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tions softwarels available for Windows. The best alternative to the Microsoft crime would hnve been for Apple to haveported the Mac OSto Intel PCs a decade ago. For reasons of Apples shipidity, incompetence and greed thiswasn'tdone.Too bad for all of us.

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«anadlan pilot project eases Internet Toronto, and at public libraries in Brantford, access for blind • TORONTO (NB) — AOnt„and Regina, Sask., are trying out the spepilot project involving three libraries is testing cially equipped computers.

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not require the comprehensive functionality of a traditional office suite such as Microsoft version of its WordPerfect Office suite (based Office or Lotus SmartSuite. on the Java programming language), Lotus Perhaps even more importantly, eSuite Development has stepped into the fray. WorkPlace allows access to existing enterprise In doing so, it seems likely the Network applications and is built to coexist in enterComputer (NC) market may finallyhaveseen p r ise environments that include traditional the birth of its first "killer application" as office suites. Lotus further claims that eSuite Lotusannouncedthatitwasshippingthefirst WorkPlace will enable enterprises to reduce widely available, commercial, integrated office their computing costs and increase end-user software suite that runs in Sun Microsystems' p r oductivity.

None of this comes for free. Lotus says eSuite WorkPlace is expected to be available in

additional languages for PCs and additional NCs in the second quarter of 1998. It is being offered at an estimated introductory price of

$49 per user (through the company's volume pricing program, Lotus Passport), while the Lotus eSuite DevPack preview is currently available for download in 22 different language versions at no cost from the Lotus eSuite Web site.

95-based personal computer with an Intel Pentium processor or an Apple Macintosh — it Java operating environment. LotussayseSuite Work Place also provides Lotus further pledges that eSuite DevPack can run eSuite, K nown as eSu i t e , And eSuite is not simply a cut-down or information technology man- should be available in those same languages WorkPlace, it entered man,~ -='= : ~ :..'~.-'=="=':, agers with a desktop solution later in the first quarter of 1998 for an esti- revamped version of the Lotus SmartSuite - ="-„ufacturing in January and that is centrally deployed and mated price of $1,495 per single processor that Lotus Development has long offered for was expected to ship shortmaintained, thereby "mini- through the Lotus Passport program. All Windows 95 systems. It is a "fresh from the ly thereafter on the IBM's mizing the h ig h t r aining, eSuite licences will be sold with a subscription ground up" Java-based suite that it is aimed Network Station Series1000 'av:;,'; .~dep l o yment and maintenance that includes product updates and access to an squarely at enterprise local area and wide area .::=:=:;= ,=:: NC system. Lotus' eSuite >=: networks (LANs and WANs) and intranets. costs" associated with tradi- online, monitored administrators' forum. : ~=~~ ' tional desktop c omputing WorkPlace offers electronic The real key to the significance of the Perhaps even more importantly, it has the mail, Web browsing and a --, solutions. eSuite offering, however, is that it makes your backing of parent company IBM (which has set of relatively compact ',.-,:~i~~-'-') For c o mpanies that want operating system and computer hardware demonstrated its commitment by planning to .'-'.-.'~wi' to move into the provision of platform irrelevant. As long as your systems ship eSuite with its NetStation systems), and business p r o ductivity Pj>-'. :,:-,-".'.-~,== '="-'.'"-''-~~ ~ +~ ~ applications. integrates well with the popular Lotus Notes services that exploit Java as a can run a Java-compatible browser — be it a At the same time, Lotus ~>=,:-,.=.==.~'-' =--~~==-~ pl atf o rm, this has potentially Sun Microsystems's workstation, a Windows corporate communications environment and "' " ' " '== - "= " - " ' .= ' '-' announced that preview the Lotus Domino server software. huge implications. And Lotus a ~. o a a a a z i a code ofthe eSuite DevPack, In short, if there were ever a team that was is working hard with parent likely to succeed in championing the Network a set of Java-based applets that should allow c o m pany IBM to educate customers on the corporate users of eSuite to build interactive e x tent to which eSuite can be used to create Computer, it would appear that IBM and Internet applications, was immediately avail- J ava-based c orporate a pplications. A t Lotus are it. IBM is fast becoming the domiableasa freedownload from the LotuseSuite L o tusphere, it even had a few early cusnant player in sales of Network Computer ' Web site (http://esuile.lotus.corn). hardware, while Lotus has just shown that it tomers ready to sing songs of praise about Built in Java, Lotus eSuite WorkPlace t h e software. still has the power to make a difference in the applets include a word processor, email, software market with the development of Lotu ssaysitisundertakinga "comprehenproducts such as eSuite and Domino. Time spreadsheet, calendar, address book and pre- s ive program to educate developers" on how M4~. "e'lie."w ~ P ' will tell whether corporate computer users sentation graphics. Lotus claims they are t o b u ild interactive Web applications with and buyers agree. 0 small, fast, and modular, and load quickly on e Suite DevPack. The program will apparently '

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appears to have focus, dire%ion, a strong Thompson, now the vice-president in charge sense of where it fits within IBM and a strate- of IBM's software division, gy that seems to look first at its customersThat, and the long, sad history of of data. Using Notes RS, they' ll be able to not on how it can outwit Microsoft. SmartSuite, appear to be in the past. Lotus have a single view of all these data types and Leaving aside the product specifics of this Also telling during this event, was the was is now looking at the assets it has —most applications. event by the ocean, with the towering mouse a significant number of attendees from importantly a ZO-mill)on seat base for Lotus "Notes R5 mirrors the way professionals at ears in the background, it becomes clear that Canada, which has one of the highest rates of Notes and a $60 billion-plus parent corpoorganizations of all sizes need to work today, Lotus is a dramatically different company penetration of Lotus Notes in the world, ration — and appears to have decided that with all of their most mission<ritical applica- from the embattled enterprise that washed up accordint to Lotus, It is also interesting that both of those factors make it worth getting tions easily accessible from one place for max- on IBM's corporate shores back in 1995. It company president Papows reports to John up in the morning. Q imum productivity and p erformance," explained Papows, Corrtinrred from page 18

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manager, monitor competitors' Web sites or view a list of important meetings and urgent tasks for the day, on this headlines page. No one should be under the impression that Lotus has any interest in reinventing the browser' however. At a press conference during Lotusphere, the company made it very clear Lotus didn't want to b e competing directly with either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. While Notes R5 will i nclude its own browsing capabilities, it will also provide the

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hooks, magazines, and newspapers (cigars are optional). nce, this was more or less true. Then along came the personal computer. Some say the defining change was the introduction of affordable desktop publishing software for this platform. Others say it was the introduction of the Macintosh. Still others say it was the introduction of the laser printer. Whatever the case, the notion of creating your own publication is no longer the impossible dream that it once was. Downward-spirafing costs have played a part (a laser printer which once sold for $5,000 can new be bought for $700, for instance) in making it feasible for

Using electrosss for ink What is particularly interesting about the Internet's invasion of the publishing world is the transformation it has wrought on the pub-

And then there's Animation World and PDF (portable document format). Paper Magazine (htip//www.awn.corn/mag), the official requires no explanation, but there are some publication of Animation World Network, also an entirely online entity. The monthly magazine provides animation aficionados with news, reviews, and interviews in two

used to produce paper-based documents. The most basic way to get words onto

paper is with the venerable word processor.

lishing landscape. First of all, URLs (uniform ways: either by the online artides (sometimes While originally designed to emulate a typeresource locator — more commonly known as incorporating video clips so readers can see writer, the modern word processor incorpowhat is being reviewed), which are posted on rates enough features to make the most the Web site address) on magazine mastheads

the Web site on the first day of each month, advanced typewriter jealous, With features or by the downloadable edition of the rnaga- such as columns, tables, graphics, rules, and zine, which is made available on the 15th of drop caps now commonplace, it would seem cyberspace claims, stampeding to gain some the month. The downloadabie edition has no that th e p r ospective publisher/designer multimedia elements, but is structured more would need look no further — until you take a sort of Web presence. It's reminiscent of the like a traditional magazine. closer look. rush from radio to television. The word processor's best feature is also But as we all know, television only really its worst enemy: it tries to be all things to all got interesting when broadcasters stopped people, Theoretically, you should be able to imitating radio and vaudeville, and innovause the same program to create anything tors started coming up with original material having to do with words; letters, business that exploited the new medium. Similarly, the reports, brochures, user manuals, calendars, most exciting part of the online publishing and more. Right? revolution comes from the strictly online Wrong. The tip off is in the name: word efforts — the publications that have no ties to processor. Everything in a word processor docthe world of pulp and paper. ument is secondary to the text itself. Almost F or i n s t ance, S a l o n (httpl/www. every document listed above uses graphics, salonmag.corn) covers news, entertainment, text boxes, call outs, and other graphic eleand general commentary, attracting contribuments. All of these features are available in tors such as Camille Paglia, Tom Tomorrow, word processors, and they work very weli on Christopher Hitchens, and )on Carroll, as well their own, but they' re forced to fit into the as a host of talented young up-and-comers, word processing model and not really suited Salon takes advantage of the Web by making for extensive use, past articles accessible via a search engine, and The main problem is in the way word by updating the "magazine" in a modular processors are designed. They see documents fashion. Rather than waiting for a new "issue" as a sequence of characters: a river of text, to come out before changing the content, cerwhose flow is redirected by margins, indents, ' tain articles and columns are updated on difThese examples are just the tip of the iceand other factors. When an object is placed have gone from being rare curiosities to commonplace in the space of about three years. Publications large and small have staked

Smaller publications and lone voices that are not affiliated with big companies also thrive on1ine. The sentiment seems to be, "Why wait

for someone else to produce something I'd like to see done)"

an individual to create a professional-looking ferent days of the week.

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distinctions to be made between the tools

CNet's News.Com (http: //www.news.corn) takes it a step further; rather than being an online magazine, it's more like an online

on the screen, it is in some way being placed

thrive online, The sentiment seems to be, within the flow of th e text. As a result,

"Why wait for someone else to produce some- changes in the text can sometimes cause the object to unexpectedly change position. unchanged for a long time. In recent years, newspaper, with updates coming in and head- thing I'd like to see done?" Deleting the wrong paragraph could result in the world of publishing has undergone a more lirles being rearranged in hours instead of This latter tidbit is what excites most the object being taken with it. And this is just dramatic shift, thanks to (what else?) the days. Naturally, the articles are archived and would-be publishers, as it rightly implies that Internet. Even with the personal publishing available at any time, Each article is also getting words and pictures out — via paper, the the beginning. This is not to say that a word processor revolution, people with lofty ambitions still extensively hyperlinked, permitting easy Internet, intranets, CD-ROMs, or whatever's can't be a viable publishing tool. People can had to contend with the problems of printing access to relevant background information. around the corner — has become a lot easier to — and have — created newsletters, brochures, costs and distribution. The Internet has News,Com also includes RealAudio newscasts, accomplish. books, and magazines with them, even during changed all that, especially with the populari- combining text and audio in a way that can the days of W o rdPerfect 5.1 fo r D OS, ty of the World Wide Web. "Printing co~ts" only be accomplished on the Internet, Words on paper However, it can sometimes be a little like can now be as little as the $20 monthly fee for Flexible records and CDs bundled with music We can divide publishing into three media: using a screwdriver as a hammer; it works in connecting to an. Internet service provider magazines pale in comparison. paper, HTML (hypertext markup language), Continued orr page26 Still, books and magazines have remained

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er that regardless of the approach, learning a program capable of printing, the user is free to =g

One of these ways is to use your favorite l i t tle HTML goes a long way.

word processing or desktop publishing program. pinch, but in the end it's a better idea to get Just about all of the major packages now have

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use his or her program of choice to create the original document. PDF documents can also incorporate hypertext, Web links, audio and c--", video, and more.

the tool designed for the job at hand. an HTML option under their Save As or Export wi thoutJumping through hoops This is wheredesktop publishing programs commands. Another way is to use a program HTML was designed to follow the unwritten come in. The main advantage of desktop pub- specifically designed to create Web pages from Internet credo of usability on any platform; in Pu lling lt all together

lishing software over a word processor is that s cratch, shielding you from the HTML itself and theory, every up-to-date Web browser should Yo u may h ave noticed a trend running '"- ' you have more control over everything, espe- allowing you to work visually. In either case, understand the established HTML standards. t h r o ugh this article so far: creating something

cially these key items: where you place when the HTML file is saved, the-program gen-

Wh i l e this is true, the same Web page can for one medium doesn't preclude the same ',

objects, how you manipulate those objects, c rates the necessary tags and saves any required still look different on two different browsers, material being used for another. A document;-'';-$

and how the final output will be handled. files (graphics can't be embedded in HIML — it's due to minor differences in how the HTML created for paper can be exported to HTML, or,Each object is a separate entity unless you decide to link it in some way to another. The

p u re ASCII, remember?) on itsown. code is interpreted and variations in user set- reproduced as a PDF. PDF files are often disThis a pproach works weII for some, but t i n gs. On top of t h is, the browser wars t r i buted over the Web, which uses HTML. PDF~„ ,'

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gram's features.

preting what you' ve created.. Any program lished HTML specification — ironically, mainly been thought of yet. should take extra spacesout.of your text, since in the area of layout and design. One aspect of this is "repurposing," ortak-

the HTML specification doesn>t allow for more Thi s has led to many Web page designers ing something created for one purpose and Working theWeb HTML is the underlying language of the t han one space at a time-(on the=other hand, t earing their hair out in frustration, since they m o difying it for another. For example, you ~~:=World Wide Web. It was originally designed to i f y ou put a blank line into your page, thepro- d o n't have the level of control they'd like.

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besimplebutelegant,ameansoftaking ASCII gram shouldn't decide to make it bigger or How can you make your headline or image processor and generate a Web page from the play off the body text's typeface if you can't original file. Another aspect is what marketing text and adding commands ("tags") for some smaller or to remove it altogether). minor formatting and, most importantly, cre-

HTML h as evolved quite a bit in the last c o ntrol the typeface? Even the best designers people like to call synergy: say, a magazine;: ~

ating links to other documents. For instance: <B>wascailywabbit<IB> in HTML would come out as wascslly siabbit

few years, and many designers have discov- can do littlemore than accept the limitations article that mentions an accompanying Web

.+4'~ ered their authoring programs haven't kept up i n herent to HTML 'and check their pages on s i te, which may contain related PDFs. as quickly with new developments. For d i f ferentbrowsersatdifferentsettingsinorder The p o i nt is, these media still have vast,:.-'„> ' instance, there was anoticeable delay between to catch any unexpected glitches. untapped possibilities, which can be mixed and "';.'.;:„ in a Web browser; the <8> tag activates th e time that tables were introduced to the This i s where Adobe's PDF comes in. This m atchedtocomplementeachother. Thepoten' -

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boldface, and <iB> deactivates it. (This should HTML spec and the time various programs format can best be described as the screen ver- tial of HTML is still being explored, and the PDF ':<. be causing flashbacks for peopie who have incorporated them. Also, there are additional sion of the PostScript page description lan- format is constantly being supplemented with used WordStar and WordPerfect under DOS.) elements to Web page design, such as script- guage for printers. In its simplest form, creat- utilities from third-party vendors. Even the milIn some ways, HTML matches the description of word processors I gave above, since any tags — including those for graphics, audio, and video — are incorporated into the flow of the text. Although HTML can be created or edited

in g and Java applications, 'that some author- i n g a PDF file is as easy as printing. Rather than outputting to paper, a PDF file is created, ing tools can't handle properly. As a r e sult, many programs let the user p r eserving the original document's fonts, s w itch to the raw HTML source and edit it s t r ucture, and formatting. d i rectly, just to make those additions or subtle PDF f i les can be viewed with the freely dis-

lenia-old medium of paper continues to hold surprises. If you' ve got something to say, now is an exciting time to say it. CI Emru Townsend's first publishing venture was a crude-

in any text editor, only patient or picky people tweaks a page might need (whether or not t ributable Adobe Acrobat Reader, but creating ly drawncomic book hetried to sell to classmates (including myself) create Web sites this way.: your authoring program likes your changes is the files requires the Adobe Acrobat package. when he was 11. Youcan ask him about his other For the less code-inclined, there are several dif- a n other matter). Pctfectionists quickly discov- Since a PDF file can be generated from any publishing efforts at emru@cam.org.

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CATA lobbies for measures to increase tech-skills supply OTTAWA (NB) — Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) is encouraged by the Ontario government's response to its challenge to "double the pipeline" of workers with technology skills. CATA hopes to extend the campaign nationwide. The association, which represents high-technology f i r ms, asked the provincial government during pre-budget consultations to take several measures to double the enrollment in computing science, computing engineering, and electrical engineering programs in universities. CATA president John Reid was pleased with the response, saying that both the governing and opposition parties supported CATA's proposals. CATA asked the province to fund a Double the Pipeline Fund with $7.5-million this year and a total of $55.7 million over four years, and to lift restrictions on how universities may shift funding among different programs, a move that could clear the way for money to be diverted from other areasto finance expanded computing and e ngineering programs. CATA is also calling on industry to contribute at least $2.3 million per year to the fund, and to provide cooperative education positions. It wants universities to contribute as well, and to provide infrastructure for the expanded programs. "We' re going to try to replicate thi s i n ea c h of the provinces," Reid said, "except as you know i n e a c h o f the provinces there's a different route to get there." According to CATA, Ontario alone will need more than 56,000 new workers in the information technology field in the next five years, but w il l p r oduce only 14,000 qualified graduates. Contact: CATA,http:!/www.cata.ca

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server starts at $3,999. The AS/400e Server 170 starts at $16,500, and the entry-level 150 Continued o» page 10

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errors. Experts say that companies not already features allow all users to share one companywell under way on correcting these problems may not have enough time left, and the impact could be serious or even devastating for some firms. The Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada's largest exchange, sent a letter to listed companies recently, advising them that they must include material information about the implications of the Year 2000 problem for their information systems and their businesses in annual reports mailed to shareholders after April I of this year. It also urges that such information be included where possible in reports issued before April 1. The TSE's requirement is the first such directive by a Canadian stock exchange, said Ralph Shay, vice-president of company listings and regulation, and may be the first in the world. Shay said he did not know how many 1SE-listedcompanies have already

wide database, with a database administrator controlling which users and groups have access to what information. The single user price o f M a ximizer Enterprise 4.0 is $249.95. Existing Maximizer

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Contact:Maximizer,http://www.maximizer corn/ Smart andfriendly introduces high-speed ColtOIN towers CHATSWORTH, Calif. (NB) — CD-ROM servers are being used increasingly in corporate networking environments for storage. Now Smart and Friendly Inc. says it has begun shipping a line of 32x multi-read CD-ROM towers for large and smail local area networks (LANs) and enterprise systems, The company says its CD-ROM towers provide high-speed online storage for applica-

included Year 2000 discussions in their finan- tions or data, and are configured with four, cial reports, but omy guess is very few."

INaximizer Enterprise 4.0 introduced VANCOUVER (NB) — Maximizer Technologies Inc. has introduced Maximizer Enterprise 4.0, which combines contact management with an opportunity management system and group

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enhanced architecture for a faster, more comprehensive ability to detect and stop network abuse.He said RealSecure 2.0 is analogous to an "intelligent" CCTV security camera. "It provides a critical layer of protection that complements static security technologies such as firewalls, and ensures that users' networks are protected across all devices and layers of the enterprise. RealSecure 2.0 offers unattend-

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According to Hayes, WTO members could allow that growth, projected to reach some $300 billion a year by 2000, by refraining from imposing t axes or border customers duties on worldwide e-commerce. "Today, no member considers that electronic transmissions are important for customs purposes and, thus, no member imposes customs duties for electronic transmissions," she said. "Our proposal is to codify this practice in the WTO."

Although many of the world's developed nations in Europe, as well as Japan, supported Hayes' proposal, developing nation representatives expressed doubts about voluntarily avoiding a potential major source of revenue so soon. The fear, many developing nation diplomats said, was that the U.S. was attempting to promote U.S. business at the expense of developing nations' business. Hayes, however, said the U.S. proposal would not limit the rights or abilities of nations to tax goods sold over the Internet. Hayes said that because no country — including the U.S.— currently imposes customs taxes on goods ordered electronically, the WTO would merely maintain the status quo. WTO members agreed to continue studying the US proposal and its implications. ISS unveils automated

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you' ve created. "When LCD panels first came out," says Chan, "there was a very good market for them because people quickly realized the benefits and flexibility of being able to create presentations on their computers. That's when PowerPoint and other presentation software packages started to really tap into the momentum of presentation technology." LCDs don't create "active" light, which is why it's necessary for portable computers to incorporate a backlighting system. The bulb in

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plasma display, has kindly provided this explanation of gas plasma technology. It begins with a glass plate onto which a fine

grid of raised ribs is applied, A coating of red, Presentations (Slides Er Sound Plus multimegreen and blue phosphor material is deposited into the spaces of the grid. Each set of three adjacen t cells, one of each color, constitutes a

dia presentation software specifically geared

neon or xenon — inside. Electrodes are embedded in the glass plates. Selectively applying voltages to the electrodes causes the gas inside to discharge ultraviolet light, which in turn causes the phosphor to fluoresce, sending colored light out to the viewer. The individual cell structure and selective voltage technology enable

ware package containing all the tools you

toward consumers, schools, etc.) and Lance Bailey of NEC Technologies Canada (projecpixel. A second glass plate is placed on top of tors, notebooks, etc.), Overall, you should be looking for a softthe assembly, trapping a gas — either helium, need to organize your ideas, illustrate them, then professionally deliver them. It goes without saying too (though I' ll say it any-

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the plasma display to produce even illumina- software with enough flexibility to shuffle tion and exceptional image quality at large- your material around while keeping it organized in case you want to make several, or screen sizes, Where that might sound very much like customized, presentations that use some the way LCD works, the key difference with common materials. gas plasma is that it's an actual light emitting

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$oftware checttlist Make sure that, in "slideshow" mode, your

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plays are comparably lighter and smaller and, like gas plasma displays, flat and light enough

your files as HTML (hypertext markup language)documents, which means you can actually store your presentation on the internet then tap into the site with your computer and projector from wherever

to be mounted on the wall if permanent p lacement is what yo u h ave i n m i n d . However, a 20-inch-plus LCD will cost thou-

you are. Or, even better, contact individu-

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Make sure your package integrates with others, or at least recognizes a wide variety

($20,000 or more). All in all, any of CRT, LCD or gas plasma monitors are going to be best suited to a permanent presentation environment of only limited size.

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do remotely via PC A nywhere CE. By installing PC Anywhere32 on a desktop machine at the press room at the Lotusphere conference, I was able to dial in to my desktop at home and get full access to file transfer capabilities. Using this capability, I was able leave copies of digital pictures — taken a few hours previously at Disney World with a

digital camera — on the screen for my family to see!

Express or Outlook in order to do this. Being able to use a Windows CE handheld to dial in Additional requirements to a desktop computer capable of running I have one caveat in all this. The technology 4

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Ironically, almost an y o t he r m a j or Anywhere sessions over the Internet to a speinstead of Internet service provider's email system would cific IP (Internet protocol) address — have been capable ofrunning on Pocket requiring me to use a telephone to do it. Outlook as it supports standard POP3 Internet Having the connection hasted by Wave mail. But because I was using MSN, I had to meant that I could make the connection via look at a solution, the Internet (thereby eliminating long-disThe second issue that was important to me tance phone charges), and that I could leave

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ports these modes is, however, available from

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SureStore CD-1Afrlter Plus 7110e (external; a 7110I internal model is also available). From: Hewlett-Packard Availability: the 7110i and 7110eare available in U.S. end Canadian retail markets oniy and include the LivePlx Photo Enhancer andOrganizer software. Other than that, the 7110i and 7110eare identical to the 7100I and 7100e. Suggested retail price: $870 (7110e), $712 (7110i)

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track, (Believe me, this piays hell with the

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from tube radios of the 1920s to transistor sets of 1960s. This site stands out from the rest due to his ARP Directory, an ambitious project aimed at cataloging all vintage Moses Znaimer has a passion for old television sets, and created this museum. It includes a vir-

(httpJ/www.geocities.corn/Colosseum/4884/more3.ht inl), Keith also created the second site on the W eb devoted t o an t i qu e r a d i o sets

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being secret shareholders of Microsoft, or biased towards worship of The Mighty Bill. Nothing could be further from the truth. R at h e r ,

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scrambling over the remaining 12 to UNIX operating system. 14 percent of the market. Digital's senior management foreThe number of Internet service saw that Windows NT had a chance providers (ISPs) has dwindled in many to become a big part of the enter-

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its Fortune 1,000 Hard drive makers are consolidating, along clients. This vote of with modem manufacturers, graphics card confidence from Digital makers, and CD-ROM manufacturers. What is was a huge boost to Microsoft's new about the current wave of consolidation credibility in the corporate market, is that in many cases it is the relatively new Nil worth literally billions of dollars to brand name PC companies that are growing, Microsoft's chief executive officer Bill Gates. at the expense of both ends'of the market. On trend towards fewer and bigger companies dominating the mainstream of information If a famously smart, cool and reliable compa- the one hand, older compariies at the high technology. This corporate concentration is a ny like Digital was willing to bet big time on end (former mainframe and workstation makc ommon, and u n pleasant, feature of a NT, that was good enough for many corporate ers like IBM, Sun and Silicon Graphics) have a "mature" industry in the capitalist system. information officers. NT was in. lot to lose. As well, growth of brand name PC Digital became the biggest vendor of NT companies is at the expense of very low-end, There were hundreds of carmakers in Canada and the United States in the first quar- server licences, and trained thousands of tech- low-priced "clone" PC makers. l ter of the 20th century; now there are only a nicians and sales people to support Windows few. A recent Scientific American article exam- NT in corporate computing operations. To Pnttiny their brand on the market ined Microsoft's growth in terms of a theory of Compaq, the combination of Digital's UNIX End users' desire for security is part of what "natural monopoly." For a bunch of reasons, expertise and the best Windows NT sales drives the trend towards monopoly. During not least the frustration of consumers with the machine in the world was irresistible. For the late '80s and early '90s, it appeared that chaos and lack of standardization that comes under US$10 billion, Compaq has bought a clone PC makers had the "first tier" PC rnakwith a multitude of proprietary, incompatible highway into the heart of corporate computers (such as Compaq and IBM) on the run. The products, there is often a tendency for the ing around the world. Over the next decade, cloners could slap together a boxful of "parts p rofi t a b l e and i n fl uential, its ever-rising level of wealth and power is part of a general trend in the-computer industry: a

a few brand names, at inflated prices. Most significantly, innovation can be strangled by

monopoly. IBM, Apple and Xerox for example, all had marvelous research and development facilities, but attempts to bring revolutionary new products to market were often shot down or bungled by i n ternal political wrangling.

Managers and stockholders in each company who benefited from the existing cash cow product lines wouldn't allow cheaper, better, competing products to emerge from internal research and development. IBM was well on the way to monopolizing the computing industry when its cart was upset by the uncontrollable rise of the PC.

'Thedead hand of the state One alternative to computing's free market

turning into a very unfree monopoly or oligopoly (ade' facto monopoly by a handful ol.

market to bet on one vendor or technology, Compaq will work on its Digital customer of the week," and beat the brand names in companies) is a government-regulated market that prevents any player from becoming too making it a de facto standard. base, aiming to switch it from UNIX and VMS price/performance with ease. This happened in the PC sound card market, with Creative Labs' Sound Blaster line, A standard may not be the "best" technology (think of the Beta versus YHS videocassette war in the 1970s and 1980s), but once a majority'of the market has committed to one

supplier, or one operating system or onecom-

to Windows NT. I had a chance to ask Bill Gates about the effect of th e Compaq/Digital merger on Windows NT and UNIX a few days after the merger occurred. He said that UNIX would be around for quite awhile, but Windows NT would definitely get a boost from this particular consolidation. When I taiked to Peter Ciceri, the new head of Compaq Canada (a

However, as the concern over total cost of porate customers insisted on buying security

intended to absorb Digital's product lines and other assets into the Compaq organization and brand name. This buyout followed other Compaq acquisitions, including the purchase of Tandem Computers seven months ago, and the purchase of a range of networking and computer component makers over the past twb years. Compaq is now the second largest computer firm in the world, after IBM.

And the beat goes on... Consolidation is rapidly occurring in other sectors of computing. Adobe, the graphics software giant, is gobbling up market share from long time competitors such as Ottawa's Corel Corp., and desktop publishing rival Quark Inc. Adobe has switched its major focus from the traditional Mac graphics market to Windows and to the Internet, the two sectors experiencing the most new growth in graphics software.

the history of government management of

by buying from big brand name companies economies is characterized by all the evils ol with good support and warranty programs, and reputations for quality. The little guys in the PC field are increasingly squeezed into the

capitalist monopolies, plus many more that are unique to governments (which can easily

become economic and political monopolies, low-price, low-margin entry-level consumer indifferent to either the market or the elec-

puting platform (PC versus Mac), it is increasPC ghetto. ingly difficult for other brands to compete. The slogan of the personal computer industry ma'n bringing plenty of mainframe computing experience from years with Sperry/Univac, Thie monopoly tax is increasingly "get big or die." Hewlett-Packard and Tandem Computers), he We all pay a price whenever an industry was very straightforward about Compaq's goal. matures and becomes concentrated into a few How to get big In February, the computer industry buzzed Compaq, he said, is now poised to compete gigantic firms. Huge firms often lose sight of with the news that Digital Equipment Corp., aggressively in the entire spectrum of comput- customer needs, and try to force products on one of the most respected names in large scale ing from mainframes through servers, worksta- the market, rather than listening to what peocorporate computing, had been bought by tions, business PCs and networks, home com- ple want. Past a certain point, customers' real choices may become very limited, reduced to one of the Windows PC upstarts, Houston- puting, notebooks, and handheld devices. based Compaq.

For US$9.6 billion, Compaq bought out Digital's shareholders, and announced that it

large. Sometimes, careful and sensible govern-

ownership (TCO) of PCs increased, large cor- ment intervention is a good thing. However,

torate).

The best remaining hope for preventing a fossilized, user-unfriendly PC industry controlled by a handful of greedy, doddering corporate giants is rapid, continuous change. As long as there is a flood of unexpected technology appearing out of tiny startup compa-

nies, research labs, basements and garages across the globe, none of computing's new

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