July  1995

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Welcome to
SunWorld Online!

Welcome to SunWorld Online, an electronic magazine published by IDG Communications, the world's largest publisher of computer-related information. Our sister titles include Macworld, PC World, and Computerworld, as well as 225 others.

Responsible for SunWorld Online are the editors who brought you SunWorld and Advanced Systems magazines. Like a paper magazine, SunWorld Online includes news, new products, columns, features, letters to the editor, reviews, and advertisements.

Note that SunWorld Online is a magazine for Sun users with independent editorial content, not an on-line multimedia brochure where substance is subordinate to style. Sun Microsystems has been kind enough to host us at its site. However, this is not a Sun Microsystems publication and IDG remains entirely responsible for its contents.

Here are a few navigational tips to help you read our magazine:

• We place an abstract at the top of each column and feature so you can decide at a glance if a story suits your needs.
• You might prefer to read longer stories on paper, so we've made our sidebars and figures hyperlinked like you'd expect, and added them to the bottoms of the main stories so you can print everthing with one command.
• Many readers will want to browse SunWorld Online like a paper magazine; one story after another. At the top and bottom of each page is a button that says, "Next story," this refers to the next story listed in the table of contents.

Here's how we've organized SunWorld Online:

News

We emphasize news about products and events, and include analysis and perspective to help you understand what the news means to the Sun community.

New Products

Keep up with the latest products that work with SPARC and Solaris. Updated weekly with the newest products appearing first. We'll make it searchable, too.

Features

For help in understanding the technology behind today's Unix-based, client/server world, look no further than SunWorld Online's Features. Our newest feature compares two high-end configuration management tools.

Columns

Our News department tells you what's hot, our New Products section tells your what's new, and our Features department tells you what's important. How does one apply what's learned? Turn to our Columns section.

We've got top-notch pros in the field covering security, system administration, client/server computing, PC connectivity, software development, and running Unix systems as heavy-duty enterprise servers. For your personal career development, a recruiter answers reader questions about careers in Unix.

Services

Includes sunWHERE?, our monthly reader survey, our free e-mail notification service, this page, and our staff list.

How to use SunWorld Online's imagemapped logo:

That big graphic at the top of our table of contents (or "Home Page" in Web lingo), has hot spots you can click on to jump to different sections of our magazine.

The file you're reading now.

We publish every month (with some mid-month updates). Want to make sure you don't miss an issue? Just sign up for our email alert system by clicking on the Subscribe button. In exchange for you filling out a brief form, we'll send an alert of each new issue along with our table of contents each month, plus notices of latebreaking stories. No charge, no obligation -- we just want to make sure you don't miss an issue!

Our index to Sun, SPARC, & Solaris-related web pages.

Our monthly reader poll.

Your chance to be heard and learn what your fellow readers think.

A link to Sun Microsystem's home page.

To help defray the cost of producing SunWorld Online, we'll offer advertising space to vendors in the months ahead.

An easy way for you to send your responses to the editors.

If you have problems with this magazine, contact webmaster@sunworld.com

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Last updated: 1 July 1995.

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