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TOP NEWS STORIES
* Microsoft says open deposition will create media circus
* Java developers to wait longer for JDK 1.2, HotSpot
* Microsoft, AT&T reach tentative settlement in source code suit
* IBM assembles broad app management framework
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REVIEWS
* Thin-client solutions
NC technology may not cure all PC woes, but it is coming
into its own.
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* NetWare for Linux
This Novell 4.10b server runs under Caldera, Red Hat,
and other Linux distributions. It's fine if you need
to free up a server or add file and print services to
older apps, but it pales compared to recent NetWare
releases. You can't manage NetWare installations from
the Linux console.
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* OmniEnterprise 3.0, prerelease,
Organizations with mission-critical data housed in mixed
database settings will find this data movement software
well worth looking into.
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INTERVIEWS
* Distributed transactions
BEA Systems founders are making their mark.
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* Enrique Salem
Symantec's CTO wants to help you immunize your network.
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* Bob Gett
Viant CEO helps big companies make big money on the Web.
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FEATURES
* Looking out
IT departments are carefully outsourcing selected
maintenance tasks.
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* Internal marketing
IT departments strive for better image and to be
understood.
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* Mentor's Corner
BOC Gases hopes to ignite sales with a cost-cutting
extranet.
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FORUMS
* Technological vigilantism
Is Back Orifice's attack on Windows 95 and 98 a
misguided hack or a serious threat?
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* Hard (drive) times
Are hardware companies' financial problems causing you
to suffer?
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* Get a life
Do we work longer hours because vendors ship substandard
products?
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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MICROSOFT SAYS OPEN DEPOSITION WILL CREATE MEDIA CIRCUS
Microsoft told a federal appeals court Monday that
opening up depositions in the government's antitrust
case against it to the public will create a "media
circus" that will delay the trial.
After The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and other
news organizations requested access, U.S. District
Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled last week
that the depositions should be open to the public
because of a provision of the Sherman Act, which
governs antitrust cases. When the judge refused to stay
the ruling as Microsoft requested, Microsoft appealed
to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/scoop/sc?980818nw1
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JAVA DEVELOPERS TO WAIT LONGER FOR JDK 1.2, HOTSPOT
Saying it needs more time to present a full and stable
release, the Java product team at Sun Microsystems is
again delaying the arrival of the Java Development Kit
(JDK) 1.2 by at least two months, until November.
The postponement in the delivery of the next major
release of the guts behind Java development and
deployment from early fall to late next season will
also set back the emergence of the Java HotSpot virtual
machine accelerator to near the end of the first
quarter of 1999, Sun officials said on Monday.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/scoop/sc?980818nw2
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MICROSOFT, AT&T REACH TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT IN SOURCE CODE SUIT
Microsoft and AT&T have reached a preliminary settlement
in a lawsuit AT&T filed last October seeking access to
the Windows NT 5.0 source code.
Representatives for the two companies declined to
disclose specifics of the settlement, including whether
Microsoft must relinquish the source code or pay AT&T.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/scoop/sc?980818nw3
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IBM ASSEMBLES BROAD APP MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
IBM on Tuesday will unveil a sweeping, Java-based
centralized application management scheme with deep
roots in its OS/2 Warp Server Workspace on Demand
technology.
Under the cross-platform scheme, dubbed Project Orion,
applications are centrally stored and managed, and
dynamically downloaded according to individual users'
profiles. The server technology will allow users to
access their own desktop, regardless of which physical
client on the network they use, and it will let
administrators centrally configure user desktops from
the server.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/scoop/sc?980818nw4
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