Network World back issues from November 1998:
Beyond the green screen.(IBM)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Traditional host-access vendors boost their product lines to bring on the Web. We know, we know. Age of the Internet, downsizing and (yawn) 70% of our data is still sitting on IBM mainframes, blah, blah, blah. We know! The question is: What are vendors doing about helping you ...
Java adds oomph to 3270 clients.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Please step in and lie down, the doctor is in for consultations. As a network architect at Houston-based Sprint Paranet, Blass understands the strain of people who are developing and managing intranets. Send your problems to dr.intranet@paranet.com. We're considering our options ...
The Internet and the Citgo sign.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 14 that the Internet, or at least a "chunk" of it, to use the Journal's terminology, was given to the Library of Congress. It turns out that Alexa Internet, a Web crawler company in Seattle, gave the library an archive of a half million ...
Agents make suite diagnoses.(VitalSuite 2.0 from VitalSigns Software )(Software Review)(Evaluation)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Web site found. Waiting for reply. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting . . . Look familiar? Do you often wonder whether the problem is with your local network, the ISP's backbone or the content provider's servers? Until now, that's been a tough question to answer. However, ...
Hire an automated assistant.(General Magic's Portico )(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... In the movies, important executives have secretaries who screen their calls, know where to find them in case of urgent messages and keep their schedules up-to-date. In real life, with modern telephones and computer applications, you can do 80% of what a secretary used to do. Stop the ...
Preparing for ERP.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS CALL FOR CAREFUL - AND GENEROUS - CAPACITY ESTIMATES. After a year of intense network planning, Becton Dickinson next month is slated to turn on a SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at the first of 180 sites worldwide. By the ...
The next big thing: Management intranets.(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Intranets have taken off over the past few years, giving enterprises of all sizes the benefits of both bottom-up and top-down information sharing. Now management intranets are set to experience a similar burst of popularity. A management intranet uses World Wide Web technologies ...
Clinton's Internet policy is just another white lie.(Clinton administration's Internet white paper "A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce" )(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... A year ago in this space I called the Clinton administration's Internet white paper "A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce" a masterpiece of subtle deception. Authored by Ira Magaziner, Clinton's top Internet advisor, the document appears to advocate reliance on market forces and ...
Deadly propaganda.
Nov 02, 1998; ... The message "How would you like to be Bill Clinton's friend?" that is circulating via the Internet, which details the numerous "mysterious" deaths among Clinton friends and associates, is a perfect example of what Mark Gibbs writes about in his column " 'Net's potential as a propaganda ...
Everything old is new again.(Ericom Software's PowerTerm family of products)(Product Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... While it's a truism that there's nothing new under the sun, it's still possible to find new ways to do old things. A good example is Israeli vendor Ericom Software. In 1993, when Ericom was founded by Eran Heyman, the last thing the computer world needed was another terminal emulation ...
LAN switches emerge from new sources.(D-Link Systems DES-3224, 3M Volition, Hitachi HiSpeed 170 )(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998; ... 3M, Hitachi and D-Link introduce low-priced products. Ethernet switches from some unexpected vendors have been popping up of late. 3M, Hitachi and D-Link each have helped reinforce the commodity status of LAN switches by unveiling low-priced products. Hitachi ...
Risky business.(Startups)(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Do you have what it takes to be your own boss and succeed? Enough was enough for Onami Bernheim. Managing the network for the Legal Aid Society of San Diego after a stint in the Marines as a computer technician sent him over the edge. "Most people in charge are ...
Dell.(Dell Computer PowerEdge 6350)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Dell last week announced a high-end PC server with a small form factor called the PowerEdge 6350. Dell is aiming the 6350 at ISPs or large corporate enterprises that run online transaction processing, messaging and data warehousing applications. Depending on configuration, this ...
Spectra.(Spectra Logic 10000F Tape Library)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Boulder, Colo., storage tape manufacturer Spectra Logic will announce a new Fibre Channel tape library device for use in storage-area networks (SAN). The device, called the 10000F Tape Library, comes with an internal bridge that translates Fibre Channel protocols into SCSI. The ...
Web server performance optimization.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Traditionally, Web servers have been designed to interface with relatively low speed WAN connections to the Internet. While there may have been many people accessing the server at once, none of them had a high-speed connection that would require a high performance machine. Today, with the ...
Gigabit Ethernet Buffered Distributors: Calculating Bandwidth.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Nearly six months ago, we considered the potential savings of the Gigabit Ethernet buffered distributor - essentially a hybrid between shared and switched Gigabit Ethernet. Since then, some sales pitches have distorted this technology to the extent that customers are now being ...
Defining your directory.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Defining an enterprise directory name structure is one of the most important and complex network architecture decisions a company can make. Usability, performance, security, and administration factors must all be considered. Stability is an important factor in each of these considerations, ...
Novell messaging.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... In a recent press release Novell highlights that more than 400 products now leverage the network management and security infrastructure provided by NDS. To whip up developer interest in NDS Novell is holding a Developer Contest with prizes. For the best commercial applications Novell will ...
Frame relay joins the Internet.(MCI WorldCom service)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... A compelling frame relay development out of Networld+Interop in Atlanta was MCI/WorldCom's announcement of a frame relay-to-Internet gateway service. The service-when it becomes available in January 1999-will potentially allow tried-and-true frame relay customers to extend the reach of ...
Visual comes through with ATM management.(Visual Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... As we predicted would soon happen back in our September 7 column, Visual Networks, Inc. has announced an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) WAN service management system for customers. By virtue of the company's Visual UpTime product, Version 5.0, customers will be able to manage the network ...
Water Cooler: Bridging a communications chasm.
Nov 02, 1998; ... For the past year, I have been traveling around the country attending trade shows and network engineering conferences. Each stop was making it painfully apparent that a divide exists between how reporters and network engineers apply technology to their everyday lives. Network ...
Frank Moss and Steve Papermaster.(Agillion, Inc. )(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Frank Moss, one-time CEO of Tivoli, grew that firm, took it public and ultimately sold it to IBM for $743 million. Shortly after he resigned, Moss launched a venture capital company, Strategic Software Ventures LLC, and a software firm, Bow Street Software. Now he's at it again, starting ...
Vignette.(IBM's Internet access security service)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 02, 1998 ... IBM has added a suite of intrusion-detection services based on tools from Internet Security Systems and other companies. For $27,500 per year, IBM will analyze an organization's host and Internet access security, and install hardware on a customer's premises to monitor for vulnerabilities ....
Can the Web be managed?(Industry Trend or Event)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Call it an expectation gap. There's a big difference between what users think they can manage via the World Wide Web and what they actually can. "People think Web management tools are further along than they are because Web development tools are so far along," says ...
Open Port.(Y2K, Slamming)(Government Activity)
Nov 02, 1998 ... As expected, President Clinton has signed the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act. The law protects carriers from being sued for most statements they make about Year 2000 compliance. Users, trade groups and the Federal Communications Commission have complained that carriers ...
Keeping Current: Kablooie!(Satellites and meteroid showers)(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... This past summer, a rather large meteorite plummeted to earth somewhere in Greenland - becoming the target of a massive search by scientists who thought it might have come from outside the solar system. IT managers might do well to ponder the impact - because next month, a whole ...
More reader questions.
Nov 02, 1998; ... T.W. writes: The former president of T.W.'s current employer left to start another company. The departing president agreed not to recruit from his old company. T.W. recently received a call from the former president asking him "who do you know?" for a position that matches ...
Conduct a career audit.(Tutorial)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Conducting an audit of your career may seem like an unusual concept. Audits are generally reserved for a review of well-defined processes against a set of standards. Under even the best of circumstances that definition hardly fits the concept of a career; careers are much more fluid and ...
Problems installing an NT service pack.(Product Support)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Microsoft announced the availability of Service Pack 4 for Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0. Service Pack 4 provides a single source for all Windows NT updates, and feature enhancements including Year 2000 compliance, improved reliability and manageability, and font ...
XML: The language of the World Wide Web.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Fostering Web application development is the goal behind Extensible Markup Language. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is poised to become the technology of choice for corporations conducting business-to-business commerce via the Internet. XML is founded on the ...
Alaska DMV goes online.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Administration picks distributed-object technology for bridging DMV Web server and mainframe. The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles is warming the hearts of residents with a Web site from which they can renew their car registrations and select, order and pay for vanity plates. ...
Is there a 'Net QoS standards standoff?(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Atlanta Are two Internet Engineering Task Force working groups advancing at cross purposes with regard to quality of service (QoS)? A debate has arisen about whether the IETF's Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Differentiated Services (Diff-Serv) efforts are ...
Killing a gnat with a machine gun.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... A lot of things have changed recently at AT&T, but the carrier's old habit of using massive legal and PR overkill to solve a public-policy problem is once more on display in the Washington, D.C. area. AT&T's weapon? The telecom industry's old favorite standby: the phony user ...
Microsoft: We were set up.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Washington, D.C. - Microsoft suggested during the software giant's antitrust trial yesterday that a 1995 meeting with Netscape was a "setup," orchestrated to lobby the U.S. federal government to intervene and prevent Microsoft from competing with Netscape. The June 21, 1995, ...
New Internet body elects interim board.(Company Operations)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Dyson among new members. New York - A new non-profit Internet governing body yesterday announced the creation of its board of directors whose leaders say they will begin negotiations soon to address criticisms of the organization's structure and guidelines. Board ...
AT&T profits soar.(Company Financial Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... AT&T yesterday announced third quarter net income of $1.96 billion, or $1.09 a share, an increase of 68% over the same period in 1997. Excluding the extraordinary gains from a pension settlement and merger-related expenses, as well as a loss associated with debt obligations, ...
Microsoft thin-client seminars.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... If you have any interest in thin-client computing, but aren't sure how it works or if it's for your enterprise, Microsoft has just launched three new on-line seminars aimed at helping you learn more and make the right decision. As a bonus, if you still have questions after ...
CIM: Net management's best kept secret.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... It's not something a network manager is likely to see directly, but Common Information Model (CIM) technology has the potential to improve the way networks and systems are managed. CIM defines a way to represent and exchange management data collected from any source, be it a ...
New UUNET service lowers ATM entry price.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Fairfax, Va. UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company, is offering customers an alternative to its high-priced, high-bandwidth Internet access services. The ISP is rolling out its ATM T-3 Internet access service, which will let business users connect to the 'Net at multimegabit ...
Shiva.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Shiva recently introduced a scaled down version of its hardware for building virtual private networks (VPN) across Internet connections. The LanRover VPN Express supports 50 simultaneous remote users calling in via the Internet. Designed for branch offices or small businesses, the box ...
Multi-Tech.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Multi-Tech recently announced MultiVOIP, a voice-over-IP gateway for remote offices. The point-to-point device is designed to cut phone costs between offices connected by a data link by running voice over the same line. ...
IBM.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 02, 1998 ... IBM last week announced the availability of network interface cards for its 3746 Multi Access Enclosure (MAE) that will let users link the controller with older mainframes ...
Bad card snags NYSEnet.(Company Operations)
Nov 02, 1998; ... New York A network outage at the New York Stock Exchange last Monday interrupted trading for an hour. The culprit proved to be a malfunctioning router line card used to connect Tandem mainframes to Hewlett-Packard servers, says Bill Bautz, chief technology officer at ...
Time to pay attention to CIM and XML.(Technology Information)
Nov 02, 1998; ... One of the consistent industry themes over the past few years has been user disappointment and frustration with the functionalism and integration of system and network management products. There are many causes for this disappointment and frustration, but one in particular has been the ...
Ascend moves into Web-based support services.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... A recent announcement from Ascend Communications offers users a glimpse into how support services will be delivered in the future. The significance of this announcement is that it comes from a vendor who is far better known for its core competency in high density, high performance backbone ...
Faulty router downs NYSE.(Company Operations)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Knocks out trading for an hour Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was interrupted for an hour yesterday due to a router outage. The outage occurred in router line card that connects Tandem mainframes to Hewlett-Packard servers, said Bill Bautz, chief technology ...
AT&T ATM: Not just transport anymore.
Nov 02, 1998; ... Carrier includes Visual Networks' performance monitoring as part of ATM service. Atlanta If sometime in the future carriers no longer offer any straight, stand-alone transport services, mark the recent NetWorld+Interop 98 show as the turning point. At the ...
Lucent says hello to the 'unPBX'.(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998; ... PBX war horse unveils its first Windows NT call server. Atlanta You don't have to go to a start-up anymore to buy a PBX replacement system that runs on a Windows NT server. At the recent NetWorld+Interop 98 show here, veteran PBX war horse Lucent jumped ...
Schmidt: Laser-like focus on boosting NDS.(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Novell CEO discusses future of directories, network applications and industry competition. Most news coming out of Novell these days concerns the company's Novell Directory Services (NDS). CEO Eric Schmidt recently sat down with Network World Editor John Dix, Features Editor ...
SBC boosts IP service with Concentric deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... If you're an SBC Communications customer, you'll soon be getting more direct access to the Internet thanks to a deal between the mega-local exchange carrier and Concentric Network. SBC and Concentric Network late last month announced a contract where SBC will become a 4% owner ...
Sprint says `No way' to service outages.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998 ... New SLAs include availability guarantees as high as 100%. Sprint today introduced a broad range of service-level agreements (SLA) that basically forbid any outages for customers lucky enough to obtain an end-to-end synchronous optical network (SONET) connection. The ...
A sermon on Linux: Part 2.(Linux operating system)(Technology Information)(Column)
Nov 02, 1998 ... Welcome back to the second part of my sermon. Here at the First and Last Church of Networking, we welcome all who seek truth, enlightenment and a good old sing-along. First, an announcement: Our highly unscientific poll of Network World readers regarding the question, "Should ...
Cabletron.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Cabletron Systems will let its enterprise customers dictate the company's move into the service provider market, said Cabletron CEO Craig Benson. As users augment their enterprise network with public data services, they will pull Cabletron into deals with service providers and ...
Software syncs short-term jobs, workers.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Hermosa Beach, Calif. The past decade has seen a dramatic shift in employment patterns in the U.S., as more corporations have opted for short-term contract workers. Nowhere is the trend toward temporary employees more noticeable than in the high-tech industry, which ...
Network Help Desk.
Nov 02, 1998; ... Ron Nutter, a Master Certified Novell Engineer and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in the Lexington, Ky., area, tracks down the answers to your questions. Call (800) 622-1108, Ext. 7476, or send your questions to helpdesk@networkref.com. I have just taken over as ...
Web site e-mail products maturing.(Product Announcement)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Brightware's, Aptex's latest offerings boast routing, queuing and other capabilities. As the amount of e-mail generated by corporate Web sites continues to balloon, so do the prospects of companies selling software to manage this message onslaught. Two of these ...
How We Did It.
Nov 02, 1998 ... We installed VitalAnalysis and VitalHelp on a Dell Optiplex 400-MHz Pentium II with 128M bytes of memory and 8G bytes of disk space running Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 3 and the NTFS file system. The VitalAgent client was deployed on nine workstations, ranging from a 266-MHz IBM Thinkpad ...
Is Web standardization a joke?(the Web Standards Project web site)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
Nov 02, 1998; ... You know the old joke: Standards are great - that's why we have so many of them. Unless you're really lucky, chances are you've run smack into the problems caused by the differing ways Microsoft and Netscape browsers work. Whether it's tables painting on the screen differently ...
DSL.Lite on trial in Oregon.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Portland, Ore. -- GTE has leapt into a trail of easy to install digital subscriber line (DSL) technology. Following the announcement last week that an international standard for the easy-install DSL, known as DSL.Lite has been formalized, GTE said they have been conducting a ...
net buzz.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998 ... SO MANY ONLINE AUCTIONS, SO LITTLE TIME You're in the market for a new cell phone, say, or a digital camera, or maybe a used Scud missile. You don't have time to scour the classified ads in the local newspaper or Soldier of Fortune, so you decide to try your luck at one of the many auction ...
Firing up a Frame Relay Showdown for ComNet.
Nov 02, 1998; ... If you missed our ISP Showdown at Internet World in New York or the Layer 3 Switching Showdown at NetWorld+ Interop in Atlanta, you lost out on the chance to see some of the industry's top executives spar over strategy and products. Both debates crackled with competitive tension, and they ...
Web Standards.(Product Development)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Netscape to support standards in next browser Netscape's decision to release a standards-compliant browser marks a victory for a group trying to convince browser vendors to stop compartmentalizing the Web in an increasingly large series of proprietary tags and specifications. ...
Ellison pushes ERP.(Product Development)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Honolulu - Oracle Corp.'s CEO, Larry Ellison, likes to talk about hamburgers when he explains the ''insanity'' of client/server computing. ''Burger King wants to put a database in every hamburger stand,'' an irate Ellison said. ''A database in every hamburger stand just to get ...
MS/DOJ: MS Market Share Key, AOL Says.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 02, 1998; ... Washington - Under intense cross-examination today, an executive of America Online Inc. insisted that the key reason his company chose to incorporate Microsoft Corp.'s Internet browser technology instead of Netscape Communications Corp.'s product was because Microsoft offered to place AOL ...
Clinton signs digital copyright bill.(Government Activity)
Nov 02, 1998; ... President Bill Clinton yesterday signed into law a bill designed to protect software, movies, music and other copyrighted material from the increased threat of piracy posed by advances in digital technology. The bill is called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It is based on ...