A REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL DATA CORP. (IDC) Asia/Pacific group revealed that Asian businesses are moving ahead with plans to deploy new Internet/intranet technology and expand the functions of current server capabilities, despite the region's economic woes.

The report, "The Internet/Intranet Server Market in Asia Pacific, 1997-2002," said that shipments of commercial Internet/intranet software are forecast to increase from 68,000 units in 1997 to 194,000 units by 2002 for the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan).

Shipments of remote-access servers also showed considerable growth, increasing 81 percent in revenue in 1997.

Korea, Australia, PRC and Taiwan were the four largest markets, and Taiwan's two largest ISPs had several large-scale purchases, which boosted the country's Internet growth alone to 194 percent for the year.

JUNE 29-JULY 1: The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., will host the 2nd annual 1394 developers' conference, and the accompanying site features information on the technical workshops and exhibits centered around the IEEE 1394 standard.

EE TIMES ONLINE offers RealAudio clips of the DAC panel, "IC design productivity and the Internet." Hear Raul Camposano, chief technology officer of Synopsys, Jim Rowson, Cadence fellow, and others.

"I DON'T THINK it's about technical problems-we can solve all of them. It's about change-and it's about whether we as a community are open to embrace change or not.

"We've been though a lot of changes through the years, and that's when designers get to drop a lot of garbage from the last generation of technology.

"The Internet is a whole new platform, and that gives us an opportunity to rethink-that's the most important opportunity we have."

-Richard Newton, EE professor at Berkeley, at DAC, on the Web and IC productivity.

MICROCOM TECHNOLOGIES (New York), a distributor of electronic components, is offering Partminer, a Web-based purchasing product, free of charge in the initial stages. Partminer allows users to search databases of 20 distributor sites, and is targeted for OEM buyers, product managers, and engineers.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES' Elemedia and Bell Labs are offering their new release of H.323 to developers free of charge. The standard looks to define how various multimedia formats can be exchanged across packet-switched networks.

THE IEEE 1394 developer's conference is in full swing this week, and the standard's trade association also offers a nifty Web site that's easy to navigate and offers plenty of information-even for non-members.

The 1394 TA now has over 180 members, including Sony, Intel, Microsoft and Compaq. Some analysts say that renewed interest in a multimedia serial bus that dates back 10 years has to do with its ability to link more than 60 devices, and may even start to encroach on the PCI realm. Wintel players will require it as part of the entertainment PC spec early next year.

The site offers not only the 1394 specs but also a newsletter, PDF white papers, a Japanese-language section, and links to related workgroup "reflectors," contacts at TI, Philips, Molex, and Adaptec.

Also find a "products gallery," which offers links to showcase Web sites that feature consumer-electronics devices using the 1394 spec.

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