I doubt it. Compaq's Tru64 v5 supports
VMS-style clustering -- VMS having had
clustering about 20 years ago. I suspect
it's based on the new Tru64 version, perhaps
with some extra software.
Not only that, but the object model that the desktop uses means that when you rename a file that a program object (or shadow) points to, the objects that refer to the file get updated automatically -- even if you do the rename from a command line. It's that sort of thing -- it was just designed correctly to begin with. Oh, and I still use OS/2 at home. Last thing I want to deal with is more Unix or Windows when I'm not at work.
It gives you the ability to model the reliability of old existing weapons and design new ones without having to violate test bans. The test the French were beat up over a couple of years ago was supposidly so they could get a few pieces of data they needed to be able to do computer modeling.
Within the next six months, you're going to see policy-based resource allocation take off, where certain services, protocols, subnets, users, etc. all can be assigned bandwidth limits.
I suspect that sort of thing is going to go in at universities first. We just had to kill Napster -- it was completely blowing away our T1. Our line utilization was cut in half as soon as we did it. And you're right, it's only a matter of time before the next thing comes along -- and policies (which Lucent, Cicso, and 3com are all supporting or planning to support) are going to take off.
I'm glad to see Novell fighting back for a change.
Microsoft recently had a few documents on their web site that were so close to false advertizing it wasn't funny. They were comparing Windows 2000/Active Directory with the original version of NDS that shipped with Netware 4.0 years ago. They didn't even compare it to the standard 7.x NDS versions most places are using, never mind the new (available for nearly a year) NDS 8/eDirectory product. They were stating limitations of the original NDS like they applied to current offerings. They pulled the articles pretty quickly, but that's been a standard tactic as well. Lie and then say "Whoops! Didn't mean it."
Microsoft decided to compare NT 4 (and the not-even-in-beta Windows 2000) against old versions of Netware (not Netware 5, which was available) a bit over a year ago as well.
They've been pulling this garbage for a couple of years now, and Novell's been trying to take the high road. Well, there's no way to take it when you have Microsoft basically making false statements and having their sales weasels calling the more uninformed upper tiers of companies and making rather dubious statements. Like when they tell gov't sites that NT is certified C2, even though the version they're selling isn't. (Not that it hugely matters, but it does call into question their honesty).
Some are. I can think of at least one well- known institution in New Jersey that was shutting down.
I work at another school in the same state, and I frankly thought they were nuts. We didn't shut down, and we're fine. Doesn't mean I didn't do extra backups this week, but having an extra tape doesn't hurt.
I remember a New York Times article about the "weird world of open source" which talked about the fact that the Navy was using OpenBSD (and making their own modifications), and the point that it was an OS distributed from Canada, containing security code written by an Italian programmer with contributions from a Russian, and how it open source software broke dowon a lot of the traiditional trust problems because you can look at it yourself.
In all fairness, it's actually a fairly cool idea. It was designed from the ground up to give end-users control over their own electronic identities, and control who can see and retreive what information. And it's designed with multiple profiles for each user in mind. All the information is encrypted and stored in NDS on Netware, Solaris, NT or Linux (current platforms). The idea is that user info would be stored in a lock-box that you have to give someone permission to retreive. The NDS admin can't see the content, assuming there aren't any encryption problems. I agree that the article is a little goofy, and it's a stretch for him to make the cookie claim, but it doesn't detract from the overall idea, which I suspect a lot of companies aren't going to like because it puts the customer in control.
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I doubt it. Compaq's Tru64 v5 supports VMS-style clustering -- VMS having had clustering about 20 years ago. I suspect it's based on the new Tru64 version, perhaps with some extra software.
Not only that, but the object model that the desktop uses means that when you rename a file that a program object (or shadow) points to, the objects that refer to the file get updated automatically -- even if you do the rename from a command line. It's that sort of thing -- it was just designed correctly to begin with. Oh, and I still use OS/2 at home. Last thing I want to deal with is more Unix or Windows when I'm not at work.
It gives you the ability to model the reliability of old existing weapons and design new ones without having to violate test bans. The test the French were beat up over a couple of years ago was supposidly so they could get a few pieces of data they needed to be able to do computer modeling.
I suspect that sort of thing is going to go in at universities first. We just had to kill Napster -- it was completely blowing away our T1. Our line utilization was cut in half as soon as we did it. And you're right, it's only a matter of time before the next thing comes along -- and policies (which Lucent, Cicso, and 3com are all supporting or planning to support) are going to take off.
Microsoft recently had a few documents on their web site that were so close to false advertizing it wasn't funny. They were comparing Windows 2000/Active Directory with the original version of NDS that shipped with Netware 4.0 years ago. They didn't even compare it to the standard 7.x NDS versions most places are using, never mind the new (available for nearly a year) NDS 8/eDirectory product. They were stating limitations of the original NDS like they applied to current offerings. They pulled the articles pretty quickly, but that's been a standard tactic as well. Lie and then say "Whoops! Didn't mean it."
Microsoft decided to compare NT 4 (and the not-even-in-beta Windows 2000) against old versions of Netware (not Netware 5, which was available) a bit over a year ago as well.
They've been pulling this garbage for a couple of years now, and Novell's been trying to take the high road. Well, there's no way to take it when you have Microsoft basically making false statements and having their sales weasels calling the more uninformed upper tiers of companies and making rather dubious statements. Like when they tell gov't sites that NT is certified C2, even though the version they're selling isn't. (Not that it hugely matters, but it does call into question their honesty).
I work at another school in the same state, and I frankly thought they were nuts. We didn't shut down, and we're fine. Doesn't mean I didn't do extra backups this week, but having an extra tape doesn't hurt.
I remember a New York Times article about the "weird world of open source" which talked about the fact that the Navy was using OpenBSD (and making their own modifications), and the point that it was an OS distributed from Canada, containing security code written by an Italian programmer with contributions from a Russian, and how it open source software broke dowon a lot of the traiditional trust problems because you can look at it yourself.
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In all fairness, it's actually a fairly cool idea. It was designed from the ground up to give end-users control over their own electronic identities, and control who can see and retreive what information. And it's designed with multiple profiles for each user in mind. All the information is encrypted and stored in NDS on Netware, Solaris, NT or Linux (current platforms). The idea is that user info would be stored in a lock-box that you have to give someone permission to retreive. The NDS admin can't see the content, assuming there aren't any encryption problems. I agree that the article is a little goofy, and it's a stretch for him to make the cookie claim, but it doesn't detract from the overall idea, which I suspect a lot of companies aren't going to like because it puts the customer in control.