Sun has completed the acquisition of Clustra Systems Inc., a
developer of high-availability clustering technology that enables
continuous real-time computing. The Clustra technology will enable
multiple software products from Sun, beginning with the iPlanet
Application Server, and is expected to extend the high availability of
the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) by delivering a unified,
self-repairing, massively scalable Web services software platform.
iPlanet is now a division of Sun and remains a core component of the
Sun ONE. In an open letter to customers, Sun
Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy reviews the three-year collaboration between
Sun and AOL Time Warner called iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a
Sun-Netscape Alliance, whose goal was to form a to develop a superior
infrastructure software platform to enable the creation and delivery of Web
services.
The Service Availability Forum has added Sun to the
list of industry-leading communications and computing companies working
together to create and promote Service Availability interface
specifications. By joining the Service Availability Forum, Sun
complements its current Netra product line designed to help network
equipment providers build available and reliable telecom infrastructure
platforms. Sun lends its experience building carrier-grade, highly
available products to help define the open programming interface
specifications.
The Italian automobile company Stola is extending its use of Sun
technology with a Sun Blade 1000 Workstation and Sun Expert3D
graphics for full 3D stereo graphics presentations on a three meter by
two meter display from Barco Projection Systems.
Sun and Manhattan Associates Inc. will jointly market and deliver an
extended supply chain execution solution with broad, deep functionality
to manage all aspects of distribution center (DC) operations, including
receiving, inventory management and order fulfillment, transportation
execution and short-horizon planning on Sun's scalable platform.
Tadpole has formed a business pact with Sun Microsystems Federal aimed at
improving the field computing capability and flexibility of U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD) agencies. Sun Federal plans to deploy Tadpole's
world-class portable UNIX solutions to DoD agencies through the
Navy's Tactical Advanced Computer Joint Workstation (TAC-JW) contract.
These U.S.-built solutions include Tadpole's UltraBookIIe laptop and
transportable VoyagerIIi server, both of which are built around
UltraSPARC and Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE)
technologies.
Rapidigm, which offers comprehensive, Web-enabled, end-to-end services
and solutions, used the Forte for Java Integrated Development
Environment to create a distributed ticketing reservation system based on
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).
Sun has enhanced support offerings for the upcoming release of
StarOffice 6.0 Software that will expand the reach of the office
productivity suite. Maintaining its commitment to providing the best
value and most cost-effective solutions in multi-platform,
full-featured office productivity software, Sun will continue to enable
a no-charge download of the OpenOffice.org version of the application
through the OpenOffice.org project. In addition, Sun will fully support
the on-going community development process through OpenOffice.org while
discontinuing the free download of StarOffice Software.
The Solstice Enterprise Agents Software technology and Developer's Toolkit
provides an open, extensible, standards based solution that facilitates
effective management of both network elements and computer subsystem
components. The Solstice Enterprise Agents SDK for the Solaris
OE is available for download.
The End of Life (EOL) of Sun Management Center (SunMC) 2.1.1
Software has been announced. Support, including bug fixes, will
continue for the next five years. All functionality from SunMC 2.1.1
Software is included in SunMC 3.0 Software.
There are no transition issues between SunMC 2.1.1 Software and SunMC
3.0 Software.
The Sun Blade 2000 Workstation is the world's fastest 64-bit
workstation. It can support dual UltraSPARC III Cu processors
running at up to 1.05 GHz and has clocked the highest floating point
performance of any workstation. It brings high-end graphics
visualization capabilities to the desktop for the first time using the
Sun XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator and comes fully loaded, with from
1 to 8 GB of RAM, a Sun XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator that can
drive up to four displays, one or two 73-GB Fibre Channel disk drives,
DVD, the SunPCi II pro coprocessor card, and a Sun 1394 Visual
Collaboration Kit.
The new Sun Blade 2000 20th Anniversary Personal Visualization
Stations are the highest performance 64-bit systems. These systems
utilize 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu CPUs and deliver faster floating
point performance than all their 64-bit competitors. Having the new Sun
XVR-1000 graphics accelerator on board, Sun Blade 2000 Personal
Visualization Stations are suited for compute- and graphics-intensive
power-users.
The new Sun Blade 2000 Workstations are the highest performance 64-bit
workstations to date based on SPECfp results. Some configurations will
include the SunPCi IIpro Co-processor Card that allows customers the
ability to develop and operate in dual operating environments. These
workstations utilize the new 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu CPUs and deliver
faster floating point performance than any other 64-bit competitor. The new,
higher performance CPUs support prefetch technology, higher capacity hard
disk drives of 73 GB and a new preinstalled OS.
The new Sun Blade 2000 20th Anniversary limited edition Personal
Visualization Workstation showcases Sun's 20 years of
innovation. This system utilizes the new 1050 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu
CPUs, delivering the fastest floating point performance of any
workstation to date. It comes fully loaded with Sun's leading edge
technology products including the new Sun XVR-1000 Graphics
Accelerator. The Sun Blade 2000 20th Anniversary limited edition
Workstation is suited for compute and visualization intensive
power-users.
Sun Fire 15K System Management Services (SMS) 1.2 Software is the
new system
management software for Sun Fire 15K System Controllers. An
instance of System Management Services software is required on each of
the main and backup System Controllers. The Sun Fire 15K SMS
1.2 Software will be distributed and pre-loaded on
all newly ordered System Controllers for new Sun Fire 15K Server
shipments.
The Sun Cobalt Qube 3 Appliance Server has upgraded software with
many new features. In addition, both new and old
configurations are being transitioned.
Sun is transitioning the Sun Fire 280R Server
configuration that has 512 MB memory and one 750 MHz UltraSPARC III
CPU. As a result of this transition, the entry level Sun Fire 280R
Server configuration will now have 1 GB memory and one 750 MHz
UltraSPARC III CPU.
The Sun Fire V100 Server is the next generation of the Netra X1
Server. Solaris 8 OE is
pre-installed. The name has been changed from Netra to Sun Fire V100
Server to distinguish DC/NEBS products from other products. It comes
with free iPlanet WebServer Enterprise Edition 6.0 and Sun
Chili!Soft ASP Software.
Sun has added Web server software and enhancements to its single
processor, general purpose server, the Sun Fire V100 Server. The
rebranded and enhanced Sun Fire V100 Server now comes with a CD-ROM
drive and Web hosting software. With new hardware and software
enhancements, Sun is bundling approximately $3,000 of value into its
competitively priced $995 server.
Sun offers consolidation solutions at all levels of the enterprise. In
database environments, consolidating storage on the Sun StorEdge
9900 series can help bring greater availability, bandwidth and
scalability. The Sun StorEdge 6900 series with built-in
virtualization delivers midrange consolidation solutions ideal for
transaction-oriented application environments, as well as Web
server-based presentation environments.
The Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.0 L10N will include new
documentation in five languages including Japanese, Korean, French,
Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
Two new host to array SCSI data cable x-options are now available for the
Sun StorEdge D2 Array. The new cable x-options provides additional
configuration flexability by providing a ten-meter cable option.
One four-meter SCSI data cable per bus ships with the Sun StorEdge D2
Array.
Sun StorEdge L9 LTO Autoloader and Sun StorEdge L20 LTO Tape
Library (two drive, rackmount unit) is now offered as a bundle with
Solstice Backup Software. An X-option rackmount kit is also now
available for customers who previously purchased a deskside Sun StorEdge
L20 Tape Library and now
want a rackmount kit.
The March 2002 issue of Sun BluePrints OnLine includes articles ranging
from designing ISP architectures and security practices involving the Sun
Enterprise 10000 Server to the management of live upgrades using logical
volume manager software. There are also articles on performance optimization
and clustered database software stacks.
Users are invited to take part in the iPlanet Message Queue for
Java, version 3.0 Beta Program. iPlanet Message Queue for Java is
an implementation of the Java Message Service API and provider framework, which provides
standardized asynchronous messaging between Java technology
applications. iPlanet Message Queue goes beyond standards compliance to
offer high reliability, high performance and increased developer
productivity.
Sun is developing a Java technology telematics framework product
that provides the architecture and building block to span a secure
back-end infrastructure for delivering services. Sun will apply its
knowledge of open architectures as a trusted advisor to companies
working on emerging telematics and infotainment systems.
Sam Patterson, CEO of ComponentSource, discusses reusing components
instead of writing them from scratch. This reduces development time and
time to market. J2EE
helps simplify and speed component-based development for multi-tier
enterprise applications and Web services by providing a complete set of
services to those components and by handling many details of
application behavior automatically, without complex programming.
When the Cobalt Group's business volume grew, the compnay decided to
migrate its applications from CGI and Perl, which were on a Linux VA
operating base system, to a Java technology base. The Cobalt Group
provides e-business applications and services to the automotive
industry.
Tai-Wei Lin's article "Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB): A
Primer" introduces developers to the basics of JAXB Early Access
Implementation v 1.0. Lin provides brief explanations on how to create
simple binding codes using the API and tools. Also discussed are a few
situations where JAXB shows its strengths.
The JavaOne Conference will feature many Sun
Sun ONE sessions, pods and promotions. Learn how to
leverage Sun ONE for the creation, assembly and deployment of your
applications designed for the networked world. Sun ONE Sessions
include Java Web Services Developer Pack and Distributed Identity.
Sun ONE Pods include iPlanet Application Server: XML and Java
Technology and Sun ONE B2B Integration: ebXML Technology Preview.
Infoglide Software is moving in new directions with enterprise editions
of its fraud detection and alias identification software solutions.
Their Similarity Search Engine 6.0, Fraud Investigator Enterprise and
Fraud Investigator Enterprise DB2 products identify incidences of
fraudulent activity, false aliases, and security threats in databases.
UniTrends Software Corporation, a leading developer of enterprise-wide
cross-platform backup, recovery and data protection products and
services, has unveiled its Solar Shield crash recovery system for
Solaris OE. Solar Shield provides
complete crash recovery for Solaris OE systems. Solar Shield
completely rebuilds an identical Solaris OE on a new hard disk, being
careful to preserve the file system sizes and mount points, device
drivers, security patches, permissions and kernel bootstraps.
The comprehensive Enterprise Security Solution from BindView Corp.
meets the growing need of security professionals for centralized
management of both the enterprise-wide IT and security infrastructures,
regardless of varying platforms, applications, directories and IT
security devices. BindView's bv-Control product family finds and closes
specific holes exploited by hackers or hacker software. BindView's
ActiveAdmin helps with security policy compliance from a single desktop.
Multi-User Solutions, has achieved
Solaris OE Certification for Solaris 8 OE. Certification from Sun
opens the door for Multi-User Solutions to the number one UNIX
operating system market in the United States.
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