------------------------------------------------------------ UniNews The Biweekly Newsletter For UniForum Members ------------------------------------------------------------ Issue Date: April 20, 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------ UniNews is written and published by UniForum's publications department. For information on articles in this issue or to contribute news to future issues, contact Don Dugdale at don@uniforum.org or (408) 986-8840, ext. 29, or (800) 255-5620 ext. 29. Copyright 1994 by UniForum. All rights reserved. Annual Subscriptions: free to UniForum members; $60 to non-members. Overseas orders: add $30. UNIX is a registered trademark, licensed exclusively by X/Open Co. Ltd. UniForum is a trademark of UniForum. Printed in USA. UniNews (ISSN 1069-0395) is published biweekly for $12 per year (membership dues) by UniForum, 2901 Tasman Dr., Suite 205, Santa Clara, CA 95054. UniNews is presented in ASCII format. It is also available in PostScript by accessing the UniForum World Wide Web Server. Point your WWW client to http://www.uniforum.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents: o New OSF Brings Industry Together o Get UniNews in Your Electronic Mailbox o Ritchie Says He's Proud of UNIX o Grove Pleads for Multivendor OS o UniForum '94 Exhibitors Speak Out o At UniForum '94: The Winners Are ... o UniNews Recruitment o Get More Bang For Your Buck (UniForum Advertisement) o Get 'Em While They Last!! (UniForum Advertisement) o Board Nominees Announced o Publications, Conferences, Discounts and More ------------------------------------------------------------ New OSF Brings Industry Together -------------------------------- 16 companies combine in UNIX unification move The leading companies of the UNIX industry took another big step at UniForum '94 toward the unified UNIX specification process that users and vendors alike agree would be best for the future of open systems. Sixteen companies, including sponsors of the Open Software Foundation (OSF) and the former UNIX International, joined forces in a newly streamlined and reorganized OSF that will also incorporate the process known for the past year as the Common Open Software Environment (COSE). OSF left the door open for changing its own name in the near future. "As individual systems vendors, we will still compete with each other in the marketplace," said OSF Chairman Dennis Roberson. "But we are together in this effort as an industry - an industry united as never before." It was the biggest news of UniForum '94 and came one year after the announcement by the major UNIX workstation vendors - at UniForum '93 - that they would unify under COSE and begin developing a common UNIX user interface - the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). Keynote speaker Andy Grove, president and CEO of Intel Corp., quipped that UniForum should have shows more often because, in UNIX unification efforts, "Ninety percent of the work each year gets done two weeks before UniForum." OSF will now oversee CDE and use the COSE development process as the pattern for its own programs, under a new development model it calls PST - Pre-Structured Technology. In the PST process, sponsoring companies will take the initiative in proposing a complete development package, including the requirements and a proposed solution. PST, said OSF President David Tory, "incorporates the best of the COSE model and formalizes it within the OSF infrastructure - essentially giving it a solid organizational foundation and a framework in which to operate." Most of OSF's existing projects will be converted from OSF's old Request for Technology (RFT) process to PST, but OSF special interest groups and other forums can continue to initiate RFT projects. Both kinds of projects will be managed and funded on a per-project basis by sponsoring companies, which means that projects will be multi-company development initiatives that are separately funded and individually managed. The theory is that more projects can thus be initiated and managed concurrently since engineering will not depend on in-house OSF resources Clearly, the OSF sponsors believe PST will help focus energy on the projects to get products into the market faster and avoid bureaucratic delays. In addition, by focusing the technology development effort in sponsoring companies rather than relying on it own staff, OSF plans to cut its costs and reduce staffing by one-third to one-half. Mike DeFazio, senior vice president of Novell and head of Novell's UNIX Systems Group (formerly USL), said, "This new per-project, shared funding model reduces up-front development costs, which lets vendors address more technology areas in a shorter span of time. Plus, it enables much more tightly focused development efforts, which can individually address very specific customer requirements." The sponsoring companies, each with a representative at the announcement, are AT&T Global Information Solutions (formerly NCR), Bull Information Systems, Digital Equipment Corp., Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, ICL, Novell, NEC, Olivetti, Silicon Graphics, Siemens-Nixdorf Information Systems, Sony, Sun Microsystems and Transarc. The OSF Board of Directors also will have at least one at-large board member, nominated by its End User Steering Committee. Joseph deFeo, chief information officer of Barclays Bank, has been appointed to that seat. End-user participation clearly is one of the main objectives of the reorganization and the incorporation of COSE, which was the subject of criticism on that score. "We're right there in the midst of it," said Ted Hanss, chair of the OSF End User Steering Committee, about the reorganized OSF. "The COSE process had no phone number and no address and no way of getting into it. We are now getting away from the anti-competition nature that COSE had." A new Architecture Planning Council will be formed, comprised of OSF staff, representatives from each sponsoring company, and a representative of the End User Steering Committee. That council's job will be to maintain a technology "vision" and review project proposals based on consistency with that vision before they are acted on by the OSF board. Adding its support to the OSF announcement was X/Open Co., which has had a major role in the CDE and Spec 1170 common UNIX API specification processes. As part of the latest reorganization, OSF will give X/Open a formal role in its own process, under which X/Open will develop open systems requirements and participate with OSF in developing a technology framework for specific projects. After technology development under OSF, X/Open will help validate the specification, oversee brand management and handle user procurement programs. After a project reaches completion through OSF, the specifications for that technology will be placed in the public domain and offered to X/Open for review, with the intent of having them accepted by X/Open as industry standards. X/Open and OSF also announced plans to send representatives to each other's board of directors. "We're cooperating in OSF more effectively," said X/Open President Geoff Morris. The first PST project will be the Common Desktop Environment, for which a letter of intent has already been signed. The transition schedule for moving existing OSF projects to the PST model is to be as follows: o The Distributed Management Environment will convert after release of its Network Management Option, due in late spring. o The OSF/1 version of UNIX will convert after release 1.3 is shipped early this summer. o The Motif graphical user interface will convert after release 2.0 is available later in the summer. o The Distributed Computing Environment will convert near the end of the year after release 1.1 becomes available. 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To receive the May 5 issue via e-mail, please send in your request by Wednesday, April 27. Requests received thereafter will go on the list for electronic mailing on the next publication date. End ------------------------------------------------------------ Ritchie Says He's Proud of UNIX ------------------------------- Bell Labs researcher also describes his Plan 9 In his keynote speech at UniForum '94, UNIX co-creator Dennis Ritchie discussed the operating system's past and present with a large, appreciative audience. Then he explained his own new operating system of the future. Ritchie, who developed UNIX with Ken Thompson at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, today is department head of computing techniques research at the same company. He said UNIX has succeeded because of its underlying model of computation, the portability that he built in, and the subsequent events that furthered UNIX's development. Expressing mild amazement at the system's success, Ritchie noted that when he and Thompson developed it in 1969, it was not intended to become more than a research project, and that, at 25, it's more than half the age of the commercial computing industry itself. "That's a long time for an operating system to last," he said. The strength of the underlying model of UNIX is its simplicity, Ritchie said, in that it relies on three basic ideas - a pre-structured file naming system, the idea of a file as just a sequence of bytes, and that devices and objects other than real files can be represented as files. "Even now, the UNIX kernel is really a simple, coherent and powerful model of computation," he asserted. About portability, Ritchie said, "From a technical point of view, the single most important thing about UNIX for users is that it does run on lots of different platforms without an awful lot of change. The fact that this works as well as it does and has survived as long as it has is the most important thing I've done in my career." Problems with UNIX However, UNIX now has built-in problems that make competition with other commercial systems difficult, Ritchie pointed out. For one, commercial UNIX is "not that simple anymore," with complex add-ons such as networks, windowing systems and graphical user interfaces. "It's really hard to see as one simple, well-defined system. It's been transported physically to a lot of different people. There's no one group that owns it." In addition, many computer users today are bored with operating systems, Ritchie said. "The whole idea of an operating system being simple and coherent is only of interest to a small number of people," he noted. "They just want to use it to run applications. They have no interest in forming a model of what really is happening inside the machine." Finally, "Software portability is not an advantage to everyone," Ritchie said. "It's an advantage to users but it's not an advantage to the manufacturers because they don't like to be in the commodity business. They want to be in the exclusives business, where only they can sell their own product and of course charge more money for it. Software openness is very valuable but users have to insist on it. They have to take the manufacturers by the neck and say, 'Do it the standard way.'" Plan 9 Describing his latest project, the Plan 9 operating system, Ritchie said it is based on two concepts used in UNIX and one new concept. The first two are that all objects are either files or file systems, and that all communication with files uses a protocol that can be made into a remote procedure call protocol. The new concept in Plan 9 is that of a name space in a process - a set of files that a process can see and talk about and that can be adjusted per process. By contrast, in UNIX on any one machine, a set of files is the same for all the processes and every process sees it the same way. In Plan 9, a universe of files can be adjusted dynamically per process. The implication of the concept is that "a lot of things turn out to be easy that were hard before," Ritchie said. As a result, "You can run a process on any machine and make it believe it is in one location even though it's here one day and there the next," he said. That has economic implications because "lots of operations become cheaper," Ritchie said. "It's cheaper to do graphics and cheaper to run a CPU server." Another advantage of Plan 9, which is not a product yet, is that it doesn't take much memory, Ritchie said - about 160K on his machine at home and 300K to 400K on RISC servers in the laboratory. The system can be run on a laptop, he said. "The notion of having a name space that depends on the process is a powerful one and a dangerous one," Ritchie said. "You really have to think about security in a different way when anybody can simulate a password file." End ------------------------------------------------------------ Grove Pleads for Multivendor OS ------------------------------- Intel CEO emphasizes need for speed in response to Windows NT UNIX system vendors should move beyond their differences and give customers a multivendor operating system if they want to fend off the threat of Microsoft's Windows NT, Intel President and CEO Andy Grove told an overflow UniForum '94 audience in the conference's opening keynote address. That advice concluded a talk in which he outlined the story behind the development and growth of personal computers, how microprocessor technology has taken over the computing industry, how UNIX has come to dominate design and manufacturing at Intel, and the capabilities UNIX servers now need to deliver for customers like Intel. Grove concluded with an analysis of the competitive landscape in the wake of last year's release of NT, a UNIX-like operating system marketed for enterprise computing. PCs have come into their own as they have become dramatically more cost-efficient, Grove noted. As the density of transistors on a silicon chip doubles every 18 months, the cost of processing power has shrunk - from about $10,000 per million instructions per second (MIPS) in 1982 to $120 per MIPS this year. Startlingly, 90 percent of the world's total computing power on the Intel architecture has been shipped in the past two years. "As a result of this incredible cost-efficiency, microprocessor-based computing grew" to the point where PC and workstation hardware sales topped mainframe and minicomputer sales in 1993, Grove pointed out. PCs and workstations accounted for 53 percent of the $104 billion worldwide hardware sales. Following IBM's announcement that microprocessors would be at the heart of its next mainframes, Grove concluded, "The Micro Revolution is over. Now microprocessors are computing." UNIX at Intel The Intel CEO said he only realized how basic UNIX had become to his company's business while researching his talk. UNIX-based networking and e-mail now pervade Intel. And UNIX servers provide the computing basis for both design engineering and manufacturing, he said. "For Intel and for many other companies, UNIX has arrived at the heart of the enterprise." In design engineering, Intel "has become one of the largest users of UNIX workstations in the world," with about 3,000 UNIX computers to be deployed by the end of 1995, Grove said. "The essential process of logic design within Intel rests upon tools that we have developed internally, hosted by UNIX." Intel's investment in manufacturing increased dramatically in 1993, including a $1 billion new factory in Ireland, with all manufacturing run by UNIX workstations and servers. About 4,000 UNIX computers are expected to be involved in manufacturing control by 1995, Grove said. UNIX Today Although UNIX has been thought of as an operating system challenging from outside the corporate castle, "Today UNIX is not a challenger," Grove said. "UNIX is inside the castle that the challenger from the outside will try to attack." And the UNIX industry's response to attack will have to come within what he called a new model of the computer industry - which is now horizontally structured with single companies providing their specialized products and services across the industry, rather than single companies providing every computing product and service for a customer. That structure promotes much faster technological progress and means that to prosper and survive attack, UNIX companies much act faster than they have in the past. In the new model, application servers have replaced mainframes as the machines at the top of the computing hierarchy, Grove said. He called the new servers standard high-volume computers. "They will end up running modern equivalents of the old enterprise applications, as well as new types of applications. In order to fill the role of the former mainframe, they need to duplicate some of their characteristics." Both the CPU and I/O must be scalable, Grove said. In addition, user companies depend on continuous application availability and must be able to manage their servers with combinations of hardware and software for fault tolerance and capacity management. "Multiprocessing, I/O and management will this time be achieved using standard solutions, supported by hundreds of vendors," Grove said. "Rather than being boutique solutions from single vendors, standard high-volume servers will be available from the numerous suppliers that make up the new horizontal computer industry." Because of the increasing capabilities of microprocessors, on-chip consistent interfaces for multiprocessing will become commonplace, Intel's CEO said. Therefore, standard shrink-wrapped operating systems will be able to use and rely on such standard multiprocessing. "And so we have only one further requirement," he said. "We need a shrink-wrapped, enterprise operating system." Intel's vice president of information technology, Carlene Ellis, called in by Grove via modem from her office in Fullerton, CA, on a projected PC screen, listed her requirements for the UNIX server of 1994-95. The number one requirement is nonstop operation, 24 hours by seven days by 52 weeks a year, Ellis said. That includes intelligent handling of errors as well as fault isolation and facilities like built-in checkpoint restart. Other requirements for her system are standard tools for configuration management and a hierarchical storage management solution with automatic intelligent backup. Finally, she said, users "need cross-vendor, unified solutions. Not kind-of cross vendor but across all vendors, we need these capabilities." Commenting on beta installations of Windows NT, Ellis said she's "very impressed, particularly with the ability to scale NT with superservers and application servers." And NT has a further advantage - "We have one set of people who control the code and one set of people listening to us." But, she noted, "Windows NT is new and until it works for us, it doesn't work." The Two Threats Grove concluded by outlining what he considers the two threats to UNIX: first, that the industry will split apart because of three or four companies each developing and exploiting their own "proprietary UNIX." And second, Windows NT. With the major UNIX versions, "The danger from a user perspective is that over time, these products will indeed become very robust and enterprise-worthy, but increasingly incompatible as each supplier seeks to add value by differentiating," Grove said. "Interoperability standards will partially work, but over time, the long-held UNIX dream of a standard portable operating system will become meaningless as the commonality is dwarfed by the differences." Windows NT's threat comes primarily from its built-in compatibility with Windows and its operability on multiple platforms, Grove said. The variety of UNIX most widely distributed on multiple platforms is SCO UNIX, which operates on about 375 platforms, Grove noted. SunSoft's Solaris operates on about 35 platforms. But Windows NT, "after just 12 months, has an approved systems list running to 1,700 different systems," he pointed out. To answer that threat, "Coexistence and interoperability with Windows is crucial. The imperative is to coexist with the tens of millions of Windows computers installed worldwide and move to where the value needs to be added, which is upward." But he emphasized the need for speed. "The pace has changed dramatically in the last 12 months, and UNIX faces a focused competitor who needs to spend very little time in committee meetings. The UNIX community must respond by picking up its own pace, or bit by bit, in the same gradual way that it ascended to the throne, it will fade, split and be replaced at the center of the castle." Grove concluded, "Consolidation is crucial, for UNIX vendors, rather than splitting. My plea as a customer is for you to set aside your differences and deliver a multivendor, enterprise-capable operating system that will ensure that our investment in UNIX has a life." End ------------------------------------------------------------ UniForum '94 Exhibitors Speak Out --------------------------------- Exhibitors at UniForum '94 felt they got what they came for, according to an informal on-the-floor sampling of opinion taken on the exhibition's final day. Francesco Paola, senior consultant with JYACC, a software tools vendor in New York City, said, "The presentation area was full most of the time. We had more leads in the first day here than we had all of last year. And the level of people we talked to was more technical." Dale Hempel, channel marketing representative with Distributed Processing Technology of Maitland, FL, spent his time at the show discussing the company's SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) controller cards and storage management software with potential customers. DPT is a technology partner with The Santa Cruz Operation and has its technology built into SCO's operating system products. "SCSI is now coming of age," Hempel said. "You have a lot of devices that you can put on SCSI." His company comes to UniForum every year and plans to be back next year. "We really like UniForum," he said. Joseph Burns, vendor relations consultant with Candle Corp., a systems management software company in Santa Monica, CA, represented his company at its first UniForum show. Candle, which had previously marketed systems and performance management products for mainframes, is now developing an open systems product." I met a lot of people who weren't mainframe-centric at all," Burns said. "They understand the stability of our company. There was a good mix of customers from the enterprise management level and the UNIX level as well. This is a big show for us and we're going to Dallas [for UniForum '95]," he said. Kenneth Jeras, registered technical manager for software development tools vendor Cincom of Cincinnati, OH, described his UniForum experience as "pretty positive." He said that at this year's show, the third he has attended, he saw more system managers who "want to put the pieces of the puzzle together" and integrate the various components of an open systems solution. His own purpose was "to get an idea of what's going on in the open systems area, and what competition there is out there for our products." From what he saw this year, UNIX products now seem to be more affordable, Jeras said, especially for what he called "the mid-level buyer." End ------------------------------------------------------------ At UniForum '94: The Winners Are ... ------------------------------------ The 1994 UniForum Conference was the perfect opportunity to recognize the winners of recent UniForum promotions. The winner of the drawing for the laptop computer from Acer America Corp. for the UniForum Member-Get-A-Member Contest was Otto Hutter from Hungary. Mr. Hutter manages an Open Systems Training Center in Budapest and is also a free-lance journalist with several Hungarian publications, newsletters and books. He has used UNIX for 10 years and has been a member of UniForum since 1991. Mr. Hutter recruited new members to UniForum during the 1993-94 promotion and his name was picked in a random drawing at the conclusion of the contest on Feb. 28, 1994. He was presented the laptop at the 1994 Conference. The grand prize winner of UniForum's Member-Get-A-Member Contest was Randall Shockley. Mr. Shockley is president of Micro Zeit, Inc., a micro-to-mainframe open systems consulting and training company based in Washington, DC. He has used UNIX for 14 years and has been a UniForum member since 1990. Mr. Shockley won an all-expense-paid trip to the UniForum Show and Conference, as well as free conference registration, for recruiting the most members during the promotion. The winnner of the "Road To Open Systems" promotion was Allen Jeng. Mr. Jeng visited UniForum corporate sponsors' booths at the UniForum Trade Show March 23 through 25 and had them stamp his special "Road Map" promotion card. His completed card was drawn at the conclusion of the show on Friday, March 25, by Richard Jaross, Executive Director of the UniForum Association. Mr. Jeng also won a laptop computer from Acer America Corp. He is a busy person. Not only is he a full-time student at Golden Gate University, where he hopes to receive his M.S. in Telecommunications Management at the end of this summer, but he interns for for GeneSys, Inc., of San Bruno, CA, on its network management staff. He also has his own computer consulting and system administration business. He will be looking for a permanent full-time position after graduation. He reports that the laptop is already a big help in both his studies and his business. Congratulations to all our winners! 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