The MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards (eBAs), the premier awards honoring
successful innovation in eBusiness, announced the 40 finalists for the
2001 awards. The final winners will be announced the evening of April 23
in Kresge Auditorium on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Three of Europe's most prominent retailers can now be heard online
through an exclusive Sun webcast of the keynote presentations at the
Global Retail Technology Forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Sun and PeopleSoft Inc. have joined forces to create a multi-million dollar
strategic alliance to deliver a scalable, Internet-ready customer relationship
management (CRM) solution to better serve the communications and brokerage
industries.
Awarenex, a prototype at Sun Laboratories, integrates
PDAs, pagers, cell phones, laptops, and desktops with advanced
telephony capabilities, instant messaging, and a calendar service to
keep workgroups connected anytime, anywhere.
On February 8, 2001, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy spoke before
the National Press Club in Washington, DC. McNealy commented on a wide
range of issues facing D.C.'s policymakers, and presented his vision of
the future of the "post-PC world."
Find out how Sun can help take your data center to the nth. Sun
introduces a new class of system -- the Midframe Server -- combining
mainframe capabilities, Sun innovation, and midrange affordability.
Data Center to the nth, originally broadcast Wednesday, March 21, is
now viewable online:
Sun Fire servers have captured the lead in Java technology
performance. These new SPECjbb2000 (Java Business Benchmark)
server-side performance results are world records in Java technology
performance and beat the previous results for this benchmark posted by
IBM by up to 35%.
You can take the Sun Fire Midframe Server Interactive Tour and
learn how Sun delivers a brand new class of system -- the midframe --
combining mainframe capabilities and midrange affordability from
a link on Sun's web site.
Built around Sun's powerful, award-winning UltraSPARC III processor and
Solaris 8, the Sun Fire server family brings mainframe-class
availability, superior balanced performance, and excellent flexibility
to the midrange. These systems deliver mainframe-class reliability and
predictability in a web-enabled open model, while helping protect your
investment in existing hardware, applications, and data.
Read the article, data center (n), on Sun's web site:
Sun has completed the acquisition of HighGround Systems, a leading
developer of storage resource management (SRM) solutions for storage
network environments. The integration of HighGround's products and
expertise will expand Sun's offerings to include new storage resource
management capabilities and multi-platform tools for easy management of
data and efficient control of resources.
The HighGround Storage Resource Manager (SRM) product family is a suite
of web-based management solutions that support a wide range of storage
technologies and applications.
In an attempt to formally define what the NetBeans[tm] open source
project is trying to achieve, and how Sun plans to achieve it, they've
come up with the NetBeans Roadmap.
The roadmap, a colorful representation of NetBeans' past, present, and
future, is accompanied by a vision statement and historical
information. As with any open source project, all decisions are made
by the community at large -- your comments are welcomed!
The benefits of building ecommerce software applications from
pretested, server-side Java components have taken a major step
forward. Development teams
now have access to a comprehensive palette of solution-building tools.
VERITAS, Oracle and Sun are jointly hosting two 1-hour, online
presentations and Q&A sessions for IS/IT professionals, system
architects, and developers on April 18th and 19th.
Administrating Web Servers, Security, & Maintenance Interactive
Workbook by Eric Larson, Brian Stephens is an attempt to bridge the gap
between textbook and reference manual. Reference manuals tend to be
frustrating to new students unfamiliar with the content, but typical
textbooks may not engage readers to try real-world exercises.
Published four times per year, this free, quarterly interactive
CD-ROM is a guide to the latest Solaris and Java products on the market.
Subscriptions are obtained by completing an web-based subscription form.
Delivering on the promise of Java technologies for the wireless market,
Sun and key players in the wireless industry, Nextel Communications,
Inc. and Motorola, Inc., have announced the first deployment of
Java-powered phones and services to consumers in the US.
CA-SIGS/101 Conferences, a division of 101communications, will provide
Sun's Java University program at SIGS/101 training events and make Sun
a premier sponsor of both the SIGS/101 XML One and Wireless One
conferences. The agreement positions SIGS/101 Conferences as the
current segment-specific conference producer offering the Java
University program.
Learning about the best practices in Internet security from Sun
Educational Services can help you develop a solid security strategy to
protect the critical information on your enterprise network. Sun offers
a suite of system security courses to help you quickly learn the
specific skills needed to make your Solaris[tm] system or an entire
network environment more secure.
VERITAS, Oracle, and Sun have collaborated to integrate the leading
server and OS platform, database, and data availability solutions. The
VERITAS Oracle Sun (VOS) Initiative has its own web site:
ISOPIA Inc. has announced the launch of the first Java-based mobile
learning (m-Learning) solution. ISOPIA's m-Learning offers complete
portability, total convenience, and economical access to learning
resources whenever they need them. ISOPIA is the only infrastructure
provider in the marketplace to offer both e-Learning and m-Learning
solutions purely based on Java, extending the delivery and management
of training to all device types.
XML Global Technologies, Inc., a product-focused, XML-powered,
e-business platform company, proudly announced the launch of its GoXML
Foundation product suite at the Gartner iEB B2B conference in New
York. GoXML Foundation is the first coordinated suite of XML tools that
solves important e-Business and Internet infrastructure problems such
as data search, data transformation and database activities.
Unikala LiveBiz 1.0, based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and
running on Solaris, is an advanced platform for e-business that
takes advantage of a high-performance distributed rules engine to
deliver a business view of web-based applications.
C-it Locate v. 3.0
Locations, Logistics, Asset Tracking, and Supply Chain Information
C-it Locate Software v 3.0 delivers everything needed to view
locations, logistics, asset tracking, and supply chain information on
any client, anywhere. With the release of C-it Locate v. 3.0,
ObjectFX has advanced a complex technology behind a simple concept:
the ability to see -- on any device -- where company assets are, or
where you need to go.
ScreamingMedia, Inc. and iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions have teamed up to
provide enterprises and service providers with fresh and relevant
ScreamingMedia content streamed seamlessly into the iPlanet Portal
Server platform, giving customers a cost-effective solution and
competitive edge in the market.
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