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To: ToySoldier who wrote (25977)	3/11/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Wallace Rivers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

I thought you put da puck in da net up there, too, eh?!<vbg>

To: ToySoldier who wrote (25977)	3/11/1999 8:40:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

MS porting Office to Linux? It may sound crazy, but developers say all the signs -- and rumors -- are there. By Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller March 11, 1999 4:34 PM PT Could Microsoft Corp. be doing the unthinkable in porting Office to the Linux operating system? Rumors concerning the existence of an Office port to Linux have been circulating increasingly in recent weeks. zdnet.com

To: ToySoldier who wrote (25977)	3/13/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 42771

Brainshare XV: Resurging Company To Strut Stuff -- Novell To Showcase NDS, Caching Partners Lee Copeland & Stuart Glascock Provo, Utah -- Novell Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. are back in the saddle again. Riding the cusp of a resurgence wave, Novell is developing with Compaq a dedicated caching appliance to reduce latency and conserve bandwidth, sources said. The vendors also will team to demonstrate the scalability of the next NetWare, code-named 6 Pack, on Houston-based Compaq's upcoming eight-way server, they said. The two companies will debut both products at Novell's 15th annual BrainShare conference, beginning March 21 in Salt Lake City. Compaq has had a team of developers from its Enterprise Group working on the appliance, a spokesman said. The product would attach to desktops or servers, he said. The appliance will include remote IP administration and auto rebuild features, said a Novell VAR familiar with the device. "The big benefit is potentially lower cost," the VAR said. Last April, Provo-based Novell struck a deal with Pinacor Inc., Tempe, Ariz., to bundle BorderManager with Compaq's ProLiant servers. "Any collaboration between Novell and Compaq will provide tighter integration and support options for everybody in the field," said Don Porter, network administrator for UtahLink, a state-owned ISP for Utah's public and higher-education system. UtahLink, one of several closed beta sites for the product, has installed BorderManager/ProLiant on each of its 11 Internet hubs. UtahLink proxies more than 200 million hits per day on a network of Sun and Novell servers. With BorderManager installed, Porter estimates some hubs have a 70 percent cache hit rate. Because recurrent pages are stored locally, the process cuts bandwidth utilization. Meanwhile, the next generation of NetWare offers scalable, Web-based networking and greater management through multiprocessor enabling of all NetWare core services. 6 Pack will add Novell Directory Services (NDS) version 8 and will take advantage of server management capabilities of directory-based ZENworks for desktop management. Compaq plans to incorporate 6 Pack's processor optimization in a demonstration of the hardware vendor's upcoming eight-way server technology at BrainShare, executives said. Modesto is Compaq's planned 64-bit server operating system designed for Intel Corp.'s future IA-64 processor. Novell plans to demonstrate an application and 64-bit server operating system in a simulated Intel Merced software development environment, said Brian Faustyn, Novell director of NetWare marketing. Modesto and Intel Corp.'s Merced are scheduled for release in mid-2000. 6 Pack is expected to ship in beta in April. BrainShare also will showcase NDS Release 8, a scalable version of the company's NDS, code-named SCADS. Unveiled last week, Release 8 will support up to 1 billion objects, said Chris Stone, senior vice president of strategy for Novell. Edward F. Moltzen contributed to this story. Copyright ® 1999 CMP Media Inc. techweb.com