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VOLUME 2 OS/2 WARP FM November/December 1998
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/warpfm
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What's Queued Up?
Perspective: A Development Manager's View of Java
Interview: Growing Up with Java on Wall Street
On the Air with Pat Sueltz
Jeff Smith Talks about Tivoli and OS/2
FM Featured Application: Zydacron Video Conferencing Solutions
Press Point
Industry News
Information Briefs
Perspective: A Development Manager's View of Java
In the Netherlands, there's a saying, "It all happens in Amsterdam" because no
matter what service, product or art is found elsewhere in the country, it also
can be found in Amsterdam. Similarly, according to Jan Monsuur, Software
Development Manager for ASM Europe, "In the next two years, it will all happen
in Java."
Impressive Results
Mr. Monsuur has good reason to be so up on Java. As the software development
manager for one of the top equipment suppliers to the fast-moving semiconductor
industry, Monsuur is under continual pressure to deliver error-free code
quickly. At the end of 1997, a pilot project converting a supervisor program
for ASM's custom-made manufacturing systems yielded a number of promising
results.
The graphical parts of the Java software ran "much, much faster" than the
corresponding pieces of Visual C++ code.
A superset of the supervisor was implemented in about 12 man-months as opposed
to almost 24 for a more basic C++ version.
The number of lines of code (LOC) decreased dramatically. For example
previously, network links required pages and pages of complex code, with Java,
only a few programming lines.
The leaner software simplified error detection.
Based on the success of the pilot and the need for speed in their many one-time
engineering efforts, ASM programmers continue to work in Java. In a follow-on
conversion effort, Monsuur's team restructured an application to take advantage
of Java's graphic capabilities in about nine months; whereas, the original
effort took approximately 18 months. Most of the savings came from the reduced
testing time based on a 60-70% decrease in the number of programming errors.
"The reduced error rate stems from the fact that the Java syntax is easier than
the C++ syntax," Mr. Monsuur explains. "Java does not use the terrible C
pointers -- the curse of every software manager. Plus Java takes care of
garbage collection."
Aside from the productivity gains, Java is one of several reasons that ASM is
gaining a competitive edge. The company is using Java to improve the look and
feel of its products with graphics showing reactors, mass flow controllers, and
valves as well as temperature and pressure gauges. Customers on the
manufacturing line notice the improved, more intuitive graphical interface and
it's much easier to add graphical features with Java than it is with C or C++.
In a recent customer satisfaction survey by VLSI Research Inc., ASM came out
number one. The company expects the upcoming deployment of Java-based ASM
products to contribute to the already-good results in the area of stability.
In the software service category, where based on comments from his customers
Mr. Monsuur expects Java to contribute in the near future, ASM topped the
number 2 competitor by 1.5 points on a ten point scale -- the largest
difference seen in any category.
The Power of the Language
In addition to the positive results, Mr. Monsuur attributes Java's power as a
development platform to its elegant setup and practical implementation. His
experiences with Java led him to the following conclusions.
Pure Java is truly platform-independent. Consequently, ASM's efforts to
develop versions for OS/2, NT and UNIX have lessened substantially.
The syntax is clear and simple. C and C++ are more obscure and usually
difficult to read. The semantics and syntax of Java more accurately reflect
the way human beings think.
The class libraries within the Java Foundation Class are large and cover an
enormous application area. ASM reuses many classes; therefore saving a great
deal of time.
As opposed to C++, network communication is completely integrated into Java.
Java's integrated development environments not only make it easy to use but
also can contribute to accurate version management through consistent archiving
of the various modules.
Java includes techniques for multithreading and synchronization. This makes
building an application with several threads exceptionally easy.
The ComponentWare concept is very powerful: JavaBeans are visual components
that can be used on different platforms and within various development
environments. This hot programming capability lets programmers simply drag a
bean to a graphical development environment where it starts working
immediately.
Over time it is becoming more and more obvious that Remote Method Invocation,
Object Serialization, and/or the combination of both are absolute high points.
They are the reason why Java deserves a position as a dominant programming
platform.
The Transition to Java
With their experience as C and C++ programmers, Monsuur's team found learning
Java a refreshing challenge. They quickly saw the advantages of Java over
C++. But there were a lot of classes to learn and unlearn. Overall, the team
came up to speed with Java in three months.
Mr. Monsuur is quite optimistic about the future of Java both inside and
outside his company. On the Internet he sees lots of Java programming
activity. He plans to make good use of the Java statistical process control
programs that he can acquire on the Internet as ASM extends their Java efforts
into this area. In fact, Mr. Monsuur is so confident in Java that he expects
it will be used in other areas, including parts of the embedded world.
Interview: Growing Up with Java on Wall Street
Eric Lehrfeld, Director of Business Development for Java consulting boutique
Random Walk Computing, gives WARP FM readers a glimpse into a company that has
essentially grown up with and because of Java.
FM: How would you describe your company?
EL: A consulting boutique specializing in distributed object computing on Wall
Street, emphasizing Java and CORBA technologies. We offer everything from pure
consulting on strategy, architecture, and design to outsourcing of development,
project mentoring, training, technology transfer and systems integration.
We're very focused on making distributed computing work for the Wall Street
enterprise in an efficient way. As such, we are laser-focused on this market
and position ourselves as the elite external source of expertise for financial
enterprises to turn to for their distributed computing needs. We want to do
what we do and only what we do. And we want to do it better than anyone else.
As a company, we're very methodology driven. From the experiences of the
people we've hired -- sort of a "Who's Who" of distributed object computing
gurus on Wall Street -- we've compiled a set of philosophies, practices and
checklists that address the technology-neutral problem of project management in
the Wall Street space. We've codified these best practices, bringing a
rigorous set of methods to each project. It's a key part of our value
proposition.
FM: How was Random Walk conceived and born?
EL: Random Walk was founded in 1995 by Joel Scotkin and Jim Lowe shortly after
Sun Microsystem's initial release of Java. The concept was to create a service
company to promote Java as a better tool than C++ for developing the kind of
systems that Wall Street likes and needs to build. Prior to creating Random
Walk, both, Joel and Jim, had worked as consultants on Wall Street developing
distributed object-oriented systems. They also attended Brown University
together. Joel, in particular, was involved in building several major trading
systems and with some of the earliest Web work on Wall Street.
With this background, Scotkin was immediately able to recognize the value of
Java to the Wall Street development community. He knew that every firm on Wall
Street had spent millions and millions of dollars trying to work out the bugs
associated with garbage collection and memory management in C++. He was aware
of the long development cycles often brought about by language quirks that lead
to extended debug and quality assurance phases. He understood the long-term
problems of maintaining parallel code bases for multiple operating systems. In
short, he recognized the tremendous efficiencies that Java would bring --
shortening project life cycles, improving system maintainability and extensity,
and reducing overall cost.
Today all this may seem obvious. But in '95, many people in the industry
viewed Java only as a better "ShockWave". It's potential impact as an
efficient development tool for the enterprise was overshadowed by its use as a
multimedia tool for making Web sites sing and dance. At the time, promoting
Java for enterprise development was a bit of a gamble. The language was so
young and certain things had to happen to make it a viable, robust, and
reliable choice for solving programming issues within an enterprise.
Fortunately for us, those things did happen.
FM: So how did the company grow a business from two to 30 employees by
evangelizing Java -- in effect taking it from infancy to adolescence?
EL: Joel, by virtue of his reputation, was able to go to his first customer and
convince him that Java was an important, emerging technology. He recommended
that they start a Java research group to keep track of this technology and let
him do a few prototypes. These included some basic data visualization
applications and a re-engineering of an existing C++ program into a
three-tiered thin-client system.
This initial success lead to larger and larger projects, eventually gaining
Random Walk a good reputation on the Street. In turn this led to more business
where we would build a prototype to demonstrate that Java was leading edge, not
bleeding edge, and could be relied upon as an enterprise tool. We would then
leverage the success of the prototypes into subsequent work.
In the second year we were able to take on real Wall Street projects instead of
the more experimental ones. For example, we built the complete global trading
network infrastructure for one of the largest asset management companies in the
world (Seehttp://www.randomwalk.com/publications/jtiwhitepaper.html). Our
approach was similar to that of IBM's San Francisco project -- layers of CORBA
services on top of one another, implemented in Java, where as you move up the
layers the functionality gets more specific, that is less horizontal, more
vertical. Under a framework we created building blocks to provide functions
like Dynamic Actions. We built lower level generic services such as
entitlement, audit, etc. Simultaneously, we trained their developers how to
use the framework to implement their more business-specific services such as
pricing, booking, etc.
With this foundation the company's own developers are building equity trading
services and GUI's. This enterprise, which by the way manages over $200
billion in assets, now has the strategic linchpin for all its future
development. And this project only took Random Walk 3.5 man-years over a
nine-month period.
Today, our business is diversified across the New York financial community,
working with many of the area's largest banks, broker dealers and data vendors
on projects ranging from one to 18 months and from two to seven people.
FM: What does the future look like for Random Walk?
EL: We plan on aggressively growing the company throughout the course of 1999,
staying with the Java/CORBA distributed object model and focusing on the
financial enterprises. Both Java and CORBA are maturing as technologies right
now, so we feel our growth pattern is sustainable for a few years. Geographic
expansion is likely next year as well. We're currently looking at other cities
where we could open up a second office. Expansion into another vertical market
has also been discussed.
For the longer term, we're always looking at all the new technology that's out
there. We've got our eyes peeled for the next Java -- the next great
technology that will provide large-scale efficiencies to the enterprise. From
the point of view of our business plan, we want to be consistently ahead of the
curve on these technologies -- invest in the ones with potential and see if we
can make them work for our customers and live up to their promise.
FM: What do you look for in these new technologies?
EL: Well, first we look at the technology itself. Is it a good idea? Is it
open and interoperable with other technologies? Does it solve any problems
that we've seen in the real world? We're not interested in a technology that's
elegant to an engineer but not useful to our customers.
The second thing we look at is the source of this technology. We like to see
things either supported by a standards body such as the OMG or an industry
coalition with players such as IBM, Sun and Microsoft backing it. Support of
that nature indicates investments of time and money, which bode well for a
technology's long-term stability and evolution.
And finally, after we're confident that the technology is fundamentally good
and has substantial backing in the industry, we need to make sure it solves
problems better than any other technology. It's got to be the best tool for
the job.
For more information visit the Random Walk Web site at http://www.randomwalk.com
or contact Eric Lehrfeld at lehrfeld@randomwalk.com or 1-212-480-5820
extension 224.
On the Air with Pat Sueltz
As 1998 draws to a close, it appears that the media around the world is
showering a disproportionate amount of attention on three main topics:
the effect of Monica Lewinsky on Bill Clinton's presidency,
uncertain global economic conditions and
the readiness of the world's computer systems for the Year 2000.
While I can't do anything to affect the first two items, I can help with the
third. We've established a goal that 100% of our confirmed enterprise OS/2
customers are either Year 2000 ready or have risk mitigation plans in place.
I'm sure this must sound like a huge undertaking and to be quite frank, it is.
So let me share with you our plans for accomplishing this mission.
Well, we started off easy. We broke down the Year 2000 readiness migration
into four phases:
Not ready
Considering options
Migrating to Year 2000 ready products
Year 2000 Ready.
The next step is to contact each of our confirmed enterprise customers to find
out where they are in the process and their plans. We've already made initial
contact with about 60% of our customer set either through the account team or a
telemarketer. So far we've found:
30% are still considering options,
49% are migrating and
21% declared themselves to be Year 2000 ready.
Most of our customers are acutely aware of what's necessary to ready their
systems and have already begun the transition to a Year 2000 ready platform.
Our contact is to help assure the successful completion of their Year 2000
readiness activities. Periodically we will call customers until they declare
that they are operating in a Year 2000 ready environment. The purpose of this
is to offer a single point of contact within IBM who, if needed, can help with
the Year 2000 migration. And although we do offer some fee-based services,
this is not a sales initiative.
If a customer chooses to remain on a non-ready OS/2 platform they lose product
support since all non-ready products have announced an end-of-service dates no
later than June 30, 1999.
Despite the sometimes gloom and doom portrayal, the change of a millennium is
incredibly exciting, especially in our industry. Java and all the latest
network technology innovations are completely changing how we live, play and do
business. Our Year 2000 ready products bring more than just protection against
failures, they offer opportunities. They lay a foundation for progress.
For more information on Year 2000 see:
The OS/2 Year 2000 Readiness page at:
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/solutions/and/y2000/year2000.html and the
IBM Year 2000 Home Page: http://www.ibm.com/ibm/year2000/. The software and
hardware groups recently announced a new Year 2000 Web page for small and
medium businesses at: http://www.ibm.com/IBM/year2000/pcs/.
Jeff Smith Talks about Tivoli and OS/2
I have been been working closely with Tivoli since 1996, when it became a
wholly-owned IBM subsidiary. In September of this year, Tivoli released a new
version of its systems management software, Tivoli Enterprise, along with four
related products: Tivoli Decision Support, Tivoli Service Desk, Tivoli Workload
Scheduler and Tivoli Output Manager. Included in the announcement was the fact
that OS/2 has been upgraded to a system that Tivoli can leverage as part of its
three-tier management infrastructure. Since that time, I have been very
pleased to tell customers that we have completed the next step in the OS/2
migration from the Systemview series of tools to Tivoli Enterprise software.
Tivoli's support of OS/2 has occurred in phases. The first step included
supporting OS/2 as a managed system, where Tivoli managed software
distribution, performed inventory scans and managed accounts for OS/2 users.
OS/2 was also supported by Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). This next phase
addresses OS/2 as a server. Within the Tivoli architecture, OS/2, connected to
the top tier, can now serve as a gateway fanning out distributions to and
gathering information from the bottom tier systems.
OS/2 customers now have the ability to take greater advantage of Tivoli's
policy-based management approach. By automating administrative tasks such as
inventory scanning and systems monitoring, Tivoli can reduce the manual
workload in an IT shop. More importantly though, it provides pertinent
information that can help IT run more effectively through decision support
features that help companies align systems management capabilities with their
corporate goals.
Tivoli Decision Support, a data analysis tool, lets customers periodically
review what's been going on in IT through graphical and inituitive reports.
For example, a CIO can look at the number of software distributions for patch
upgrades and the number for new functionaliy. He can see how many failures
were averted and their level of potential impact. By comparing this
information to the service level agreements he has in place, he can assess
whether he is expending his resources correctly.
Another of Tivoli's strengths is in the area of applications management. While
many systems management packages notify technicians or administrators about
hardware servers going down, Tivoli's applications management capabilities keep
the IT staff aware of problems by application. For example, if a New York file
server fails, with a run-of-the-mill software package, administrators may have
to scramble to find out what applications are affected. On the other hand,
Tivoli's Global Enterprise Manager (GEM) lets the IT staff know that Notes is
down because the New York file server has failed. Since applications are more
closely linked to a company's goals than specific pieces of hardware,
application management is just one more way that Tivoli keeps IT aligned with a
company's goals.
Tivoli has been in the systems management business for more than 9 years,
offering integrated products that serve as the backbones of IT operations. One
of Tivoli's goals is to allow OS/2 customers to reap the benefits of the
complete set of Tivoli functions. These latest announcements bring us a lot
closer to that vision. The OS/2 team will continue to consult with Tivoli and
participate in development until the OS/2 migration is complete.
For more information on these and other recent announcements from Tivoli, see:
http://www.tivoli.com/millennium/index.html.
FM Featured Application: Zydacron Video Conferencing Solutions
In this age of e-business, there's more than just the Web available for
digitizing operations and minimizing geographic distances. Since 1992,
Manchester, New Hampshire-based Zydacron has been creating video conferencing
solutions to help companies lower travel costs and offer alternative ways and
places to conduct business transactions. Its OS/2 offerings have allowed
banks --- many in Germany -- to set up unmanned branches that provide more
services than a typical Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).
Video conferencing provides another electronic means to help lower costs; yet,
it offers more intimate contact than a telephone, e-mail or Web transaction at
a similar level of convenience. Some transactions, such as negotiating a loan
or complex travel arrangements, lend themselves to this greater level of
intimacy. Since most consumers homes are not equipped with video conferencing
equipment, banks can place this capability in a kiosk located in a mall or
other high traffic areas.
Norman Graves, Director of European Operations sees video conferencing making
sense in many business situations. "It's especially useful for short meetings
between people located between 50 and 100 miles or kilometers apart. If two
engineers attend a one-hour meeting 100 miles away, they can spend nearly a
full day on something they could complete in one hour." Graves warns, "But
video conferencing is not a toy. You need to justify it with a sound business
case."
Users just double click on the icon for a video window to pop up. From the
built-in phone book, users double click on the number they want to initiate a
call. Once in process, callers can exchange files by dragging and dropping the
file on the video window. The application also enables callers to type
messages that appear on the screen during the call as well as hands free audio
calling.
By employing standards compliant decoding, Zydapp2, the solution for OS/2, can
accept incoming calls from other conferencing programs. Although decoding is
based on standards, Zydacron's proprietary encoding techniques produce high
quality video with less blurriness, faster frame rates, better color rendition
and better lip synching than its competitors.
Although Zydacron does most of its business through other equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) and resellers, it has gone to great lengths to simplify
installation for its end users. The set-up program walks the user through the
steps for installing the camera card as well as the application. It includes
diagnostics to ensure that connection between the card and the phone line works
correctly.
For more information on Zydacron products, see http://www.zydacron.com.
Press Points
InfoWorld Electric: Special News Report - The World's Oldest Start-up by Ed
Scannell, 10/26/98
In a very complimentary article describing IBM's reemergence as the world's
oldest software startup, author Ed Scannel offers up WorkSpace On-Demand along
with Notes 5.0 as one of the vital anchors in IBM's e-business strategy. The
next to the last paragraph states, "Another possible desktop hit could come
from IBM's WorkSpace On-Demand server, which serves up Java-based customized
desktops to users from central servers."
Computer Reseller New: IBM Pass OS/2 Turning Points by Stuart Glascock, 10/21/98
This article heralds the release of WorkSpace On-Demand 2 to manufacturing as
well as OS/2 Server for e-business moving into the large-scale beta testing
phase. Mr. Glascock portrays these events as turning points because of the
positive response to the WorkSpace release and the overwhelming demand to
participate in the OS/2 Server for e-business beta.
Computer Reseller News - IBM aims releasees at installed base -- Preps New
Version of OS/2 Warp Server, WorkSpace On-Demand by Stuart Glascock, 10/13/198
This article previews a few highlihts of the newest OS/2 Warp Server release
(OS/2 Warp Server for e-business) such as the Logical Volume Manager and the
inclusion of Netscape Communicator 4.04 for OS/2. It also mentions the fourth
quarter delivery of the WorkSpace On-Demand release 2, which has the ability to
deploy Windows applications from OS/2 servers.
Infoworld Electric: OS/2 Warp Server Update Due this Week by Ed Scannel,
10/13/1998
This on-line report started off announcing that the next beta of OS/2 Warp
Server for e-business will ship by October 16, 1998 and that WorkSpace
On-Demand 2.0 will ship two weeks later on October 30,1998. The article
mentioned the delivery of the "long-promised" Journaling File System. Mr.
Scannel also neatly explained the benefits of the Logical Volume Manager,
"which allows network administrators to balance file requirements across a
network without having to take the server down." He also mentions that this
release will include "for the first time" IBM's WebSphere Application Server
1.1 as well as device driver support for Intelligent Input/Output (I2O)
architecture.
VARBusiness: Annual Report Card -- Network Operating System -- IBM take first
despite price/product concerns, 10/12/98
OS/2 Warp Server came in first of four in this annual survey. VARBusiness
attributed the win to IBM's emphasis of e-business and network computing for
its larger customers. IBM led in the areas of support and partnership but
lagged in product pricing. The article quoted Ian Bonner, vice president Lotus
and IBM worldwide partner marketing, "The rating is a testament to last year's
alignment between IBM's NOS and network computing strategies in conjunction
with an emphasis on customers who need robust, scalable and reliable solutions."
Computer Weekly (UK): Bank weighs up OS/2 for thin-client move, 10/98
England's Midland Bank is making the first steps toward "thin-client computing"
by deploying OS/2 Warp V 4.0 to 30,000 desktops in its branches. The article
also reports that the bank may take advantage of OS/2 Warp's inherent Java
virtual machine to run new Java applications alongside its OS/2 ones as well as
leverage IBM's WorkSpace On-Demand technology (although the article referred to
it as "Workplace On Demand).
InfoWorld Test Center Report on Java Server Performance: No More Mr. Slow for
Java, 9/14/98
This complimentary report boldly states that "if Java is supposed to be slow,
someone forgot to tell IBM". To support this statement, the article points to
Java performance on OS/2, which except for the first data point, tested two to
three times better than Windows NT.
Industry News
IBM Press Release: IBM Releases First Java Speech API Implementation, 10/26/98
Building on its success as a leading worldwide developer of speech
technologies, IBM announced support for the Java Speech API with the immediate
availability of the first implementation of the 1.0 specification.
Additionally, IBM intends to ship a toolkit for the Java Speech API 1.0 in
Q1'99. With IBM's implementation of the 1.0 specification and tools,
developers can take advantage of the inherent strengths of the Java technology
- platform independence - potentially saving time and resources developing
speech applications for multiple platforms.
"Availability of the Java Speech API, announced today by Sun, is a major
milestone in our = industry effort to make speech recognition a pervasive
technology for desktop, mobile and enterprise solutions," said W.S. "Ozzie"
Osborne, general manager of IBM Speech Systems Business Unit. "By pairing
IBM's award-winning ViaVoice speech recognition technology with the leading
platform-independent solution, Java Speech API, our partners will have a rich
environment for developing speech-enabled applications."
PC Week Online: OBI is Open for Business, 10/20/98
At the recent Internet Commerce Expo (ICE) held in Los Angeles, California a
number of major companies, including IBM, Netscape, Microsoft, and Home Depot
demonstrated the implementation and interoperability features of the Open
Business on the Internet (OBI) specification. This year-old standard can help
companies conduct business to business e-commerce more easily and affordably by
letting Internet procurement systems interoperate.
EE Times: IBM stirs Java interest on campuses, Web by Robert Bellinger, 10/12/98
By sending Java programmers to university campuses around the world, IBM is
encouraging the already-intense interest in Java at the college level. If the
University of Delaware is any indication with nearly 40% of the engineering
students doing assignments in it, practically all the computer science graduate
students embracing it and undergraduates tackling it as professors start to
include it in their curriculum, Java can anticipate a very viable future .
Information Briefs
Indelible Blue offering Star Office 5.0
Indelible Blue, a national reseller specializing in IBM/Lotus software
solutions, is now an authorized dealer for StarOffice, a full-featured, yet
resource-efficient, office suite from Star Division, supporting OS/2, Windows
3.x/9x/NT, Linux, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and Java with consistent
functionality across all platforms. This award-winning suite's open data
exchange formats and numerous filters provide seamless integration with
existing programs and data from packages such as Lotus SmartSuite and Microsoft
Office. For more information, go to
http://www.indelible-blue.com/datasheet/staroffice.
Symantec offers introductory 12-month trial of Norton AntiVirus to PC DOS 2000
Buyers
PC DOS 2000 Buyers have the opportunity to try Norton AntiVirus free for 12
months. According to a 1997 Hebert Research Study, users recommend this
award-winning product more than any other antivirus program. After an easy
install process, it works automatically in the background. Download a copy at
http://shop.symantec.com/ibm/pcdos.html.
Netscape Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp Plug-in Programmer's Toolkit
IBM's latest browser release of OS/2 includes a plug-in toolkit that
programmers can use to extend, enhance and modify the behaviors of the
browser. The toolkit in the OS/2 version of Communicator is a port of the one
included with Netscape's packages. Not only does this toolkit allow developers
to write new native OS/2 plug-ins or translate existing ones for the OS/2
platform but they can also write them to interface with WINOS/2.
Year 2000 Readiness for Java
For OS/2 users the OS/2 Warp Developer's Kit for Java 1.1.6 is the upgrade path
for Year 2000 readiness for Java 1.0.x, 1.1.1 and 1.1.4 for OS/2. The
following versions are not Year 2000 ready:
* Java 1.0.1 for OS/2, included with OS/2 Warp 4
* Java 1.0.2 for OS/2, previously available in the Software Choice catalog
and also provided with Netscape Navigator 2.0.2
* Java 1.1.1 for OS/2, previously available in the Software Choice
catalog.
* Java 1.1.4 for OS/2, previously available in the Software Choice
catalog.
No Year 2000 problems have been identified in JDK 1.1.6.
Symantec Supports OS/2 Customers With New Antivirus Product
Symantec and IBM have underlined their commitment to OS/2 platform users with
the launch of an upgraded antivirus product that protects customers against the
CIH virus. Symantec has built on IBM's existing antivirus technology and
expertise as the OS/2 platform vendor by creating a new scanning engine and
developing a full technical support program, which includes fully-tested virus
definitions and future engine updates from the Symantec Antivirus Research
Center (SARC). See http://www.symantec.com for more information.
OS/2 Warp Server for e-business' Journaling File System
One of the major enhancements in the next release of OS/2 Warp Server is the
Journaling File System(JFS). To gain an in-depth understanding of how the JFS
positions customers to better meet their business objectives as they transition
to a network computing environment, see
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/products/aurora/aurorafs.html.
Back Issues of OS/2 WARP FM are available on-line at
http:// www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/warpfm.
For more information on the OS/2 Family of products see:
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp.
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Visit the on-line edition of the eNetwork Connection newsletter at:
http://www.networking.ibm.com/cover/cover.htm.
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change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
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