------------------------------------------------------------ UniNews The Newsletter For The UniForum Community ------------------------------------------------------------ Issue Date: April 11, 1997 Volume X, Number 20 ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE: UniForum News IT Horizon '97 Program Announcement Alan Fedder to Consult for UniForum Affiliates UniForum to Publish New Book on Network Computing UniForum '97: The View from the LINUX Community Job Opportunities at UniForum Industry News Standards Efforts Percolate Through Java Development Community UC Berkeley's Fisher Center Provides IT Leadership UniNews Features Standards in the Spotlight Network Management Performance - Tips and Tools Name.Space vs DNS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UniForum Association in conjunction with The Fisher Center for Information Technology and Management Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Announces: IT Horizon '97 Symposium, Workshop and Solutions Showcase "From the NC to the Networked Enterprise: Thin Clients, NetPCs, Robust Servers, Universal Access" JUNE 9-11, 1997 DoubleTree Hotel (formerly Red Lion) SAN JOSE, CAŹ Article Code: un1970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/thenews.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan Fedder to Consult for UniForum Affiliate Relations Alan Fedder, executive director of the Washington Area UNIX Users Group (WAUUG), and one of UniForum's most active and influential members, has agreed to represent UniForum as a consultant to the organization's 30+ affiliates around the world. Article Code: un2970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/thenews2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UniForum to Publish New Book on Network Computing From the NC to the Networked Enterprise: Thin Clients, Net PCs, Robust Servers, Universal Access, edited by Philip Gill UniForum will publish this new title in June in coordination with its IT Horizons '97 Conference of the same name. Article Code: un3970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/thenews3.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UniForum '97 - The View from the LINUX Community By Mark Bolzern, President, Work Group Solutions Reprinted from "WGS News", April 3, 1997 issue Article Code: un4970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/thenews4.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Current Job Opportunities at UniForum: Administrative Executive Assistant to President Membership/Marketing Manager - Association Information Systems Manager Article Code: un10970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/job.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Standards Efforts Percolate Through Java Development Community By Peggy King, Special to UniNews online At year two of the JavaOne developer's conference, there were abundant signs that Java is well on its way to becoming a standard for enterprise computing. Article Code: un5970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/Inews1.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UC Berkeley's Fisher Center Provides IT Leadership by Don Dugdale The Fisher Center for Information Technology and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, is both one of the West Coast's newest centers for the interchange of IT knowledge and one of UniForum's newest collaborators. Article Code: un6970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/Inews2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Standards in the Spotlight by Carl Cargill, UniNews online Standards Columnist The recent decision by Sun Microsystems to apply to the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (ISO/IEC JTC1) for recognition as a submitter of Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) is an interesting action that bears further examination. Article Code: un7970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/feature.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Network Management Performance - Tips and Tools By Eddie Rabinovitch, UniNews Online Network Technology Columnist "Managing network performance? That's really easy - simply add bandwidth when the response time is getting slow". Well, that used to be one of the paradigms way back, when LAN applications were first extended to the WAN (and the term "paradigm" was not in use as frequently as it is now.) Did this model work? Well, if it did, only in very few and marginal cases. Article Code: un8970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/feature2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Name.Space vs DNS by David Purdue Reprinted with permission from the October-December 1996 issue of "AUUGN", the Journal of AUUG, Inc., Kensington, NSW, Australia. auugn@auug.org.au Article Code: un9970411 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970411/feature3.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UniNews is written and published by UniForum. For information about UniNews or to contribute news for future issues, contact Dick Shippee, at 800-255-5620, ext. 17, or 408-986-8840; or e-mail to dick@uniforum.org. Copyright 1997 by UniForum. All rights reserved. UNIX is a registered trademark licensed exclusively to X/Open Co. UniForum is a trademark of UniForum. UniNews (ISSN 1069-0395) is published twice monthly and is included as a benefit of membership dues in UniForum, 2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 205, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Individual use of UniNews by readers to share articles with colleagues is encouraged by UniForum, however no portion of UniNews may be reproduced, stored in retrieval systems, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise for commercial use without prior permission from UniForum. UniNews is presented via electronic mail in ASCII format, and via the World Wide Web at http://www.uniforum.org. Send change of e-mail address or notification to unsubscribe to the e-mail version to pubs@uniforum.org, fax: 408-986-1645; or call 800-255-5620 or 408-986-8840, ext. 0. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To request the complete text of articles, send an email message to more@uniforum.org In the subject line, simply put the UNxYYMMDD code of the article(s) you'd like to retrieve, with each code separated by at least one space. For example, to retrieve articles UN1960925, UN5960925 and UN6960925, the subject line would be UN1960925 UN5960925 UN6960925 You don't need to put anything in the body of the email message. You can retrieve articles from different past issues in a single emaila message. The article(s) will be sent to your return email address. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++