ICE Expo: Singing the praises of e-commerce by Kristi Essick U.S. still leads in Internet use, alliances abound but few products debut at ICE. (1,800 words) Oracle, IBM ready Network Computers by Sari Kalin Oracle's Ellison sees Sun as fiercest rival in 100 million-unit market. (1,100 words) Sun eyes Citrix Windows code by Cara Cunningham with Mark Cappel `Internet toaster' OS or perhaps Java itself may get Windows display technology. (500 words) Here at last! SunSoft set to ship Java WorkShop by Ellen Messmer Solaris OpenStep beta also ready to go. (500 words) Tool talk by Carolyn W.C. Wong C still rules for application writers, but Java is up and coming. (1,000 words) SCO, HP ship API for Unix by Laura DiDio and Mark Leon McNealy criticizes HP at SCO Forum. (500 words) Netscape's Navio tackles consumer 'Net devices by Elinor Mills and Sari Kalin Netscape also partners with Apple on Cyberdog. (500 words) IBM to improve RS/6000 clustering software by Sari Kalin Users will be able to cluster up to 32 RS/6000s. (200 words) New products If it runs on, plugs into, or talks to Sun/SPARC/Solaris, it's here, in the industry's most comprehensive and timely new-product listing. New top-level domains promise descriptive names by George Lawton Start-up Alternic challenges InterNIC monopoly to register domain names. (2,400 words) Benchmarking the Web by Ed Tittel Are accurate and unbiased Web performance benchmarks possible? (5,000 words including two sidebars) Java versus ActiveX by Robert E. Lee The marketing war is on, but which offers the better technology? (2,300 words) Is the Web sapping your firm's productivity? by Barry D. Bowen Managers find new ways to crack down on browsing during business hours. (2,000 words) Building the Internet backbone by George Lawton Take a virtual tour of a busy Network Access Point. (2,700 words) SunLabs: Games of skill by Cate T. Corcoran Sun bets on best minds to lead it into the future. (2,000 words) Career Advisor: How to negotiate your salary and benefits by Edgar Saadi You don't want to be thought of as a money grubber, but you don't want to leave money on the table either. (2,000 words) Webmaster: Earn big bucks with your Web site by Chuck Musciano Cold hard cash is just a tag away when you start advertising on your Web site. (1,700 words) Security: NIS+: What's in a Name (Service)? by Peter Galvin It's not popular, but NIS+ offers noteworthy security features. (2,500 words) Sysadmin: Sysadmin stew: My summer vacation by Hal Stern We catch up on PGP, sysdmin tools, and rant about Network Computers. (2,500 words) Performance Q&A: Unveiling vmstat's charms by Adrian Cockcroft vmstat offers too much information to the uninitiated. Here's how to find what you need. (2,600 words) Connectivity: The Common Internet File System by Rawn Shah What Microsoft has in store for the Internet with CIFS. (1,400 words) Client/Server: Easing large Web site woes with a Wallop by Bill Rosenblatt Start-up toolmaker applies the object model to Web software development environments. (2,300 words) Unix Enterprise: What about my DBAs? by Harris Kern and Randy Johnson Tempted to outsource database administration? Better think twice. (1,500 words)

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