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E&M seminar was today



Hi

I was today at the E&M (EMET MICHSHUV) seminar.
they introduced, among other things - Solaris 7 .

well, there is no big difference between solaris 2.5.1
and solaris 2.7 (now called solaris 7)
they had some kernel stuff, like load balancing, and
enlarging the max descripitors to 65536 instead of 1024,
also they did some things like including utils like 'traceroute'
in the distribution (late is better then never).

but what really prised me : they have a new product
called cascade.
cascade is used to let a sparc-station, remote manage NT.
and to my suprise, the config windows on the sparc, looked
exectly like the config windows on NT server - same icons,
same fonts etc...
Imagine seeing the 'User Manager' NT window on solaris :-(

I do not know if 'sun learning from microsoft' is good or bad ?
depends on what they will copy ( the look and feel ? gui ?)
and what they will not copy ( I hope among these stuff is the BSOD )
(BSOD is Blue Screen Of Death).

may be we will see in the future, MS sueing Sun for copyrights ?

well that was FYI.

regards
Erez.