------------------------------------------------------------ UniNews The Newsletter For The UniForum Community ------------------------------------------------------------ Issue Date: July 1, 1997 Volume X, Number 24 ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE: UniForum News Letter From the Chairman To the UniForum Membership CIO Horizon '97 - Conference Report USENIX Conference Information Industry News Opinion: Is the Future of Unix in Your Hands? Guest Commentary - Two From Australia Inside OpenNT Sun's PAS Submitter Status with ISO/IEC JTC 1 - An Update Data General, DEC and SCO: New Products and Strategies UniNews Features Does Your Web Site Need Visitor Contracts? Part 2 Migrating to VLAN: Tips, Tools and Standards (At the end of this email are directions for requesting these articles) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Letter From the Chairman To the UniForum Membership: The one certainty in our world is change. Over the past few months your Board of Directors and the UniForum staff have wrestled with serious issues about how the Association will continue to serve its members and affiliates in the face of changes that affect our industry, our membership and our organization. Article Code: un1970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/thenews.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CIO Horizon '97 - Conference Report By Richard Shippee, Publisher, UniNews online Some 30 leading CIOs and senior IT executives met in San Jose, California, June 9th, to discuss the advent of network computing in the enterprise, under the auspices of UniForum and the Fisher Center for Management and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Article Code: un2970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/thenews2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ USENIX Conference Information Complete program information for 3 upcoming USENIX events is now available: 5th Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop USENIX Windows NT Workshop Large Scale System Administration of Windows NT Workshop Article Code: un3970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/thenews3.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Opinion: Is the Future of Unix in Your Hands? by Michael Paddon, President, Australia Unix Users Group (AUUG) Article Code: un4970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/Inews1.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Guest Commentary - Two From Australia Has NT's Time Come? by Frank Crawford Microsoft's publications regularly claim that this is the year that NT will take off, as if these repeated statements will make it happen. Article Code: un5970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/Inews2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Inside OpenNT A Solution to Porting UNIX Applications to Windows NT by Stephen R. Walli, Special Technical Contributor to UniNews online Article Code: un6970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/Inews3.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sun's PAS Submitter Status with ISO/IEC JTC 1 - An Update By Richard Shippee, Publisher, UniNews online Much has been written in the press in recent days concerning the status of Sun's application to ISO/IEC JTC 1 to be a submitter of a PAS (Publicly Available Standard) for Java. Article Code: un7970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/Inews4.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Data General, Digital and SCO Announce New Products and Strategies The Product News below should be of interest to UniForum members, and was submitted by the companies. Article Code: un8970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/Inews6.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Does Your Web Site Need Visitor Contracts? Part 2: Making the Contract Stick by Lance Rose, Esq., UniNews online Legal Affairs Correspondent Once a webmaster decides to require visitors to agree to its online contract, is there any problem in making it stick? **You can request part one of this article by entering the Article Code un8970606.** Article Code: un9970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/feature.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Migrating to VLAN: Tips, Tools and Standards by Eddie Rabinovitch, UniNews online Network Management Correspondent With the migration from shared to switched LANs the term VLAN has become a common term not only within standards committees and engineering departments, but in many network management centers and campuses. Article Code: un10970701 http://www.uniforum.org/web/pubs/uninews/970701/feature2.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UniNews is written and published by UniForum. 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