First Internet Industry Conference Held; Zona Research Conference Attracts 300.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 1996--Zona Research Inc., the leading provider of information and advice to the Internet industry, hosted "THE Intranet and Internet Industry Conference" which entertained over 300 attendees from around the world. Key executives from high-tech companies gathered for two days to listen to how organizations are implementing Intranet/Internet technologies to meet real enterprise needs. In addition, Zona Research revealed some of its latest research and analysis about Intranet/Internet trends and opportunities. Conference speakers covered a variety of topics which provided attendees with an in-depth perspective of this exploding market. Commerce and the Internet, security issues, collaborative computing, and the development and deployment of business-critical applications were just some of the issues focused on at the conference. Hugh Brownstone brownstone, red to brown variety of sandstone. Its unusual color is caused in some instances by the presence of red iron oxide which acts as a cement, binding the sand grains together. , vice president of Technology at IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. America, spoke about the computing paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm. that is occurring within the corporate world. "If organizations don't manage this shift properly or understand what this shift is all about, then they won't get much from it," Brownstone said. In discussing security issues and the Internet/Intranet, Andrew Black Andrew Black may refer to:
"This conference was the crowning event of our first year of covering the Internet and Intranet," said Stephen Auditore, president of Zona Research. "During that year, we were the first company to identify the Intranet as an opportunity discrete from the Internet, while also providing the seminal quantification of the opportunities. "We were also the first market assessment company to recognize and analyze the potential of Microsoft in the Intranet/Internet industry. We believe that this Intranet/Internet conference solidifies our position as THE franchise player in the Intranet/Internet market." The conference also included presentations on Zona Research's latest analysis of the Internet and Intranet markets. One of the more interesting findings revealed was the breakdown of Web servers by platform. Zona reported the majority of Web server software is still on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms with 52 percent of all Web servers predominately on Sun and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) UNIX systems. NT's presence as a Web server platform has increased significantly to 42 percent due to the popularity of the Intel hardware platform and Microsoft's bundling of their IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. Web server, according to the study. -0-
Web Server Platforms
1185 Total Servers
UNIX 51%
MacOS 4%
NT 41%
Other less than 3%
Netware less than 1%
-0- In addition, Zona Research released its most current browser census which identified that the browser market is currently coalescing coalescing (kō  les´ing),n a joining or fusing of parts. on Netscape and Microsoft. Netscape Navigator now commands an 83 percent market share as the primary browser in use and Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. has increased its share to 8 percent. Zona Research Inc. provides information and advice to the Internet industry. The company delivers information on market trends via subscription services and reports and offers a variety of confidential and custom advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal . For more information about Zona Research's products and services, please contact Doug Rutherford at Zona Research, 900 Veterans Blvd., Suite 500, Redwood City, Calif. 94063. Telephone: 415/568-5700; Fax: 415/306-2420. More information about Zona Research is available on its World Wide Web page at http://www.zonaresearch.com. CONTACT: Zona Research Inc., Redwood City Lee Kurnoff, 415/568-5700 |
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