Sun and the J. Paul Getty Museum are collaborating to deliver
location-based personalization services for museum visitors by
leveraging technologies such as the Java programming language and XML
and using the Sun ONE vision as a
basis.
Traders in foreign exchange, equities and fixed income at UBS Warburg
are using MindAlign, a collaboration tool from divine Inc. that runs on
the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to
exchange instant messages about market information in real time. The
solution runs on UltraSPARC II or III or faster servers with the
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE).
By providing a common framework that synthesizes open network interfaces
and infrastructure to implement the vision of shared context across the
media value chain, Sun ONE allows the
deployment of smart media services that benefit content owners and
providers,
media services providers and media network operators.
Sun and SAS have announced preliminary results from their latest
collaborative engineering effort associated with Sun's Tunathon II
program. Running unmodified and non-customized user application code on
Sun's mid-range and high-end servers, the application performance for
Release 9.0 of SAS software improved between 120 percent and more than
300 percent depending on the specific application areas.
On April 18, 2002, Sun reported results for its fiscal third
quarter which ended March 31, 2002. Revenues for the third quarter were
$3.1 billion, essentially flat, as compared with the $3.1 billion in
revenues reported for the second quarter of fiscal year 2002. The
audiocast transcript is available on the Sun Web site.
The Brocade Conference 2002 will be held in Las Vegas on June 2-5.
Sun is a sponsor of this Networking Storage Event which provides
opportunities to connect with other professionals and learn first-hand
of their successful SAN implementations, ideas and experiences.
PeopleSoft successfully completed the internal implementation of
PeopleSoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Sales software on Sun
Fire 3800 and 4800 Midframe servers. PeopleSoft CRM Sales is a
complete sales force automation solution that is designed to enable
higher levels of efficiency in the sales process.
Java technology from Sun has enabled wireless connectivity, ubiquitous
computing that lets devices connect to a network regardless of
location. The Solaris 8 OE can
deliver the type of infrastructure needed to compete in the wireless
market by providing the complete feature set to enable outstanding
availability, reliability, and scalability. Solaris OE enables
developers to create powerful applications that optimize both Solaris
OE and Java technologies.
Sun will rebrand its iPlanet Software, Forte Software,
StarOffice Software and Sun Chili!Soft Software product lines
under the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) brand. Some of the
products being rebranded are iPlanet Web Server, StarOffice 6.0
Software Office Suite and Forte Tools for Java IDE.
The Solaris 8 OE
End-of-Software-Support Announcements list a number of features that
have been removed from Solaris OE. A few are the HotJava Browser,
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Software, Solstice AutoClient 2.1
Software and
the Java Development Kit: JNI 1.0 Interface.
Advances in microprocessors and network technology have led to an
exponential growth in the Internet. IPv6, the next-generation Internet
Protocol, overcomes the limitations of the current version, IPv4, by
providing larger address space. Now available in the
Solaris 8 OE, IPv6 enables developers to build
applications for the next-generation Internet.
The Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment Users Guide, written for
system administrators and support personnel who are already familiar
with Sun disk array and storage area network (SAN) products, describes
how to use the Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment graphical user
interface (GUI).
The Sun ONE Starter Kit features Forte for Java 3.0 Community
and Enterprise Editions, and iPlanet Application, Web, Portal,
Integration and Directory Servers under right-to-develop licenses.
Additionally, the latest Java Development Kit,
the J2EE 1.3 platform, currently available parts of the
Java technology APIs pack (JAX Pack)and links to third-party
products are included.
The Sun Fire F15K and Sun Fire 12K Server Dynamic Reconfiguration
for CPU/Memory board and Concurrent Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)
capabilities are now available for customer deployment. The Sun Fire
F15K and 12K Server Dynamic Reconfiguration
feature allows hardware system resources and PCI I/O assemblies to be
removed from or added to Solaris 8
OE and applications without application outage or stoppage.
The new Sun Fire 280R Server base includes a server chassis, one
power supply and a fan tray. It forms the base for ATO (Assemble to
Order) Sun Fire 280R Server orders. CPU, memory and disk drives must be
ordered with the server base to create factory-built ATO systems. Users
will no longer need to order a separate field configurable fan tray,
simplifying the order process.
The Sun Enterprise 10000 Server can now be configured with PCI-only
domains following the successful qualification of PCI boot and network
adapters. The Power Express PCI CTO system board provides a lower cost
alternative than non-Power Express configurations for field upgrades.
The newly supported adapters include Dual LVD SCSI/Dual Ethernet PCI
Adapter and GigaSwift Gigabit Ethernet MMF PCI Adapter.
Sun has reduced prices on Sun Fire 15K Server Standard Configurations and
the Sun Fire 15K Server Capacity On Demand 1.1 server base package. These
price reductions are synchronized with price reductions of memory and
CPU/memory Uniboards or building blocks. The Sun Fire 15K Server standard
configurations are being re-priced to enhance Sun's competitive
positions and to align with Sun Fire 3800, 4800, 4810, 6800 and 12K
Servers. The Sun Upgrade Allowance Program applies.
The standalone parts for the Sun HighGround Storage Resource Manager
(also known as Sun StorEdge SRM) product family, including SRM
Enterprise Edition 5.0, SRM Global Reporter 1.0, SRM File Prospector
2.0.1 and SRM for Database Servers 5.0 marketing parts are being
transitioned toward EOL as the Sun StorEdge Resource Management Suite
has been upgraded.The Storage Resource Suite has the software product
versions
bundled into a single marketing part and single package for licensing
and will be sold on a capacity-based pricing model.
Sun is introducing several Sun StorEdge 9900 series long wave
laser-compatible Fibre Channel cables with single mode characteristics
of various lengths with both SC to SC and SC to LC connections to
support distances up to 10km. A new Russel & Stoll RS3913 to NEMA L6-20
power adapter cable will also be made available.
The overall price of the Sun StorEdge 9900 Series Hardware
has been reduced to make the product more competitive in the
marketplace. The Sun StorEdge 9900 series delivers an fast, massively
scalable and continuously available storage system.
There is now additional support for the InRange Director Class Switch in
the form of upgrade kit options that allow the customer to connect two
64-port Directors to form a single 128-port Director. Also available is an
InRange long wave GBIC used to support distances up to 10 kilometers.
Select McData and InRange Cable prices have been increased to reflect
the increased cost of goods from the vendor.
The May 30th Webcast, Managing Network Identity in Education,
will feature some of the leading technologists and researchers in the
industry and help you understand what you can do to address this upcoming
challenge.
The ScholarPAC Software (Pricing for the Academic Community)
Program from Sun provides discounted software, support and maintenance
for educational and research institutions.
Sun has made available a Developers Toolkit for creating IMS learning
resource-compatible Meta-data for the creation of XML documents that
conform to the IMS Meta-data Specification standard. IMS Global
Learning Consortium Inc. (IMS) is developing and promoting open
specifications for facilitating online distributed learning
activities.
The new Sun Blade 2000 Performance Workstation systems, the highest
performance 64-bit workstations to date based on SPECfp results, are
being offered in a special promotion for education and research
institutions only.
"Exploring the Security Changes of the 1.4 Release of the Java 2
Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)" is an article by John Zukowski.
The underlying Java 2 platform release has evolved to incorporate
more features into the J2SE platform release 1.4 to provide a secure
environment
to execute mobile code with many enhancements in the security
architecture.
For Java technology developers interested in learning what Web
Services have to offer, the new "Java Web Services" book by David A.
Chappell and Tyler Jewell, provides a detailed overview of Web
Services, XML-based interoperability technologies and the Java
technologies designed to interact with them.
"Jython Essentials" by Samuele Pedroni and Noel Rappin provides an
introduction to the Python language, offering a brief but thorough tour
of Python concepts necessary to use Jython effectively. In particular,
the authors say, Jython excels at simplifying the use of complex Java
programming libraries and APIs, such as the Swing graphical interface
toolkit or the Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) API, the
Servlet API and various XML tools.
The course, "Applying Forte for Java Community Edition", introduces
students to the advanced features of Forte for Java Integrated Development
Environment (IDE), such as JDBC,
distributed processing by using Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Java
Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) Extensible Markup Language
(XML) in Java technology and internationalization.
Raghavan Srinivas is a Java technology evangelist at Sun who
specializes in Java technology and distributed systems. In her
interview with Srinivas, Janice Heiss asked about a number of topics
that included security, Web Services, standards, developer
certification and the future of Java technology.
Vartan Piroumian is a wireless application consultant at Sun
and has written a book on using the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
(J2ME)
platform to build advanced wireless applications. The tutorial style
book, "Wireless J2ME Platform Programming" from Sun Microsystems Press
and Prentice Hall, covers key features of the J2ME platform and the
development process: planning, architecture, design, coding,
compilation, execution, debugging and deployment.
Attend the Sun Wireless Learning Solutions classes from April to July
31, 2002 and get a free Palm m500 handheld. Eligible classes are
"Developing Wireless Applications Using WAP/WML" (DTW-210) and "Developing
Mobile Applications on the
J2ME Platform Using CLDC and the MID Profile" (DTJ-360).
Sun and other members of the OSS through Java Initiative--including
Borland, Component Insights, eXcelon, MetaSolv Software, Prismtech, PwC
Consulting and TeleGea--have released the OSS Trouble Ticket API. This
is the first in a series of APIs designed to foster the rapid
development of applications addressing the business-critical
requirements of telecommunications companies worldwide.
OKENA, a developer of intrusion prevention software, has upgraded its
flagship product, StormWatch, to support
Solaris OE. StormWatch for Solaris OE offers customers in
UNIX systems-based environments the first "zero update"
(non-signature based)
intrusion prevention security solution. StormWatch proactively and
cost-effectively protects an enterprise's mission-critical applications
and operating systems against known and unknown security risks.
GNP, a provider of engineering, manufacturing and systems integration
services for the embedded control and communications industry, offers a
customized Rear Transition Module (RTM) for Sun Netra
CP2040/CP2060/CP2080 processors, rendering these high-performance
carrier-grade platforms Compact Packet Switched Backplane (cPSB)
compliant. This modification spearheaded by GNP is the latest cPSB
initiative launched by the company since PICMG 2.16 specifications were
outlined last year.
Mentor Graphics Corporation has issued the 2002.1 release of its HDL
Designer Series tool suite for design creation, analysis and management
of complex chips. The tool suite offers productivity enhancements,
including an improved interconnect table that enables rapid creation of
high quality well-structured hardware description language (HDL) for
any level of design complexity.
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