Sentence examples for network operating system from inspiring English sources
That's when he came up with the idea for FlexSwitch, an open source network operating system that gives network operators more control and flexibility than traditional networking hardware vendors like Juniper and Cisco.
Sun has always held tight control over Solaris, its proprietary network operating system for server computers.
Founded in 1983, Novell rose to prominence for its network operating system, Netware.
The product now also runs on other major versions of Unix and on Microsoft's Windows NT network operating system.
It's crawling with features that work only on networks driven by, for example, Microsoft Windows Server (a $4,000 network operating system).
Creating a network operating system -- an idea that Microsoft once opposed -- is a real shift in strategy, and a particularly daring one because it strikes at the heart of the bitterly contested federal antitrust lawsuit that Microsoft is now appealing.
Once the hottest networking company around, Novell has seen its lead in network operating systems vanish like morning dew over the past five years as MicrosoftsWindows NT became the system of choice for corporate America.
Even if Microsoft improves the product, PC operating systems are inherently more fragile than, say, telephone network operating systems because they have to manage a far greater variety of tasks and interact with other programmers' software.
The flaw, one of three announced yesterday by Microsoft, affects a fundamental building block of network operating systems known as Abstract Syntax Notation One, and helps govern how machines communicate with one another and how they establish secure communications.
The source of the problem, he insists, lies in the operating systems, few of which were built with security in mind.To that end, a number of firms that supply network operating systems, notably Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, have launched initiatives aimed at improving their security.
Sun already competes against Bill Gates' empire in network operating systems.
