Sun has reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2001,
which ended April 1, 2001.
Revenues for the third quarter were $4.095 billion, up 2% compared with
the third quarter of fiscal 2000. Orders for the third quarter were
$3.612 billion.
Sun is strengthening its commitment to the Service Provider community by
extending the SunTone Certification and Branding Program and
introducing new initiatives to help companies architect, build, certify,
and go-to-market with web-enabled services that meet high industry
standards.
Sun has presented the first SunTone Awards to outstanding contributors to
the SunTone Certification and Branding program. Digex's Charles Boyle
received the SunTone Technical Champion Award for his individual
contribution to the architectural specifications of the SunTone program.
BellSouth received the SunTone Marketing Award for the company's
outstanding use of SunTone certification in marketing initiatives.
Sun demonstrated its rock-solid commitment to driving
enterprise customers and increased profitability to service provider
partners when it rolled out a series of joint initiatives for those
partners at its SunTone + iForce Service Provider Conference on April
17-18.
Sun and ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.) have highlighted the advantage
of their combined technology with ATG's receipt of SunTone Program
Certification and unprecedented benchmark results for the ATG Dynamo
e-Business Platform running on Sun Enterprise 10000 servers.
Sun and ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.) have announced a comprehensive
multi-million dollar global alliance to expand their worldwide sales,
marketing, support, and collaborative engineering activities.
Since the Sun Startup Essentials launch in November 1999, there has
been no lack of entrepreneurial spirit from today's business community.
Sun Startup Essentials has had more than 4,400 applicants
since its inception. Sun Startup Essentials solves a number of key issues
for up-and-coming dot-com companies.
Earl Johnson founded the Accessibility Program in 1991. Since then,
Johnson has seen the profound impact Sun's technologies have had on
improving the accessibility of information technology. The Accessiblity
Team has worked hard to ensure that Sun's products and technologies,
such as the Java programming language, Jini network technology, and
GNOME, are designed and developed from the ground up with accessibility
built in.
"Here we are, almost half way through 2001, and the movie that etched
that date in our collective imaginations has yet to reappear on the big
screen. I find that odd" says Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's chief technology
officer. Papadopoulos thought it would be fun to take a look at how
close this flick came, in depicting the technology of 2001.
Oracle Corp. and Sun have announced the world's first three-terabyte
TPC-H result by achieving a stunning 10,764.7 QphH@3000GB with a price
performance of $1,222/QphH@3000GB.
Sun has announced a price reduction for all Sun Enterprise 3500-6500
server 400MHz CPU/Memory and COD Building Blocks and COD RTUs. This
price reduction provides further incentive to the customer to move
towards the building block approach.
Sun is reducing prices on UltraSPARC-II-based Sun Enterprise 3500 to
6500 servers by as much as 16%. Sun also announced price
reductions for its flagship Sun E10K system (a/k/a Starfire).
HighGround Storage Resource Manager Enterprise Edition (Highground SRM)
4.0 is a web-based management application that provides IT managers
with detailed utilization, consumption, and availability data about
their enterprise storage.
The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide
is the book you need to prepare for Java 2 Certification exams.
It includes authoritative coverage of all exam objectives
for the Programmer's Exam and the Developer's Exam.
The 193-page Digital Library Toolkit is designed to help those who are
contemplating setting up a digital library. Whether this is a first
time computerization effort or an exten-sion of an existing library's
services, there are questions to be answered, decisions to be made,
and work to be done.
The sixth annual JavaOne conference is just around the corner and
everyone involved is getting ready for another incredible shindig.
JavaOne continues to grow. Since its inception, it has been the world's
largest developer conference.
TeamVest has developed an online 401(k)
investment site for Intuit, maker of premier personal finance products
such as Quicken and TurboTax. Driven by Java technology, it is the
first and only web site to offer free, specific recommendations on how
to optimize 401(k) investments.
Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, has been on a global
tour spreading the word about standards, swarms, synergies, and web
services. "With insight and humor, Phipps approaches the subject as if
he has been examining it for decades" says Heidi Dailey, "and he has."
Effectively managing a system's patch state is clearly one key to
avoiding system downtime. What is equally clear is that a lot of time
is required to maintain a system's patch state. Sun Patch Check -- a
free service -- makes the process of managing patches much easier and
much faster.
Alex Noordergraaf and Glenn Brunette, creators of the JumpStart
Architecture and Security Scripts (JASS) Toolkit, will host a
special online discussion forum, April 24-30.
WebEx Communications, Inc., has launched WebEx OnCall 2.0, the latest
version of its web-based support service. Because WebEx OnCall 2.0 is
built on the WebEx platform, it allows support representatives to
troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix customer problems across multiple
platforms through a standard browser.
SPSS Data Entry 3.0, the latest version of the survey design and data
collection software from SPSS Inc., is now available for Linux and
Solaris platforms. SPSS Data Entry 3.0 features a new architecture
which delivers better web performance, faster processing times, and
increased online security.
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