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Editorial

Contrary to our usual habits, and because the contribution deadline was too early to print a definitive version fully approved by the management, you will not find in this edition the plans concerning the annual CERN shutdown. All necessary information for the users will be printed in the Weekly Bulletin as soon as the details have been finalised.

However much important information is part of this edition, and specifically let me emphasize:

• The official announcement of the "End of the VXCERN Service", which is linked to the end of the LEP data taking. Users will find all necessary information in order to migrate to another central platform.
• A presentation of the DataGrid project, a large European collaboration, which will probably occupy many computer scientists in the coming years.
• IT/PDP plans concerning the future computing environment for the Scientific community, and the migration from RISC-based hardware towards Linux.

None of our readers have probably noticed that next February (strictly speaking February 15th, 2001) will be the 35th anniversary of the CNL! For this reason we propose to set the next deadline for contributions on that date, in order to celebrate this birthday. A call for special contributions will be launched, aiming at a mono-graphic issue (2001-001 - Millenium Edition and 35th birthday). We will welcome and encourage contributions from the technical staff having been longer at CERN, who can offer their own (and personal) vision on the evolution of Computing throughout these years.

Let me just finish this editorial by wishing you, as shown by the picture at the top, a

Nicole Crémel,
CNL Editor, IT/User Support