------------------------------------------------------------ UniNews The Newsletter For The UniForum Community ------------------------------------------------------------ Issue Date: February 12, 1997 Volume X, Number 17 ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE: Industry Profile Former DJ Mitchell Kertzman Leads Sybase Out of the Red UniForum News Free Service to UniForum Corporate Sponsors New UniForum Corporate Sponsor Industry News Experts Look Back and to the Future Encryption Policy Debate Lights Up San Francisco ActiveX vs. JavaBeans: The War Heats Up +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Former DJ Mitchell Kertzman Leads Sybase Out of the Red Fired from radio station, he began his career as a programmer It was a storybook beginning for the career of a high-tech CEO. He was the teenage folk singer who dropped out of college to become a radio disk jockey, and was then fired for inciting a riot (he denies the accusation). While he was pumping gas, his mother found him a job as a technician at a software company. He started to program, found himself hooked, started his own company and never looked back. Article Code: un1970212 http://www.uniforum.org/news/html/publications/uninews/970212/Iprofile.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Free Service to UniForum Corporate Sponsors Expanding or moving your business? Use site location service Finding affordable labor, the right kind of facility, the costs of T-1 lines, free training programs and other community incentives are just a few of the things you have to do when evaluating potential sites for a business operation. Until recently, discovering the right place was both time-consuming and expensive. Article Code: un2970212 http://www.uniforum.org/news/html/publications/uninews/970212/thenews2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ New UniForum Corporate Sponsor We welcome ILOG to the UniForum fold ILOG, Inc. of Mountain View, CA, is the worldwide leader in advanced software components for business applications. ILOG's award-winning products enable high-performance data visualization for 2D and 3D user interfaces; constraint-based reasoning systems for resource optimization, scheduling, logistics and planning applications; dynamic rule systems for intelligent agents and realtime data flow control; and component services for integrating C++ modules with realtime and relational data sources. Article Code: un3970212 http://www.uniforum.org/news/html/publications/uninews/970212/thenews.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Experts Look Back and to the Future Industry panel assesses the state of Unix product marketing efforts The Jan. 14 session of the Software Forum/UniForum Unix Special Interest Group (SIG) featured a "change-of-pace" program, featuring a Unix product marketing panel. The panel offered its take on the high and low points for Unix in 1996 and some of the prospects for the industry, going forward. The session was held at Amdahl Corp.'s headquarters building in Sunnyvale, CA. Article Code: un4970212 http://www.uniforum.org/news/html/publications/uninews/970212/Inews3.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Encryption Policy Debate Lights Up San Francisco Friends and foes of U.S. encryption rules face off at conference At the 1997 RSA Data Security Conference in San Francisco in Jan., one didn't have to look far to find an opinion on government regulation of cryptography export. The topic hung over the proceedings like a winter storm cloud, complete with lightning bolts. It seemed everyone had an opinion--and they formed around two opposite poles. There was no middle ground. Article Code: un5970212 http://www.uniforum.org/news/html/publications/uninews/970212/Inews2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ActiveX vs. JavaBeans: The War Heats Up The Open Group accepts responsibility for guiding ActiveX deployment Two events of March 1996 are continuing to create waves in the world of software development. On Mar. 12, Microsoft Corp. announced its ActiveX technologies, which essentially let content developers more easily create Web sites by stitching together reusable components. Shortly thereafter, the JavaSoft division of Sun Microsystems announced the JavaBeans initiative to allow developers to write Java applets and applications from reusable components. The intent in both cases was to provide a component-based development environment with Web-based functionality for Java and non-Java software. 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