CD HP is providing a free HP Year 2000 PC and NetServer Resource CD-ROM to users of Vectras, Brios, Kayaks, OmniBook notebooks, Pavilions, Jornada Handhelds, and NetServers. HP will ship it free of charge. The combined solution allows HP tape drives to emulate a bootable device during a system reboot.
Users simply press the drive's eject button while power cycling the device.
EST's BRU for Linux Version 15.1 supports HP's latest series of 4MM DAT drives, including the SureStore DAT40, SureStore DAT24, and SureStore DAT8 drives. BackWeb's Push Initiative Push technology is experiencing a revival, and BackWeb Technologies, a provider of push products, is taking advantage of the renewed interest by advocating an initiative called Proactive Web. The initiative aims to establish push as a de facto standard technology for the Internet. Users are notified by pop-up alerts that critical information has been sent but can continue to work without interruption. The system closes the loop by sending notifications confirming that users have received and acted upon the information.