If you want all of this on the Unix side in a single product from a vendor I would check out iPlanet Messagening Server, as well as others.
Single instance storage - Got it API's for backups (or doing anything) - Got it Restoring Mailboxes - Got it Anti-virus - Got it No need to restore mailbox from tape if it was delete in recently - Got it and it's unix.
Regardless of Share prices I don'think that Sun is any worse off than any of the other big tech companies right now. Which is to say they are all hurting. With this in mind I don't think any of the major tech companies want to try and spend that much money with the way the market currently is. It would require a serious amount of cash to purchase Sun and with most companies in the tech sector announcing profit warnings and layoffs I don't see that anybody is ready for a merger of this size. Finnaly having been using Suns for years this just does not "feel" like a very Sun thing todo. It's just not them.
First let me start by saying that I am a Comp. Sci and Comp. Engineering student at a very large well respected University, I also happen to work for University Computing Services. The problem that I see with most major universities, and even smaller ones, is not in the general education requirement but is that they do not know how to teach not liberal arts majors. At my school I have to take 12 general educations class, and for the most part these classes where fun and intresting. I Enjoyed spending some time look at something other than math or code. The problem comes when you go into the actual computer science classes. The University does not seem to understand that what most students want is not the heavy theory but the more practical knowledge of what/how to do things. Some people will argue that Univesities teach you to become the true Computer Scientists that deal with number theory, if you want to learn about System Administration go to ITT Tech or some other trade school. The problem is that most employers will take the person with the degree in Comp. Sci from Univirsity X over the person with the MS degree from Trade School Y. In fact it is very scary to me how little some of these Comp. Sci. kids knows after getting the degree. As an example we recently hired someone who had just graduated from our own Univeristies Comp. Sci department. I ended up spending a couple of weeks having to show him how to do his job. At first he was useless and even now he is little more than a living breathing shell script. The big univeristies still have all the prestige but they are not teaching what the employers want, well rounded individual who have useful skill sets.
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Being one of the sys admins who helped right a network management, monitoring, and billing system for a major university I have had some expierence with campus networks. Hear are a few tips.
1) Provide easy to follow instructions. Both online and in paper form. Distripute the paper ones to the dorms, and bookmakr the online instruction in all the public user rooms.
2) Only support the Operating systems you have the experise for. If you only know Windows 98 and Windows 2000, only provide support for those. Don't try and support an OS you don't really know. In the end the students will be happier wil no support than really bad support that might break there computer.
3) If the hardware is the problem, tell them. Don't try and sugar coat the problem.
4) Invest in some quality networking hardware, and develop a network management system. We use Cabletron's SFS switchs. In addition we have written a complete network management system that tracks MAC-to-user relationships, as well as what IP a user currently has, and where on the network they are. Despite the complexity of this system it allows for very powerful network management. We have been able to write a number of automated proccess this monitor the network and turn off ports if the user is causing a problem. This can be anything from using too much bandwidth, to trying to hack our servers, to trying to steal an IP.
5) Finnaly, DHCP. Make all of ResNet DHCP and make sure it is all behind 1 router port. This allows you to easily block things completely from ResNet. One of things we did a few years ago to prevent open-relay mail servers is to just block port 25 to resnet.
Just a few of the things we have done to make our lives, and the lives of our customer service people a little easier.
Well I missed the first part last night. So I tuned in tonight hoping to be impressed. First let me say that I am a hugh Frank Herbert fan. Now I understand nothing can be perfect but the 15 minutes of the show I watched tonight was horrible. I did not watch enough to see if the acting or plot was any good but I could not get over how horrible the effects, costumes, and sets were. The desert shots were obvisouly done on a small sound stage. you could obvisouly tell they were using back drops. The cosutmes were probably the worse. The still suits looked baggy on the people, and they where a light color. Now the still suit is a very important part of the book and the beatiful part about how Herbert wrote it is that it actually works. The suit is supposed to be skin tight for a reason, it keeps the mositure in. The things they had one looked baggy and made of fabric. Fabric breathes, a still suit cannont breathe, it defeats the purpose. Well that is my 2 cents worth. In the end I have no plans to watch the rest of Dune or any of the other ones for that matter, not until Sci-Fi decided to spend more then a few dollars on sets and costumes.
I am certaintly not going to tell you how to write your paper, or even debate with you if you should be asking for help, but.... if you want to get some intresting first hand sources about "building the internet" try reading the RFCs. Just search for RFC on any major search enginer and it will point you in the correct direction. You could also try reading Where Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner. It is a brief history of how and why the internet came to be. Just my thoughts.
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If you want all of this on the Unix side in a single product from a vendor I would check out iPlanet Messagening Server, as well as others.
Single instance storage - Got it
API's for backups (or doing anything) - Got it
Restoring Mailboxes - Got it
Anti-virus - Got it
No need to restore mailbox from tape if it was delete in recently - Got it
and it's unix.
Regardless of Share prices I don'think that Sun is any worse off than any of the other big tech companies right now. Which is to say they are all hurting. With this in mind I don't think any of the major tech companies want to try and spend that much money with the way the market currently is. It would require a serious amount of cash to purchase Sun and with most companies in the tech sector announcing profit warnings and layoffs I don't see that anybody is ready for a merger of this size. Finnaly having been using Suns for years this just does not "feel" like a very Sun thing todo. It's just not them.
First let me start by saying that I am a Comp. Sci and Comp. Engineering student at a very large well respected University, I also happen to work for University Computing Services. The problem that I see with most major universities, and even smaller ones, is not in the general education requirement but is that they do not know how to teach not liberal arts majors. At my school I have to take 12 general educations class, and for the most part these classes where fun and intresting. I Enjoyed spending some time look at something other than math or code. The problem comes when you go into the actual computer science classes. The University does not seem to understand that what most students want is not the heavy theory but the more practical knowledge of what/how to do things. Some people will argue that Univesities teach you to become the true Computer Scientists that deal with number theory, if you want to learn about System Administration go to ITT Tech or some other trade school. The problem is that most employers will take the person with the degree in Comp. Sci from Univirsity X over the person with the MS degree from Trade School Y. In fact it is very scary to me how little some of these Comp. Sci. kids knows after getting the degree. As an example we recently hired someone who had just graduated from our own Univeristies Comp. Sci department. I ended up spending a couple of weeks having to show him how to do his job. At first he was useless and even now he is little more than a living breathing shell script. The big univeristies still have all the prestige but they are not teaching what the employers want, well rounded individual who have useful skill sets.
Being one of the sys admins who helped right a network management, monitoring, and billing system for a major university I have had some expierence with campus networks. Hear are a few tips.
1) Provide easy to follow instructions. Both online and in paper form. Distripute the paper ones to the dorms, and bookmakr the online instruction in all the public user rooms.
2) Only support the Operating systems you have the experise for. If you only know Windows 98 and Windows 2000, only provide support for those. Don't try and support an OS you don't really know. In the end the students will be happier wil no support than really bad support that might break there computer.
3) If the hardware is the problem, tell them. Don't try and sugar coat the problem.
4) Invest in some quality networking hardware, and develop a network management system. We use Cabletron's SFS switchs. In addition we have written a complete network management system that tracks MAC-to-user relationships, as well as what IP a user currently has, and where on the network they are. Despite the complexity of this system it allows for very powerful network management. We have been able to write a number of automated proccess this monitor the network and turn off ports if the user is causing a problem. This can be anything from using too much bandwidth, to trying to hack our servers, to trying to steal an IP.
5) Finnaly, DHCP. Make all of ResNet DHCP and make sure it is all behind 1 router port. This allows you to easily block things completely from ResNet. One of things we did a few years ago to prevent open-relay mail servers is to just block port 25 to resnet.
Just a few of the things we have done to make our lives, and the lives of our customer service people a little easier.
Well I missed the first part last night. So I tuned in tonight hoping to be impressed. First let me say that I am a hugh Frank Herbert fan. Now I understand nothing can be perfect but the 15 minutes of the show I watched tonight was horrible. I did not watch enough to see if the acting or plot was any good but I could not get over how horrible the effects, costumes, and sets were. The desert shots were obvisouly done on a small sound stage. you could obvisouly tell they were using back drops. The cosutmes were probably the worse. The still suits looked baggy on the people, and they where a light color. Now the still suit is a very important part of the book and the beatiful part about how Herbert wrote it is that it actually works. The suit is supposed to be skin tight for a reason, it keeps the mositure in. The things they had one looked baggy and made of fabric. Fabric breathes, a still suit cannont breathe, it defeats the purpose. Well that is my 2 cents worth. In the end I have no plans to watch the rest of Dune or any of the other ones for that matter, not until Sci-Fi decided to spend more then a few dollars on sets and costumes.
I am certaintly not going to tell you how to write your paper, or even debate with you if you should be asking for help, but.... if you want to get some intresting first hand sources about "building the internet" try reading the RFCs. Just search for RFC on any major search enginer and it will point you in the correct direction. You could also try reading Where Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner. It is a brief history of how and why the internet came to be. Just my thoughts.