Compaq, releasing Version 7.2, signals support for OpenVMS
OpenVMS users can expect Compaq Computer Corp. to support their applications for the foreseeable future, company officials promised this month. Compaq brought out Version 7.2 of the OpenVMS operating system and a single-processor, $19,000 AlphaServer DS20. The server comes loaded with either OpenVMS 7.2 or Tru64 Unix, the renamed Digital Unix that Compaq acquired along with Digital Equipment Corp. a year ago.
Trinium servers execute up to 3,200 MIPS
The first copper-based Skyline Trinium servers from Hitachi Data Systems Corp., announced today, will run nearly twice as fast as current Skyline servers under IBM OS/390. The Trinium servers' ACE/2 processors hybridize bipolar and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technologies. The second-generation ACE/2 chips have 0.20-micron copper circuitry and silicon-on-insulator fabrication. "We had to move beyond just another turn of the crank on the mainframe," said Bill Tudor, director of systems architecture for Hitachi Data Systems of Santa Clara,
STARS stores reports on tape, saves money
The Navy's Standard Accounting Reporting System has made significant cost savings and productivity gains by storing financial reports on tape, said Dan Hestor, who supports STARS users at the Defense Megacenter in Mechanicsburg, Pa. The megacenter has trimmed its disk storage requirements to one-third of what they were in 1995 when STARS came online, Hestor said. "We saved the equivalent of more than 10 packs of direct-access storage devices," he said.
Find answers to nagging compatibility questions
"Even all Microsoft Corp. products don't interoperate." How can we make all this stuff work—together? It's a common refrain that echoes through systems shops. Now a group of agencies and vendors is working to create an online clearinghouse to help government agencies answer that question for specific products.
Microsoft posts year 2000 info, tips about real-time clocks
After several months of revising, Microsoft Corp. has reposted a white paper about year 2000 readiness that it pulled off its Web site late last year. The new document, at http://www.microsoft.com, is the company's official readiness disclosure about a topic that is giving PC managers heartburn. Microsoft's paper grew out of several months of discussions with Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., Greenwich Mean Time-UTA L.C. of Arlington, Va., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Intel Corp.,
Alchemy system can convert PC files into Web gold
Information Management Research Inc. has Web-enabled its document database manager, which handles large volumes of public records at several government sites. The Englewood, Colo., company designed the Alchemy Web Server and Alchemy 6.0 to be set up quickly without custom coding for relational database and storage devices. The Alchemy Web server is compatible with Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Internet Information Server and Microsoft Active Server Pages. Alchemy 6.0, the document database manager, runs under NT.
Intel tags Pentium III chips with optional IDs
Intel Corp.'s Pentium III processor, set for release late this month, has a built-in serial number to ease the chores of LAN asset and configuration management. But the serial number will arrive software-disabled in the new Pentium III servers and workstations. Mobile Pentium III notebook processors that come out later this year also will have built-in processor IDs, and Intel's security road map extends beyond that, spokesman George Alfs said.
USGS juggles data requests
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—The Earth Resources Observation System Data Center here is struggling to meet the high demand for its archive of satellite remote sensing data. Global change researchers want historical imagery and related spatial data sets. "Our challenge is to make sure we preserve all that," said Stuart W. Doescher, program manager for systems engineering at the Geological Survey site.
Army center enhances intranet with text-mining app
SemioMap can recognize HTML and Notes documents. Using SemioMap, the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., has mapped 50,000 pages' worth of text onto a single intranet screen. The Web text-mining application from Semio Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., represents key concepts in large volumes of unstructured text data without any initial tagging.
Domino 5.0 will have secure PKI components
ORLANDO, Fla.—The successor to Lotus Domino Server 4.6 will have secure public-key infrastructure components and a standard interface for synchronizing with other vendors' PKIs. Although Lotus Development Corp. officially launched Domino Server 5.0, Notes 5.0 and Domino Designer 5.0 at the LotuSphere trade show here last week, it has held back their release a few weeks for "last-minute polishing," chairman Jeff Papows said.
NIH fields data warehouse
The National Institutes of Health spent three years building a 27G data warehouse to answer frequent calls for management data from its own staff, Congress and the public. After assembling the NIH Data Warehouse, the agency's Information Systems Branch is looking for a sharp drop in demands on its time as managers get more familiar with the warehouse's self-service data marts.
Commerce program looks to bolster EC with common library of XML definitions
"Without some kind of common business library, the whole promise of XML goes out the window," Tenenbaum said recently. Officials in the Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program apparently shared Tenenbaum's view enough to award a $4.8 million contract in 1997 to the CommerceNet consortium and three Internet startup companies.
App gives Customs a gauge | GCN
Customs' Michael Raithel and Sandy Koncir collaborated on the CMAS intranet application, which has been nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Using the Customs Measurement Analysis System scheduled to come online this month, Customs Service officials for the first time will see how well they are doing their jobs compared with peers at other ports and Customs Management Centers.
Database helps agency supply answers on date code progress
Federal Aviation Administration employees invited by the Transportation secretary to a listening session in September told the secretary that year 2000 oversight and reporting burdens had added to their stress in an already stressful job. Until as recently as July this year, the FAA maintained no centralized database of year 2000 system-readiness data, despite frequent calls for information from oversight officials in the General Accounting Office, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President's Council
FAA deflects criticism about its contingency plans
The agency will spend $142.2 million in fiscal 1999, according to figures it submitted to the Office of Management and Budget last month. Both the air traffic controllers union and the Transportation Department inspector general have criticized the Federal Aviation Administration's plans for responding to possible computer-related service disruptions around Jan. 1, 2000.
Utilities ride on NT coattails
Every Microsoft Exchange Server license bought by the federal government is good news for NetIQ Corp. The 3-year-old Santa Clara, Calif., software developer sells its Microsoft BackOffice and Windows NT operations management software on the General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule. Because agencies in recent months have bought thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server licenses, NetIQ has in a relatively short time sold its NetIQ AppManager suite to some of the largest federal NT users, including the
Census, other agencies tap NetWare for new networks
Leased servers running Novell NetWare 4.12 will populate 450 or more field offices as the Census Bureau next month begins to set up temporary LANs for the 2000 census. That and sizable government orders for NetWare 5.0, released in September, are helping Novell Inc. regain visibility in the network operating system market, Novell officials said recently.
PC managers seek the real deal on real-time clocks
Year 2000 project teams have gotten conflicting advice about real-time clocks from two powerful partners in the PC industry: Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. The topic is more than academic for managers who worry that even brand-new PCs might not be fully year 2000-ready [GCN, Oct. 19, Page 1]. At issue is how far they must go in testing their PC hardware to guarantee it will work properly after Jan. 1, 2000. Some operating systems, including
Army sets its sights on making ammo supply data easy to track
AMROTS pools data every six hours to give users up-to-date information about specific items. The Army this month will hand over new software tools to 3,000 ammunition supply personnel who have survived military downsizing. "I'm trying to get them some tools that make their job easier in today's trying times," said Geoff Myers, chief of the Army implementation team for the Defense Department's Joint Ammunition Management Standard System. Because the new Virtual DB tools
IBM deals a card to connect PC, mainframe servers
The Escon cards work with several Netfinity servers. IBM Corp. this month delivered an Escon adapter to connect IBM Netfinity PC servers to IBM S/390 mainframe servers at rates of up to 200 megabytes/sec. Users pay about $12,500 for the high-speed, bi-directional connection, IBM officials said. The direct-connect Escon cards work with several Netfinity servers that IBM introduced in September. The high-end Netfinity 7000M10, a four-way, 400-MHz Pentium II Xeon system, runs Microsoft Windows NT
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