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Point your WWW client to http://www.uniforum.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents: o Pervasive Computing-Novell's End-of-Decade Dream o Open Systems Use Increases o UniForum '95 Keynote-Whom Would You Invite? o UniForum '95 Plenary To Examine New Ways of Computing o When it comes to Open Computing...UniForum '95 o David Smith-IDC UNIX Analyst o Affiliate News o UniNews Recruitment & Positions Wanted o Open Systems Industry Hiring Professionals Know... **Ad** o OEM Sales - Publishing **Ad** o Tell Your Colleagues About ... o UniForum Member Benefits ------------------------------------------------------------ Pervasive Computing-Novell's End-of-Decade Dream ------------------------------------------------- Executives describe a world of one billion network users Pervasive computing is being touted as a concept for the future by Novell Inc. as it strives to remain the king of network software in a world of a billion computer users. Novell's strategy was presented by Robert Frankenberg, the Provo, UT, company's new president, CEO, and chairman, during the NetWorld+InterOp show in Atlanta, and reiterated last week before the Software Entrepreneurs' Forum in Palo Alto, CA, by Joe Firmage, vice president of engineering in Novell's AppWare Systems Group. "We are going to connect people to other people and to the information they need, and allow them to use it any time they want," said Firmage, describing Novell's vision of the future. "The changes of the next five to seven years will be far greater than those of the last 10," he said. He predicted the figure of one billion users-one in five persons on earth-would probably come true by the end of this decade. But the users he has in mind will be users of networked fax machines, copiers, personal digital assistants, cash registers, and even TV set-top boxes-not just personal computers. Frankenberg said Novell will be focusing on its core networking infrastructure business, led by NetWare, its network operating system, and UNIX. And, in a major move toward standardizing networking protocol, Frankenberg said Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) will be included as a core protocol in NetWare servers in 1995. Until now, NetWare has employed only its proprietary SPX/IPX protocol. In addition, the Novell executives said UNIXWare, the desktop product that until now has been considered an operating system, will be positioned as an application server environment. Novell will de-emphasize forays into desktop operating system products. And the company plans to work in five general IT areas: shared devices, shared information, corporate data processing, personal and corporate communications, and public networks. Novell's five key "initiatives for pervasive computing" include: o Super NOS, a technology for building a distributed computing platform from modular components and computers, managed and administered as one fault-tolerant distributed computer. This would allow traditional file and print servers, as well as PBX telephony servers and application servers, to be administered as one. o An embedded networks initiative, underway since last year, to inexpensively extend the network to office peripherals such as intelligent phones, TV set-top devices, and personal digital assistants. o Advanced client services-comprising a new user interface and client application programming interface set-to be brought to market in 1995. It would provide a graphical interface on a PC that allows users to reach destinations outside the PC. The "net top," as Firmage described it, will reside on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh desktops while enabling users to browse NetWare data services, the Internet, and AT&T's NetWare Connect Services networks. o NetWare Connect Services, through which Novell would provide secure interpersonal and business-to-business communications through telecommunications partners that include AT&T, regional Bell companies, and international companies. o Consumer software products, built around the product lines acquired through acquisition of WordPerfect earlier this year. Even through networking is widespread today, networks are still too difficult to use, Firmage said, and the infrastructure is not complete. Novell's goal is to make network access available nearly everywhere, from many kinds of devices, and to give almost anyone access to them through use of a plastic card. The card would contain a microchip with authentication to network services. Users would activate the card by swiping it through a card reader and entering a universally-accepted personal password. "What we will do five years from now is provide on-line connection to everything outside your PC," Firmage said, from places like airplanes and hotels as well as at home and in the office. In effect, what Novell is talking about is the concept sometimes known as ubiquitous computing. "You'll have one password to access any information you wish," Firmage continued. "The Novell directory service is crucial to accomplishing this." As well as being available everywhere, the networks will have to be robust. "We will know we have arrived at success when the network is as accessible as electricity-when you notice the absence of a network as you notice the absence of a wall socket now." End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ Open Systems Use Increases --------------------------- Survey says IT spending will be 25 percent open by 1997 Open systems continue to account for an increasing percentage of the world's information technology market, according to findings in a worldwide user survey by X/Open Co. Complete results of the Xtra '94 survey were released last week. Conducted in more than 40 countries and in eight languages, X/Open's fourth worldwide survey anticipates that open systems will account for more than 25 percent of IT spending by 1997, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.1 percent, almost three times the rate forecast for proprietary systems, including desktop systems. Among the organizations included in the survey that are currently using open systems, the anticipated growth in open systems spending averages more than 30 percent annually. The total growth in IT spending between 1994 and 1997 is expected to be 17.8 percent. The survey also reveals a growing momentum in the demand for open systems products. In 1991, 68 percent of responding organizations were using open systems, and an additional 20 percent indicated they would be future users. Three years later, that indicator holds up. Eighty-two percent of the organizations surveyed this year now use open systems, and the figure is expected to rise to 96 percent by 1997. In 1991, the leading users of open systems were European organizations, of which 84 percent responded as current users, while Japanese organizations lagged with 47 percent responding as users. Responses this year show 91 percent of European organizations and 65 percent of Japanese ones now use open systems. In Japan, 91 percent expect to be users of open systems by 1997. An increasing confidence and reliance on standards is also reflected in the survey. The key business objectives and processes listed by respondents in the survey include: o Improve customer focus and service, leading the business agenda for 83 percent of the organizations in the survey. This takes priority over improve operational efficiency, last year's number one choice. Improve innovation and development took a strong third. Among Japanese organizations, improve innovation and development was higher in relative importance than in the other regions. o The business processes surveyed were led by sales and marketing. But infrastructure management moved from a low-level concern last year to become the second most important process in the survey. Portable operating systems, client/ser-ver applications, and system and network security were the top three systems technologies that surveyed organizations deemed important in supporting business functions-each indicated by more than 75 percent of respondents. The top five growth technologies, measured by the number of organizations that expect to begin using them by 1997, include integrated systems management tools, distributed database management tools, integrated network management tools, distributed databases, and distributed computing tools. Multimedia applications fall just outside that group, in sixth place, but show the strongest spending growth potential. Nearly two-thirds of the surveyed organizations expect to increase spending on multimedia applications by an average of 43 percent over the next three years. On the desktop, Microsoft products show the strongest penetration potential between 1994 and 1997. Those were followed closely by the UNIX Common Desktop Environment. UNIX currently dominates the operating systems in use by surveyed organizations. End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ UniForum '95 Keynote-Whom Would You Invite? -------------------------------------------- Each day at UniForum '95, March 14-16, 1995, at the Dallas Convention Center, attendees will hear a major keynote address. These important sessions often serve to announce major industry initiatives or act as platforms for ideas and opinions that can affect how we think, feel, and act. Last year, for instance, Intel CEO Andy Grove galvanized the industry with his clarion call to the UNIX community to "get its house organized." What will you hear at this year's UniForum keynote sessions? As previously announced, Ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics, Inc., will be one keynoter, and the second slot is just about booked and will be announced soon. End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ UniForum '95 Plenary To Examine New Ways of Computing ------------------------------------------------------ Experts will be steered away from the same old issues The future of open systems is a topic that's been explored many times. But at UniForum '95, moderator Alan Paller plans a new approach. "In prior years, what the experts focused on was the future of UNIX-UNIX vs. Microsoft Windows NT, the future of workgroup computing, OSF vs. X/Open, and that kind of thing," Paller says "That's just too short-term and those are the topics that everyone has an opinion on. We want to open up people's minds to ways of computing that they hadn't thought about, so they will go out of the room saying, 'I hadn't thought about that, but I'm going to explore that because it might be a future for me.'" The plenary, "Experts Predict the Future of Open Systems," is scheduled for Wednesday, March 15, the second day of the main conference, to be held in Dallas, TX. Paller, director of open systems for Computer Associates International, Islandia, NY, says the names of the panel members have not been announced, but the invitation list includes those he classifies as visionaries rather than heads of large corporations. "I don't think we care what the presidents are willing to say publicly," Paller says. "I think we care what they think the future is, but vendors can't tell people what the future is because they'll stop buying the present." In addition to the panel members on stage, the session will feature video clips of those who have things to say but couldn't attend the conference, Paller says. Then the panel members will have a chance to comment on the taped comments. Paller says the discussion will focus on "open systems with a lowercase O and a lowercase S. I think lowercase open systems is what we all mean by computing in the future, where computers interact smoothly with all other computers and all networks fit together. So I think the future of open systems is the future of computing and information systems. We don't have to limit ourselves to the narrow side of open systems." The definition of open systems that Paller likes is "information systems that allow people to get the information they need when they need it." The discussion will be technology-based, not philosophical, with questions on communications bandwidth, content-based computing, multimedia, the national information infrastructure, massively parallel systems and others. "We're trying to put all the buzzwords people hear about in context," Paller says. "We'll say what happens when substantially all books are available on-line. When does that happen, what makes it happen, how does it affect the industry, and how does it affect users? These are all things that you've heard about, but you just heard them as throwaway lines. What this panel will do is say what that means." In general, Paller hopes the panel members will be "people who are shaping the next generation of technology, deciding what life will be like in the connected society. We're going to try to take people beyond the current constraints, meaning that we're not looking for linear extensions of what they've already seen. How will technologies impact people, how will that change business, and what will the new technologies be? What are people building now that are going to be available in four or five years that will alter the way we live our lives, and what will the alteration be?" End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ When it comes to Open Computing...UniForum '95 ----------------------------------------------- When it comes to Open Computing, the solution is... UniForum '95 *** The official conference and exposition for Open Computing Solutions March 14-16, 1995 Dallas Convention Center Dallas, Texas Register by fax! Call 617-449-5554, enter Code 70 and have your fax number ready - we'll fax back your registration form within 24 hours! NEW UniForum on-line ... for the lastest information! Internet World Wide Web URL:http://www.uniforum.org Now managed by The Interface Group, the producer of Comdex¨. End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ David Smith-IDC UNIX Analyst ----------------------------- Excitement of UniForum show drew him to open systems Name: David Smith Age: 34 Place of Birth: Boston, MA Position: Co-director of Worldwide Software Research, International Data Corp. (IDC) Time in Current Position: 1 month (3 years at IDC) Years in the Industry: 14 Car He Drives: 1993 Honda Accord Reading Habits: "I tend to read magazines and newspapers and short things. The books I read are computer industry-oriented books." Pet Open Systems Peeve: "Too many people calling me up asking me to define it." At 34, David Smith is already one of the industry's most widely quoted and trusted UNIX analysts. Since joining the technology research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) in Framingham, MA, three years ago as a research director, he has moved to director of the company's UNIX research program and then, a month ago, to co-director of worldwide software research. It's a job Smith likes and plans to keep. "I spend a lot of time finding out what vendors are up to, trying to put two and two together to see if it adds up to four, and if it doesn't, flagging it and trying to figure out why," Smith says. "I do a lot more strategy and technology consulting than quantitative analysis. I do a lot of analysis about whether what one vendor tells me jibes with what another vendor tells me. I try to figure out their strategy." Since his most recent promotion, he's had to spend more time as a manager. "Unfortunately, it isn't nearly as much fun as being an analyst," he notes. Smith grew up in the Boston area and received his B.A. from Clark University in Worcester, MA, in applied mathematics. After receiving his introduction to computers at Clark, he went on to Boston University, where he earned his master's in computer engineering. "What got me interested in computers was probably the vast power that seemed to be behind the glass wall, that I was able to use to do things that were quite a bunch of drudgery otherwise," he says. "I was in the sciences and math and saw that computers could help solve things." But his first computer experience didn't get his blood flowing. "I was using punch cards in a Fortran programming class and I disliked it so much that I didn't go near a computer again for at least two years-until they had interactive terminals," he remembers. "Then the interaction was the thing that really got me interested. You could sit down at a terminal, type commands and get a response back immediately and not worry about the operators and the punch cards and the delay. It was quite an enjoyable experience." Smith's first experience with UNIX came in graduate school when he was taking an operating system class. "The first versions of Berkeley UNIX were starting to be made available to universities," he recalls. "At BU it was the system of choice because the alternative was an IBM mainframe. UNIX really became the system of choice for me quite quickly." After college, Smith worked for a time as a programmer for a small time-sharing organization in Boston. Then he joined Digital Equipment Corp., a move that helped define his career. "I wanted to work at DEC and no other place," he says. "I lived near there and had worked with their equipment. It was the place to be, and it was an incredibly great environment to work in for a long time. Actually, my first operating system experience was not with UNIX but with a DEC operating system. I saw a lot of similarities once I got exposed to UNIX a couple of years later." Smith stayed at DEC for eight years, where he was an applications engineer, worked in technical support, field support, marketing and then competitive analysis. It was in his job as a technical support person-in some cases converting software from one vendor's equipment to another's-that he attended his first UniForum trade show, an event that he remembers as triggering his concentration on UNIX. "It was in 1985 in Dallas," Smith recalls, "right around the time Sun introduced NFS [Network File System]." Sun implemented NFS in 1984, allowing different systems to share files with each other. "I think I started to realize the movement that UNIX was going to have and the impact that it was going to have on the industry. That's when I decided I really wanted to learn a lot about it and be part of that movement. It was the exposure to the excitement in the industry-and not just the technical power but the marketing potential, the opportunities for myself and for vendors, and what it could really do for users. NFS was a very exciting technology, and when I saw that, I instantly knew that it was going to be a huge success. It was then that I really decided I wanted to pursue UNIX in a great way." From that point on, Smith began campaigning for UNIX at DEC, with only partial success. "I focused on it when I had opportunities and I became very much a part of the internal UNIX community," he says. "I worked a lot back in those days to get people to say the "U word" at Digital. It had its moments of difficulty and it had its moments of great satisfaction, because for some time, Digital did make some progress with UNIX. It had to do with getting some people to see the light on the advantages of open systems, because there were a lot of people at Digital at the time who didn't get it. And I tried to open the eyes of a lot of people to the benefits of it." In addition, Smith worked for the adoption of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) standard over the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking protocol. "I think in a lot of ways Digital doesn't get enough credit for their stance on open systems." Smith says. "If you think about some of the things they were saying in the '80s about open systems not being UNIX and about it being about standard interfaces and interoperability, those are a lot of things that the rest of the industry has come around to believe. What they were not very good at is communicating open systems, marketing it, and positioning it. That's unfortunate because I think they had a lot of the right ideas and they always had very technically elegant products." He adds, "DEC gave me a great opportunity to learn the industry and to learn technology. It's a real shame to see what's happening to them now." It was as a competitive analyst at DEC that Smith realized he wanted to take a new career direction. "It's a real eye-opening position," he says. "It allows you to look at your product and your competition's products objectively. It allows you to look at where you're doing well and where you're not. It just generally opens your eyes to the business world much more. When you're a competitive analyst at a company, you look at information with basically two goals. When you're selling products, you want to say how great they are, even though they might not be, and when you're telling the engineers to build better products, you're telling them how bad the products are, no matter whether they are or not." Because of the experience, "I really got excited about looking at what's going on in the industry and doing technology analysis-being an independent analyst. It always looked like a really fun job." After two years as a competitive analyst for DEC, he moved to IDC. Smith finds his biggest joys in operating system analysis. "I really get into operating system technology-the features, the competitive environment, shrink-wrapped operating systems, the Windows NT vs. UNIX debate, standardization, and unification." About NT, Microsoft's distributed operating system introduced last year, Smith has a caution for UNIX vendors. "Sometimes the UNIX vendors are a little complacent in looking at the risk posed by NT and Microsoft in general," he warns. "Just because NT didn't take off the way a lot of people predicted doesn't mean that it's dead. It tends to be the same people who predicted that it would take over the world who are now saying that it's dead. And I think that in both cases, they're wrong. NT was never in a position to take over the world a year and a half ago when everybody was predicting it. And it's also not in a position to just give up and die right now. I think it's going to be around for awhile and I think it's going to give UNIX a run for its money over the long term." UNIX unification is going in the right direction, Smith says, even though the moves of the last two years may have come too late. And he advises against waiting for big trade shows before making announcements. "There seems to be this mad scramble to make open systems announcements right around UniForum and UNIX Expo, then they go out and do their own thing. They need to do more than announce. There needs to be a little more cooperation, more long term strategy and actual delivery of things that are promised when they are promised." COSE, the Common Open Software Environment, "was a great idea, but it focused too much on the desktop, and desktop UNIX is a niche market. The real market for UNIX is on servers, and they didn't address the types of issues that need to be addressed in the server area-for example, systems management, which is very much on the minds of most users today. No vendor has really stepped up and delivered what the clients are looking for." One of Smith's favorite current topics is an analysis of whether the software industry and the computer industry in general is consolidating or diversifying. "I'm leaning toward the theory that for it to continue to diversify, it has to consolidate a little more first," he says. "It's kind of like the Big Bang theory of the universe creation. In the beginning, there was the Big Bang and the universe was expanding, and we don't know whether it's going to continue to expand forever or whether at some point it's going to contract, go all the way back to the Big Bang, and start expanding again." End Article ------------------------------------------------------------ Affiliate News --------------- Washington Area Affiliate Thrives *** WAUUG has expanded from 200 to 1,400 members in recent years Founded in 1987, the Washington Area UNIX Users Group (WAUUG), is one of the healthiest in UniForum's worldwide family of affiliate organizations. Headed by a full-time executive director, Alan Fedder, WAUUG's membership has grown from 200 in 1989 to more than 1,400 today, some 475 of whom are joint members with UniForum. Membership has nearly doubled in the past two years. WAUUG holds its own annual trade show, Open Systems World/Fed UNIX. It publishes a thick monthly newsletter that's mailed to a wide Washington-area audience, and attracts up to 200 attendees to its monthly meetings. When WAUUG was founded, it combined two older UNIX groups, one for federal employees and another for the private sector. Fedder, an early member, remembers that the initial goal was for the founding members, mainly independent software developers, to find a marketplace for their products. "They succeeded," Fedder says. The turning point in WAUUG's story came in 1989, when Fedder was hired as executive director and the organization raised its goals. An aggressive corporate sponsorship program was begun. That gave the organization the resources to improve its services, including the quality of the newsletter and speakers. Fedder was appointed an ex officio member of the UniForum Board of Directors in 1992, representing affiliate groups. The first conference was held by WAUUG in December 1989, called the Federal Open Systems Conference, and had 100 attendees. "It was really designed to help senior-level federal executives learn about standards and procurement, to educate them about what was coming," Fedder says. Since 1990 a trade show has been held in conjunction with the conference. This year's event will be held in the Washington Convention Center Nov. 28 through Dec. 2 and is expected to attract 10,000 attendees. Included in the conference are nine tracks including six developers' conferences, 20 full-day tutorials, and 50,000 square feet of exhibit space. "The conference is known for its heavy-duty content," Fedder says. This year it includes a version of The Santa Cruz Operation's SCO Forum, as well as developers' conferences for SunSoft/Solaris, Novell, Windows NT, World-Wide Web/Motif, and Linux users. Information on the conference is available by calling (301) 953-9600. To expand its membership, WAUUG mailed its newsletter to a wide audience and set up booths at every major Washington trade show. "We got good speakers and our reputation grew," Fedder says. "There was a fair amount of controversy and we didn't shy away from it. The word was out that if you wanted a fair forum for your point of view, this user group was not going to jump on you. 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