Last update: Mon Sep 20 07:27:35 MDT 2010
Volume 153, July, 1994Anonymous 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