Sun Microsystems reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter which
ended June 30, 2002. Revenues for the fourth quarter were $3.4 billion,
up 10 percent, as compared with $3.1 billion in revenues reported for
the third quarter of fiscal year 2002.
Robert Youngjohns, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa,
will succeed Masood Jabbar, executive vice president of global sales
operations. Jabbar will work closely with Youngjohns through a
transition that is designed to ensure continuity and stability for Sun
and its customers.
Sun has announced its support of the Liberty Alliance version 1.0
specifications for federated network identification and will integrate
the technology into Java technology, Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) and Sun Open Net Environment (Sun
ONE). The Liberty Alliance Project version 1.0 specifications focus on
interoperability between systems to enable opt-in account linking and
simplified sign-on functionality.
The Sun ONE Platform for Network Identity features pre-integrated
software, hardware and services and has been completely updated to be
fully compliant with the Liberty Alliance 1.0 specification recently
announced. Features include the Sun ONE Identity Server 6
(formerly iPlanet Identity Server: Access Management Edition),
Sun ONE Directory Server (formerly iPlanet Directory Server)
5.2, Solaris 9 OE and new
professional services offerings.
More than 100 leading IT professionals, scientists, engineers and
luminaries from around the world recently met at the Sun High Performance
Computing Consortium (SHPCC) event in Scotland to discuss high-end
scientific and
engineering computing issues and trends.
Sun awarded two Academic Equipment Grants for two groups supporting the
use of open standards and machine augmented data abstraction, the
Biopathways Consortium (BPC) and the BioCyc project at SRI
International.
The Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) has
purchased ten Sun Fire servers to increase the computing power,
reliability, availability and scalability of the HPCF.
By naming Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) as a
Sun Center of Excellence (COE) in Large Scale Data Analysis and
Storage, Sun will help the research team solve computational problems
on the frontiers of science and engineering through collaboration with
the worldwide research community. CACR will install a comprehensive,
integrated solution from Sun, including Sun StorEdge T3 disk arrays
and Sun Fire V880 servers.
Questerra has released their spatial data visualization Web service for
the government sector offering an open platform that ensures
interoperability across all government agencies, enabling better
decision making by combining various information sources into an
intuitive, integrated and collaborative service. Questerra selected
Sun as the core infrastructure technology provider because
of its comprehensive hardware portfolio, cost-effective storage and the
Sun ONE.
AT&T and Sun will jointly market and sell AT&T managed services,
including hosting and other services, that take advantage of Sun
technology. This agreement will help customers by reducing complexity,
challenges and risks of operating global enterprise networks. Sun will
provide the technical consulting services to architect integrated
solutions that incorporate Sun and AT&T technologies to build a
protected, highly reliable and scalable network infrastructure
environment.
Sun and Oracle achieved record-breaking ECperf software benchmark
results with Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) on Sun Fire
3800 Midframe servers, surpassing IBM and HP/BEA Systems
configurations. This certified benchmark was conducted by Sun with
three Sun Fire 3800 servers, configured with 24 UltraSPARC III 900 MHz
processors, running on the Solaris OE and Oracle9i Application Server
Release 2.
The Sun BluePrints OnLine Splash Page for July 2002 features
best practices on the following topics:
Oracle Database Best Practices; Data Management Best Practices; Sun
Fire 12K and 15K Server Security Best Practices; Sun ONE Best
Practices Mini-guide and Data Center Management Best Practices.
Sun technology has enhanced the experience of golf match spectators by
making the Sun Remote Services (SRS) Net Connect software product
available
to them. According to Katie Ford, writing in the Daily Camera,
spectators at the recent Sun-sponsored John Elway Celebrity Classic
were able to monitor the leaderboard from any place on the Omni
Interlochen Resort golf course on their PDAs.
Sun wanted to shrink lead times to its global enterprise customer base
without sacrificing exacting reliability standards and also had to deal
with the added complexity of managing business-critical communications
across often disparate systems. The company decided to implement the
Sun
ONE Portal Server (formerly iPlanet Portal Server) architecture as
the solution to its supply chain redesign.
The Sun ONE Integration Server, EAI Edition (formerly iPlanet
Integration Server, EAI Edition), is a software product designed for
enterprises that need to integrate packaged, custom, legacy, and new
Java technology applications. The product makes it possible to
integrate core business processes with multiple applications running on
multiple operating systems across multiple communication protocols
within the enterprise. Companies benefit from the automation of
business processes across distributed heterogeneous information systems
with increased productivity and efficiency.
The Sun ONE Directory Proxy Server 5.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
(formerly iPlanet Directory Access Router) works with the Sun
ONE Directory Server and both
have had several performance improvements and enhancements as well as bug
fixes.
Solstice Cooperative Consoles software interconnects multiple
Solstice SunNet Manager software consoles to enable cooperative
management of medium to large enterprise networks. Each Solstice
SunNet Manager software console can manage just a site or region and
then be interconnected to other consoles with Solstice Cooperative
Consoles software. Management responsibility can be delegated across
multiple consoles located anywhere in the enterprise.
Selim Daoud's article "Reducing the Backup Window With Sun StorEdge
Instant Image Software" discusses the advantages and methods of using a
point-in-time (PIT) type of backup system versus a more traditional
backup approach that requires extended downtime.
The Sun Fire Boxes-4-Boards Promotion allows you to save thousands
on new Sun Fire server boards by trading in your last-generation
servers for credit towards the purchase of an UltraSPARC III processor
configured system board. With each high-performance Sun Fire server system
board, you can typically accommodate the workloads of multiple legacy
systems. This promotion ends December 31, 2002.
Server documentation available on docs.sun.com includes an installation
guide and a reference manual for the Sun Enterprise 3500 Server,
and a collection of documents on the Sun Fire V480 server such as
an administration guide, a parts installation and removal guide,
product notes and setup and rackmounting guide.
The Netra E1 PCI system expander provides four, full-length PCI
slots at a height of only 1.75 inches, rear PCI/IO connections for easy
cabling and the Solaris OE.
Ruggedized packaging and an economical price tag make the Netra E1
system expander a great option for anyone needing reliable and
affordable I/O expansion.
DM Review magazine covered how the Sun StorEdge 9960 System is
being used at Questerra, a provider of a Web-based service that
integrates data such as sales, marketing and customer information from
multiple sources across the enterprise. Questerra creates composite
spatial views with the data and external data such as demographic,
geographic, competitive information to quickly show how dynamic data
sets interact with and affect each other.
This Data Center Storage Overview offers a review of high end storage
products available from Sun, including Sun StorEdge 9980 System,
Sun StorEdge 9970 System, Sun StorEdge 9960 System and Sun
StorEdge 9910 System.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has received an
offer of a substantial new contribution of technology aimed at
advancing standards-based SAN Management by a group of storage industry
vendors. The contributors have developed a draft specification that
applies CIM/WBEM object technology to create the basis of a complete
management solution for interoperable multi-vendor SANs.
Consolidation of storage brings together applications, databases
and services onto fewer, highly reliable servers and networked storage.
Successful consolidation projects can result in improved manageability,
lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and more efficient utilization of
computing resources.
There are several new Sun Technology Audiocasts and WebCamps available
online. They include "Sun ONE: The Platform for Services on
Demand," "JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Servlets Programming,"
"Sun ONE Application Server 6.5 Architecture, Installation and
Administration," "Web Services Programming Using Java Technology and
XML."
The latest Sun product documentation on the
Solaris OE for developers includes the STREAMS Programming
Guide and the Solaris OE 64-bit Developer's Guide.
Sun has named the fMRI Data Center at
Dartmouth College as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE). The fMRI Data
Center shares and publishes research data on the Internet so that the
data can be used by the scientific community. For the first time, fMRI
can draw on the knowledge of experts from many disciplines such as
mathematics and computer science.
Sun is donating its StarSuite office productivity software to
educational institutions via the Hong Kong Education City (EdCity)
project run by the Education Department. The value of the donation is
about HK $48 million and will cover more than 2,400 schools.
The New Internet Computer Company (NIC) is using Sun servers to create
solutions for schools throughout South America. The solution also uses
NIC Company's New Internet Computer (NIC) and Oracle's Help Us Help
Foundation. NIC began its initiative in Santiago, Chile. It involves
the installation of 500 NIC Internet computers in school systems
throughout Santiago.
StarSuite software -- A Sun ONE Software Offering -- is an
affordable alternative in office
productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including
Solaris OE, Microsoft Windows and
Linux. The office suite has an easy-to-use interface and contains
full-featured applications including word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation, graphics and database capabilities. StarSuite 6.0
software supports Asian languages, including Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
"Java and SOAP" is a 258-page book written by Robert Englander and
available from O'Reilly. "Java and SOAP" introduces the basics of SOAP
and was written for anyone interested in how to access and build
SOAP-based Web Services in Java technology. The book also covers many
topics that are essential to real-world development, such as how to add
support for your own object types, how to handle errors, add your own
information to fault messages and handle attachments.
Authors Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means have written a second
edition to "XML in a Nutshell" which provides developers with a
comprehensive guide to all aspects of XML, including the most basic
syntax rules and the details of DTD and schema creation. With updated
sections on standards still in development, and extra coverage of
Unicode, the book provides an easy-to-use reference to the fundamental
rules which all XML documents and authors must follow.
Simon Brown's book "Professional JSP Tag Libraries" teaches you how to
create usable, maintainable and flexible tags, along with the good
practices and the design implications of tags that maximizes the
reusability of your code. This book includes many useful code examples
aims to teach you to create genuinely object-oriented Web
applications.
"Core LEGO Mindstorms Programming: Unleash the Power of the Java
Platform" by Brian Bagnall is a 560-page book, demonstrating how to
enhance LEGO Mindstorms robots by going beyond the built-in tools to
leverage Java technology. Working from
3-D plans and photographs, you'll construct five unique robots,
each capable of increasingly powerful navigation.
The new Java Pet Store demo is now available
for download. The Java Pet Store for Web Services application release
1.3.1 is the first reference application for integrating the Web
Services Developer Pack with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE). In his article "Web Services and J2EE Technology:
One Platform" Jon Byous recommends using the Java Pet Store demo for
Web Services and identifies guidelines to follow.
A new Sun technology audiocast features "Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
(EJB) 2.0 Container-managed Persistence (CMP)" with Carol McDonald,
Technology Evangelist for Sun. This session provides a comprehensive
overview of the EJB 2.0 architecture for container-managed persistence,
together with the Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language (EJB
Query Language) for entity beans with container-managed persistence.
Jason Byassee covers how to use Jini technology as a foundation for
mobile agents in a recent JavaWorld publication article.
Java technology provides an ideal implementation platform,
furnishing tools that help streamline complex software applications.
Jini technology framework facilitates mobile agent application
development, providing key features for distributed network
programming.
Sun Educational Services is offering an exclusive free 90-day, Web-based
subscription to a course that introduces the Java 2 Platform, Micro
Edition (J2ME) technology and platform application using CLDC and
the MID-Profile. The course, "An Introduction to J2ME and the MID
Profile" (WJ-4500-SDC), covers how to develop wireless applications and
integrate them for maximum effectiveness.
The Web Component Development with Java Technology course (course
number SL-314) provides students with the knowledge and skills needed
to quickly build reference implementation-compliant Web tier components
from JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology and servlet technologies
using the Tomcat server environment.
Recently, Janice Heiss conducted an interview with Max Goff, a
technology evangelist for Sun, specializing in various
Java technology-related topics. Their conversation ranged from
Jini network technology to distributed network computing and
beyond.
A recent feature on the Java Web site was titled "Teaching Java
Technology with BlueJ" by Dana Nourie. The BlueJ environment was
developed as part of a a university research project for teaching
object-orientation utilizing Java technology to beginners. According
to Nourie, BlueJ is a simple IDE that encourages experimentation and
exploration through simplicity, visualization and interactivity.
Kyocera Corporation has selected Pumatech's Intellisync Lite software
to provide core synchronization capabilities for its next-generation
handheld device. Under the agreement, Pumatech's Intellisync Lite will
be bundled with the new Kyocera PocketCosmo to provide complete
synchronization of e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and expense
data between the new Java technology-based handheld and the
Microsoft Outlook and Palm Desktop PC-based software applications.
Stellent Connection Server 6.1 provides content integration and
distribution capabilities that enable Stellent's enterprise customers
to aggregate content from multiple repositories, manage it in the
Stellent environment and distribute it to internal and external
individuals, Web sites and applications. The Connection Server 6.1 is
now compliant with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
and enables companies to run Stellent Connection Server in J2EE
platform application servers.
Contivo Inc. will bundle
Contivo Analyst into BEA WebLogic Integration 7.0, a comprehensive
integration solution. With Contivo Analyst, BEA customers will be able
to access an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical interface designed to
achieve rapid and reusable data integration between their enterprise
and B2B applications.
Tadpole-Cartesia, the field mapping software subsidiary of Tadpole
Technology (LSE-TAD), has been named one of the winners of ESRI's
ArcPad Challenge. The honor specifically cites Tadpole-Cartesia's
products that uniquely extend ArcPad's capability to natively run
multiple data formats.
The latest version of the OpenGL application programming interface
(API), the OpenGL 1.4 specification, is now available. Introduced ten
years ago by SGI, OpenGL is now the premier environment used by
software developers to create interactive 2-D and 3-D visual
applications for computer systems ranging from consumer PCs to graphics
workstations and supercomputers.
Core Security Technologies has released version 1.1 of the company's
risk assessment product, CORE IMPACT, which professionalizes and
streamlines the penetration testing process. In addition to enhanced
reporting and logging functionality, the new version includes exploit
modules for the CDE ToolTalk software database server vulnerabilities and
other important recent vulnerabilities including the "Chunked Encoding"
vulnerabilities that affect the two most widely used Web server
programs, Apache and Internet Information Server.
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