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...billion worldwide market for hardware alone. That market includes the servers themselves, which can be as bulky as an IBM mainframe or as slender as a cigarette carton, as well as storage devices. All this iron runs on a variety of software: operating systems and protocols from Unix to Linux and, increasingly, Windows. There are battles over whose protocols are open to adaptation (guess where Windows stands?) and whether there ought to be more standardization. But those conflicts are being resolved by a vast new parallel business called Web services, which encompasses the software and technical expertise that enable companies...
...Pieper's long career includes stints at Germany's Software AG, AT&T's Unix Systems, Tandem Computers and Philips...
When you type “fortune” at the fas% prompt, the UNIX fortune program will randomly retrieve a short, funny quote or longer historical or philosophical message from a large database. This database already exists in the basic program, but can be personally supplemented. Currently originating from the program NetBSD Fortune 1.4, epigrams are divided into categories that can be drawn upon. Typing “man fortune” reveals the array of fortune possibilities. For example, the command “fortune -l” specifies a long fortune...
...UNIX told...
...twist on Shuttleboy, a UNIX-based program set up by David Malan ’99 to help students navigate the notoriously confusing Harvard shuttle schedule, ShuttleGirl offers similar assistance...