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HP 3000 Visions for 1999 |
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January, 1999 |
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1999 I think 6.0 should have a significant impact on the community. With
Samba, Apache and Java officially being supported, it should open a lot of
previously closed doors. For me personally, it means I can formally put
this software into production and allow our MPE programmers to start using
these new tools. Im most excited about Apache! I can finally serve up
IMAGE-based information directly off the box thats storing the data
and not have to go through all sorts of hoops to move the data onto
some other machine.
Theres some potentially good stuff coming with multiple job queues, but thats still down the road. I could say the same about store-to-disc we can finally solve the MOVER problem. Id love to see better performance monitoring software come from HP. With the official death of Perfview, HPs created a huge hole in my bag of tricks. Remember, I wasnt that thrilled with Perfview to begin with, but now theres nothing (from HP, that is). 1998 brought 100-base-T support to MPE machines. This is great! Now an MPE server can do just that. I also should mention the great CI enhancements that we got this year; listfile,access may be at the top of my favorites list. CSY (and Jeff Vance in particular) did a wonderful job with the newacct/group, purgeacct/group UDCs. Since 3000s keep getting bigger and bigger, private volumes are becoming facts of life for a system manager rather than exotic or geeky features. These new UDCs go a long way to smooth over these commands idiosyncrasies. |
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Donna Garverick
Chair, SIG-Sysman |
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