and workgroup
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Pacer is set to announce server-based
middleware that will let Windows and Mac
apps access multiple vendors' databases 8
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Third-party support for Lotus Notes
takes off as the user following grows;
IBM, Apple, and AT and T all announce
bundling or integration plans . . . . . 20
Anonymous Banyan Vines gets native TCP\slash IP
client support, plus an application
package for ftp printer sharing and NFS
support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous An E-mail encryption standard should be
in place by April, providing for the
incorporation of Privacy Enhanced Mail
into the MIME standard . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Mercury and ParcPlace announced new
versions of Mercury's automated testing
tools optimized for ParcPlace's
VisualWorks Smalltalk development
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous HP-UX 10.0 will be unveiled this week,
with newly tuned kernel and I/O paths,
plus a multithreaded NFS implementation 34
Anonymous A new portable workstation from RDI
challenges Sun's Voyager with a lighter,
more powerful notebook package . . . . . 36
Anonymous In-depth review: Interleaf's Cyberleaf
converts word- processing documents to
Web pages, mapping document styles to
their HTML equivalents . . . . . . . . . 38
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 40
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous When a comet slammed into Jupiter last
year, the Space Telescope Science
Institute began receiving tons of data
from the watching eye of the Hubble
telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Our senior editor takes a look back on
the past five years of open systems . . 54
Anonymous Cabletron is set to roll out ATM
switches that are designed to migrate
users to ``virtual'' ATM networks that
can be configured by software commands 4
Anonymous IBM will build support for PeerLogic's
Pipes Platform communications middleware
into IBM's System Object Model . . . . . 4
Anonymous A new product from Legent will automate
administrative operations across
mainframe, Unix, and NetWare
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous A new RAID storage array from Encore
Computer will let users share data
between Unix systems and mainframes . . 6
Anonymous Live Internet voice communications via
PCs is offered by three new software
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Industry Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Andy Feibus Standards In Progress . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mike Azzara Mike's View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mitch Irsfeld My View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Collabra Software is adding management
tools to its Share group-conferencing
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Banyan plans to provide protocol
adapters that will link its Unix-based
Enterprise Network Services products to
Oracle databases . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous A new switch from Whitetree Network
Technologies runs ATM and Ethernet
through the same port . . . . . . . . . 22
James Gaskin Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Oracle has released free tools for
accessing its databases over the World
Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Ilog's Views 2.0 supports interactive
2-D graphics and includes standard
widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous On-line analytical processing toolsets
provide new capabilities for analyzing
complex data sets . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous IBM introduces new versions of its job
scheduling and trouble ticketing
distributed tools . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous Software from Enterprise Systems
Management will let administrator groups
collectively manage multiple name
services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous IBM's new Model 3CT RS\slash 6000
workstation provides the industry's best
floating-point price/performance numbers
in the US\$35,000 to {US}\$50,000 price
range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Comparative review: Windows-based
Smalltalks from Digitalk, IBM, and
ParcPlace Systems go head-to-head . . . 34
Bruce Hunter Systems Administration . . . . . . . . . 39
Jason Levitt Shrink Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Gary Bean Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Electronics giant Texas Instruments
tackles desktop resource management,
basing its strategy on Microsoft's SMS 42
Sally Atkins The User Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Looking back at seven wild and wacky
years of Open Systems Today and Unix
Today! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58