February 1998 / Features

Jackpot at Comdex Best of Show Best Multimedia Hardware/Software Best System Best Server System Best Portable Be st Network Infrastructure	You and nearly a quarter-million of your closest friends converge once a year on Las Vegas to witness the spectacle that is Comdex. - by BYTE Editors
Making Components Portable with JavaBeans Life of a Bean Bean Events Enterprise Beans The Coming of the VisualAge Safe Beans Bridging Beans and Active X Future Beans Bean Builders Lotus Machine Grinds Out Beans	JavaBeans, Java's component architecture, is far more than just a collection of components for the client. - by David S. Renshaw
OLAP Omnipresent OLAP for Spreadsheets OLAP's Former Difficulties Different Styles of OLAP Embedding OLAP OLAP Add-Ins to Spreadsheets OLAP APIs	Once strictly a big-iron application, OLAP is moving to desktop spreadsheets, business software, and the Web. - by Nigel Pendse
The Internet Reinvented The Proposed NGI Time Line VBNS Network Backbone The U.S.'s First GigaPOP Technology the Next Internet Needs	Tomorrow's Net, driven again by researchers and academia, will include new backbones, new protocols, and new applications. - by Daniel P. Dern and Scott Mace

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