Sun Labs is an engine of innovation that has kept Sun at the forefront
of network computing for more than a decade. A cornerstone of Sun's
multi-billion-dollar R&D investment, Sun Labs is a magnet for top
engineering and research talent worldwide.
"People always ask me where the Internet is going" says Ed Zander, in
an article on Sun's web site. "And I must admit I love to watch their
facial expressions when I say quite definitively, 'It's going away.'
The Internet is going away in the same sense that electricity and
plumbing did in the 20th Century -- out of sight and out of mind."
StarOffice 5.2 Calc Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the spreadsheet
component of StarOffice, the world's #1 open source productivity suite.
From the basics to advanced data analysis, it covers all the features
you need to get productive quickly.
Sun's new Sun Fire 4800 server has raised the bar for Internet
performance. With a record 8,739 simultaneous connections, the
SPECweb99 benchmark results indicate that the Sun Fire 4800 system is
the fastest web server in the world, demonstrating better performance
than both IBM and HP.
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has been selected by Sun as a Sun
Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments.
The Sun Center of Excellence in HPC Environments is a collaborative
project between OSC, Ohio State University (OSU), University of
Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and University of
Akron.
Sun's has made product end of life (EOL) announcements for the Fast
Write Cache (as a stand-alone product line), the X1334A 6U cPCI Quad
FastEthernet (QFE) Rear Access Card with PICMG2, and MicroPayflex Smart
Cards.
Sun has repriced the 128, 256, and 512 MB memory x-options for Desktop
and Workgroup Server systems and associated memory upgrades. The 1 GB
option for the Sun Enterprise 3500 - 10000 systems and 2 GB memory
options for the Sun Enterprise 3500 - 6500 systems have also been repriced.
Sun and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. teamed up for a
one-of-a-kind demonstration at the Spring 2001 Storage Networking World
(SNW) Conference and Expo in Palm Desert, California. In a
joint initiative, the two companies have developed an implementation of
a Common Information Model (CIM) prototype for storage area networks
(SANs) using Brocade Fabric Access, the API to the Brocade Fabric
operating system (Fabric OS).
Sun joined more than 50 other storage networking vendors to showcase
storage networking solutions for enterprise messaging at the Spring
2001 Storage Networking World (SNW) Conference and Expo.
L9 & L20 Tape Library Bundles now include VERITAS backup software.
These bundles combine hardware with backup software at a very
attractive price. They offer a significant discount compared to the list
price for standalone products.
Sun has a number of technical sites and developer communities in which
you can participate. The Technical Sites & Developer Communities web
page provides links to them.
All Forte Developer language products have runtime checking (RTC) built
into the debugger. RTC lets you automatically detect runtime errors in
an application during the development phase. Runtime errors include
memory access errors and memory leak errors. It
also helps you to monitor memory usage.
Distributed make (dmake) is a superset of the make utility and allows
you to concurrently distribute the process of building large projects,
consisting of many programs, over a number of workstations or servers
and, in the case of multiprocessor systems, over multiple CPUs. The
dmake utility is included in every Forte Developer product.
Education thought leaders from around the world convened in San
Francisco in March to discuss education, technology, and reform at
the Worldwide Education & Research Conference. Transcripts and
presentations are available on Sun's web site.
One of the largest technical universities in Europe has selected Sun
Fire 6800 servers running Solaris as well as Sun's GRID Engine
networking software to build one of the largest supercomputers in the
world.
Sun's Global Education and Research Group has announced the formation
of a new Special Interest Group in Computational Biology for all Sun's
education and research customers. The CB-SIG aims to keep this academic
community up-to-date with relevant Sun technology and open standards
initiatives, to provide support for the user community and a forum to
discuss recent scientific developments.
Universidad Tecnolgica de Mexico (UNITEC) has been named to the Sun
Campus Incubator Program. UNITEC is the second largest private
university in Mexico and the first Latin American university to
participate in this strategic program.
The current issue of Sun Journal focuses on the architecture that must
be built and put into place for smart, anytime, anywhere, always-on
services -- and some of the technologies, such as XML, underlying this
architecture.
Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2, by Enrique Vargas, Joseph
Bianco, and David Deeths, is the newest book in the Sun BluePrint
series. This BluePrint describes elements that affect availability and
introduces best practices that promote good work practices. The
information in this book helps increase availability at the datacenter
level or at the single server level.
For developers and managers using Java,
there is a new community designed to address these problems: the
iSavvix Community web site, which offers information sharing, technical
learning, software exchange, and tools.
Nextel Communication's introduction of Motorola handsets based on Java
2 Micro Edition and Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) software
marks a new chapter for wireless data services in the United States.
Nextel is now positioned to go beyond browser-based services and
introduce a wide array of consumer and customized enterprise wireless
services.
"Developers attending this year's JavaOne conference will discover the
evolving world of Java technology-based GUI applets and applications
for the PC and the web" says Thomas Ulrich. "Prominent computer
scientists and engineers will lead more than 45 technical sessions that
explore ways to develop technology for core clients, add elements of
multimedia, and deploy groundbreaking applications across the web."
Preparations for the 2001 JavaOne conference are kicking into high
gear, and those who are looking forward to the event should be
delighted. With seven technology-packed topics and with session
speakers representing leaders in the industry, developers should get
their money's worth of innovative ideas, cutting-edge technology, and
inspirational application development.
Both
business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) transactions
are skyrocketing as the drive for instant access to information for
customers, employees, partners, and vendors persists. As companies move
their legacy data online, more and more are turning to Java
technology, the standards-based architecture designed from the ground
up to deliver cross-platform portability.
With approximately 35,000 downloads of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) SDK 1.3 Beta to date, the latest version of the J2EE platform
has been embraced by the Java user community.
At the Embedded Systems Conference, Sun announced the immediate
availability of two key Java technologies for the embedded market:
completion of the Java platform for Linux
and availability of Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) for VxWorks.
Kyberpass Exchange TrustPlatform is a comprehensive security management solution
for web-based B2B and B2C applications operating within an enterprise
extranet, web portal, or B2B exchange that applies the necessary level
of trust to transactions with customers and partners.
CorPoint Check, the first module in Politzer & HANEY's new CorPoint
Enterprise Suite, allows a financial institution's
corporate clients to manage check disbursement activity, including
interactive stop payments, ARP issue maintenance, image-enabled check
inquiry, and positive pay over the web.
CUseeMe Networks's CUseeMe Videoware end-to-end
software solution is a complete rich media communications environment
that interfaces with existing messaging and collaboration environments.
CUseeMe Videoware includes both client and server technologies for
enterprise-wide deployment of web-based voice and video communications
and group collaboration to the desktop.
NewMonics, Inc. has debuted PERC for
Intelligent Networks, an advanced high-level platform based on the
company's proprietary groundbreaking Java technology and tools,
augmented with components necessary for creating
intelligent network elements.
Sybase, Inc. has begun shipping Sybase Replication Server 12.1 to allow
businesses to more quickly and easily move and synchronize information
across the enterprise.
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