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Volume 153, July, 1994
Volume 154, July, 1994
Volume 155, August, 1994
Volume 156, August, 1994
Volume 157, September, 1994
Volume 158, September, 1994
Volume 159, September, 1994
Volume 160, October, 1994
Volume 161, October, 1994
Volume 162, October, 1994
Volume 163, November, 1994
Volume 164, November, 1994
Volume 165, December, 1994
Volume 166, January, 1995
Volume 167, January, 1995
Volume 168, February, 1995
Volume 169, February, 1995


Open Systems Today
Volume 153, July, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 154, July, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 155, August, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 156, August, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 157, September, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 158, September, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 159, September, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 160, October, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 161, October, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 162, October, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 163, November, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 164, November, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 165, December, 1994

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 166, January, 1995

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 167, January, 1995

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 168, February, 1995

                      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


Open Systems Today
Volume 169, February, 1995

                      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