Sun Educational Services offers the Sun Corporate Learning Pass to help
you maximize your training dollars while you expand knowledge
throughout your organization. The Sun Corporate Learning Pass allows
multiple employees in your organization to attend up to a total of
eight courses within a year. Also included are valuable Certification
Exam Vouchers and Individual Curriculum Profiles.
Vizzavi NL, based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, is delivering
content and services through a multi-channel access portal, clearly
demonstrating that the use of wireless technology is receiving
widespread acceptance in the European marketplace. Vizzavi NL sought
the assistance of the Sun Professional Services program in
designing and implementing the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) technology-based application architecture for the
multi-channel access portal.
Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. (TABS) implemented a
business-to-business dealer portal, called the FYI Portal.
Implementing a portal allowed TABS to consolidate dealer access to all
its disparate business applications and allowed it to implement a
sophisticated entitlements structure to maintain secure access for the
more than 15,000 users. Sun Enterprise 420R servers power the
portal.
The Summer 2002 issue of OpenFinance Magazine features an article
titled "Market Forces" by Steven Randich, chief information officer at
the Nasdaq Stock Market. Randich explains what the
market is hoping to achieve with Nasdaq's new SuperMontage trading
system that will aggregate quotes and orders, providing access to more
possible trades.
The Network Communities group is a small research group in Sun Labs
focused on understanding the work practices of distributed groups and
building technology to support and enhance these practices. Projects
include Awarenex Awareness and Communication for Mobile Users, ConNexus
Instant Messaging for the Enterprise, CCC Study Report -- "Designing to
Support Distributed Collaboration" and Sun SharedShell Multi-User
Terminal with Collaboration Features.
Training and support services from Sun can help you take full advantage
of the features offered by the new StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite -- a
Sun ONE Software Offering -- or transition from other office
productivity tools quickly and easily. StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite
training accommodates different learning styles, including Web-based
training, low-cost instructor-led classroom training or customized
on-site training.
The GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 1 Release, an advanced user environment for
the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE), is now ready for
testing and evaluation. This release was built and packaged by Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Sun designed the UltraSPARC III Cu microprocessor with a focus on
backward compatibility, scalability, performance, reliability,
availability and serviceability (RAS), creating a product that runs
just as effectively on the Sun Blade family of workstations as on
the 106-processor Sun Fire 15K enterprise servers. Sun's commitment
to the SPARC architecture will continue to be demonstrated by
refinements to the UltraSPARC family of processors.
Sun StorEdge SAN 4.0, featuring new components and new
configuration rules has been released. Its new features
include
2 Gb switch support, 2 Gb FC Network Adapter (HBA) support and world class
SAN diagnostics for resolving problems with minimal customer impact.
"Network Storage Evaluations Using Reliability Calculations," Selim
Daoud's Sun BluePrints OnLine article uses a case study to
introduce concepts and calculations for systematically comparing
redundancy and reliability factors as they apply to network storage
configurations.
This article contains information on how address space is allocated and
used. There is also a summary of memory allocations which the developer
may have some control over, and how the different allocations fill the
process address space. Topics covered include the pmap, stack and ulimit,
and heap and malloc.
Engineer M. Amjad Khan presents some of the best options for optimizing
application performance on UltraSPARC technology-based machines
running the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE). Kahn
provides guidelines for using the most effective Sun C++ software
compiler options to build fast code on UltraSPARC processor-based
Solaris OE.
ONC+ Developer's Guide
Programming Interfaces Guide and SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual
The ONC+ Developer's Guide describes the programming interfaces to
remote procedure call (RPC) and the network name service (NIS+) and
assists you in developing and implementing distributed applications.
The Programming Interfaces Guide describes the SunOS software 5.9 network
and system interfaces used by application developers. The SPARC
Assembly Language Reference Manual describes the language in which the
source files must be written and includes descriptions of the pseudo
operations that allow control over the object file.
An 18 page white paper titled "A Field Guide to Services On Demand and
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)" describes the features and
benefits of using Services on Demand, as well as a high-level design
overview of the various components and technologies used in creating
them. Sun uses the term Services on Demand to describe local
applications, client/server applications, Web applications and Web
Services.
"Java and XML Data Binding," author Brett McLaughlin's latest book,
promises relief to the legions of programmers with a need to work in
XML but who lack the time to become experts. Data binding, according to
McLaughlin, will find enthusiasts among those developers whose
priorities are business-driven, those who need to work with people,
names, addresses and phone numbers rather than elements and
attributes.
A recent article on the Java technology Web site was titled
"Registration and Discovery of Web Services Using JAXR with XML
Registries such as UDDI and ebXML" by Qusay H. Mahmoud. Mahmoud's
comprehensive article demonstrates how to use the Java API for XML
Registries (JAXR) to publish Web Services in XML-based registries and
query the registries.
Sun and Google
Building New Search Capability for Java Technology Web Sites
Sun and Google have built a new search capability for Sun's Java
technology Web sites. Currently in public Beta testing, the service
makes it extremely easy to locate the most sought-after content on
java.sun.com, as well as search the entire contents of Sun's Java technology Web
sites.
According to John Viega, Matt Messier and Pravir Chandra, authors of
"Network Security with OpenSSL," the Internet is a more dangerous place
than most people realize. "Many technical people know that it's
possible to intercept and modify data on the wire, but few realize how
easy it actually is. If an application doesn't properly protect data
when it travels an untrusted network, the application is a security
disaster waiting to happen," says Viega. The only book to thoroughly
document this important security technology is "Network Security with
OpenSSL."
The Sun Professional Services program works with key wireless service
providers and enterprise customers to deliver architectural solutions
that can help enterprises understand a variety of models for bridging
their enterprises to the wireless world. Specific focuses of the
program include wireless standards, security assessment, security
architecture and security implementation.
Mount Clemens General Hospital (MCGH) in Mount Clemens, Michigan, has
chosen QuadraMed Corporations's Affinity, Quantim and Chancellor
software products to manage its complete patient revenue cycle.
The multi-year license agreement, which includes patient
registration, master patient index, patient accounting, coding, medical
record abstracting, utilization management, contract management,
document management and electronic data interchange products,
represents a multi-million dollar investment for the 288-bed acute care
osteopathic hospital.
Opsware System 3 software automates critical IT services associated
with managing servers and business applications. It also lowers costs,
improves quality and eases management of complex application
environments. Opsware is designed for companies in several industry
groups with 100 or more servers under active management. Opsware System
3 offers IT automation in four key areas through Opsware's Service
Automation Modules (SAM's).
AmmoCore Technology has introduced the Silicon Fabrix design platform,
which includes a patent-pending physical implementation architecture
and complete netlist to GDSII methodology. The unique combination of
architecture and methodology enables a highly automated implementation
flow that offers very accurate early predictability and a unique feed
forward flow that assures initial predictions will be met in the final
design without multiple iterations.
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