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Sun Demonstrates Technology at Siggraph 2002 Conference
Sun Grid Engine Software, New Java 3D API 1.3 and More
Sun participated in the Siggraph 2002 conference recently in San
Antonio, Texas, and unveiled innovative 3-D graphics products and new
developments with software vendors. Sun also featured
its range of 3-D graphics products, the new Java 3D API version 1.3
technology and its 64-bit workstations and servers, including the Sun
Blade 2000 workstation.
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Sun Acquires Afara Websystems, Inc.
Developer of Next-Generation, SPARC Platform-based Microprocessors
Sun has acquired Afara Websystems, Inc., a company that develops
next-generation, SPARC platform-based microprocessor technology
focused on delivering breakthrough levels of processor performance.
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Features
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Sun Sigma: Meeting Defined and Measurable Customer Requirements
For a Higher Level of Customer Satisfaction
Sun Sigma is Sun's approach to running the company's
business that focuses on meeting defined and measurable customer
requirements. Sun Sigma is based on a worldwide business phenomenon
called Six Sigma. Sun Sigma is an iterative approach that makes
progress in steps, rather than through an avalanche of change.
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Sun's Corrective Action Network
Ensures Best-in-class Reliability and Performance of Sun Products
The Sun Control Tower is a company-wide initiative allied with the Sun
Sigma program to help ensure the best-in-class reliability and
performance of Sun products. It is the center of Sun's Corrective
Action Network, an integrated group of Sun organizations dedicated to
identifying and fixing problems in a standard way. Using Sun Sigma
methodology and tools, Sun Control Tower rigorously measures
information about business processes to better meet customer
requirements.
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Three Examples of Sun Sigma Projects
Business Improvements
Three examples of Sun Sigma projects that have lead to business
improvements include the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE)
Download Program, Sun's Floor-Tile-Ready Systems Program and Sun
Enterprise 10K Server Qualification Process.
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Jim Mitchell and Future Possibilities of the Internet
Expanding Technology, Shrinking Size
In a recent article in Computer Times titled "Small Wonders," Jim
Mitchell, discusses future possibilities of the Internet. He discusses
the possibility of tiny sensors that go inside your body to monitor
your health and the privacy issues this new technology raises.
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Software
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"Sun ONE Portal Server 3.0 Rewriter Configuration and Management Guide"
Rob Baker's Sun BluePrints OnLine
One article in the Sun BluePrints OnLine 36th edition, July 2002, is
titled "Sun ONE Portal Server 3.0 Rewriter Configuration and
Management Guide" by Rob Baker. Baker provides comprehensive
best practices and deployment guidelines for the Sun ONE Portal
Server (formerly iPlanet Portal Server) 3.0 product, with a
specific emphasis on the rewriter component of the Secure Remote Access
Gateway (SRAP).
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New Jini Technology Web Site
Central Place and Resource for the Jini Community Program
Jini network technology is an open software architecture that
enables developers to create network-centric services that are highly
adaptive to change. A new central resource for members of the Jini
Community program is Jini.org, a Web site where members can discover
new information, discuss, collaborate, exchange source code and ideas
and advance Jini network Technology.
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Hardware
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New Sun XVR-4000 3-D Graphics Accelerator Board Development Release
New Features at Lower Cost
Continuing to drive the transformation of the visualization and
simulation markets, Sun unveiled the development release program for
the Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerator board. The Sun XVR-4000
graphics accelerator board provides superior rendering performance and
fast interconnect and other new features such as anti-aliasing filters.
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SunPCi IIpro Coprocessor Card 2.3.1 Software
New Features and Download
The SunPCi IIpro card enables users to run Microsoft Windows
applications on Sun systems at native speeds alongside Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) applications. SunPCi 2.3.1 software
drivers and documentation are now available for download.
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An Overview of the UltraSPARC III Cu Processor
26-page White Paper
A 26-page white paper titled "An Overview of the UltraSPARC III Cu
Processor" provides a brief overview of Sun's latest SPARC (Scalable
Processor ARChitecture) microprocessor, the 1050 MHz (1.05 GHz) 0.15
micron copper metal implementation of the UltraSPARC III processor.
SPARC is designed to scale in three important respects: over time,
across implementations and up in MP capability (number of processors).
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Storage
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Network Storage Professional Development Path
Network Storage Certification
Sun is now offering Network Storage certification and supporting
curriculum created in cooperation with VERITAS software that covers
three major areas of storage technology: data management, backup and
recovery and storage area networks. These storage technology
certifications include Sun Certified Data Management Engineer, Sun
Certified Backup and Recovery Engineer and Sun Certified Storage
Architect.
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Storage Management Learning Path
Courses and Certification
The courseware in the Storage Management Learning Path provides
training for effectively
administering and managing storage, as well as administering a highly
available computing environment. The storage management courseware
helps participants build skills in the areas of disk management, storage
administration and storage area networks.
The availability management courseware is designed to help
participants understand and build skills in Sun Cluster software
technology.
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Balint Fleischer, Storage CTO of Sun Storage
Interview on the Future of Storage
Kevin Komiega of SearchStorage.com interviewed Balint Fleischer,
storage CTO at Sun, about Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HighGround and
Sun's research and development in storage. They also talked about Sun's
position in the storage market in comparison to competitiors.
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Developer
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"COM on the Solaris Operating Environment"
By Craig Winter
The Solaris Developer Connection program Web site featured a
technical article titled "COM on the Solaris Operating Environment"
by Craig Winter. Winter's article specifically discusses a pilot
project that was conducted at a major software development company in
the United States investigating the feasibility of creating a port to
the Solaris OE platform of a Component Object Model (COM) application
that had been developed solely on the Windows NT Visual C++ development
environment.
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Forte Application Scalability Tool (FAST) Technology Preview
Early Access Program and User Guide
The Forte Application Scalability Tool (FAST) enables users to get
maximum parallelism and scalability, using automatic data flow
programming techniques. FAST is a parallel programming tool that helps
you generate a program that will run with maximum efficiency on a
parallel computer. Using algorithmic descriptions as input, FAST
outputs subroutines that are called in the usual manner by Fortran main
programs. The FAST-generated subroutines can then be used to replace
subroutines that do not exploit the parallel computer hardware.
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Code Examples in the Sun ONE Studio 7, Compiler Collection
Sun Performance Library Software and More
Links to code examples in the Sun ONE Studio 7, Compiler Collection
(formerly Forte Compiler Collection 7) such as Sun Performance
Library software, C++ Interval Arithmetic code examples, and
Fortran 95 interval arithmetic code examples are available on the Sun
Web site.
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MDeBug: An MDB Based Debugging Tool
To Perform System Crash Dump Analysis for the Solaris Operating Environment
MDeBug is a tool that can be used to perform system crash dump analysis
for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and above, and
application core analysis for the Solaris 9 OE and above. The target
audience are those who might be interested in gathering information
from core files to debug a hang, a panic or an application crash.
MDeBug provides an option to run a basic or an advanced analysis for
the kernel crash dump.
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Top Ten Reasons to UpGrade to Sun ONE Studio 4 Software
Extensible, Open Standards-based IDE
The Sun ONE Studio 4 (formerly Forte for Java) provides
a world-class set of "smart" development tools with lots of
productivity wizards and templates, the latest Java technologies and
the flexibility to seamlessly work with tools from third-party vendors.
Its intuitive, GUI is easy to use, while its
underlying framework provides powerful technologies for building and
assembling the components of the most challenging end-to-end
solutions.
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Publications
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"UDDI, SOAP and WSDL Reference Book"
by Aaron E. Walsh
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Simple Object
Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) are
the key specifications driving today's Web Services revolution. "UDDI,
SOAP and WSDL: The Web Services Specification Reference Book" by Aaron
E. Walsh is a 326-page book full of authoritative answers -- conveniently
organized, formatted and fully indexed.
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"Practical Object-Oriented Development with UML and Java"
by Richard C. Lee and William M. Tepfenhart
"Practical Object-Oriented Development With UML And Java" by
Richard C. Lee and William M. Tepfenhart tells readers how to
build Object-Oriented (OO) models using UML notation, and how to
implement these models using Java technology. This self-teaching
guide, written by two industry leaders, helps you to understand the
differences between OO analysis, OO design and OO programming.
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Second Edition of Morelli's Java Technology Guide
Object-Oriented Problem Solving
The second edition of "Java, Java, Java: Object-Oriented Problem
Solving" by Ralph Morelli focuses on Java technology's strengths and
Object-Oriented (OO) problem solving, and provides a solid
understanding of objects and methods, concentrating on problem
decomposition and program design.
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Java Technology
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New Java Technology Resource Center in Thailand
To Provide Support for Public and Private Sectors
An article by Sasiwimon Boonruang in the Bangkok Post reported that Sun
would build a Java technology resource center in collaboration with
Software Park Thailand and Thai Software Syndicate Ltd (TSSL)
Consortium to provide support to both the public and private sectors.
Sun Microsystems (Thailand) country director Sanpat Sopon noted that
the resource center would enable Thailand to develop skills in Java
technology.
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Dbdoc: Online Reference to Java API Documentation
An Example of a Three-tier Java Technology-based Web Application
Dbdoc is an online reference to Java API documentation created by
Eitan Suez, president and founder of UptoData, Inc. and Sun Certified
Programmer for the Java platform. With all constant new releases and
upgrades of the Java platform, Suez wanted to see his own documentation
that listed multiple API from one location, had more color coding in the
user interface, a richer user interface, and search capability. He also
wanted to be able to drill down to source code.
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An Introductory Overview of Wireless
From the Wireless Java Technology Web Site
"Making Sense of Cellular" by Tom Clements on the Wireless Java technology Web
site gives an introductory overview of the wireless radio spectrum, on
which wireless technology is based. The author also covers emerging
technologies and new applications that promise to revolutionize the way
mobile
devices transport and use data.
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Rima Patel on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and .NET
Interview by Janice Heiss
Java technology evangelist Rima Patel discusses the differences
between the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and
.NET, Microsoft's .NET PetShop, the need for business knowledge for
developers, and her projections about the future of Java technology
and the Semantic Web.
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Java 3D API 1.3 Graphics Technology
Improves Performance and Delivers New Capabilities
Java 3D API version 1.3 enables developers to easily incorporate
high-quality, scalable, platform-independent 3-D graphics into Java
technology-based applications and applets. With version 1.3 developers
now have the power to create applications that can run seamlessly in a
variety of display environments, without code modification.
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Java Technology Core Learning Path
Courses That Lead to Certification
The Java technology core learning path
curriculum provides both programmers and non-programmers the
essential training necessary to become proficient in the basics of
Java technology programming using the Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition (J2SE). The courses in this curriculum provide training on
object-oriented theory, Java programming language syntax, use of the
standard API extensions and the Java Development Kit.
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New Product Marketplace
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PKZIP 5.0 Data Compression Software
Strong Encryption of .ZIP Files, Multiple Levels of Security
PKZIP 5.0 is a data compression software that
uses the new extended .ZIP file format to provide both
certificate-based and traditional password-based encryption and
authentication. This latest version of PKWARE's data compression
application incorporates strong encryption algorithms to deliver an
even greater level of security than has previously been available.
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TowerView Security Software
Analysis and Response to Attacks to Large Enterprise Networks
TowerView Security collects, analyzes and instantly correlates data
from any enterprise security device such as firewalls, intrusion
detection systems, anti-virus software, operating systems, servers,
virtual private networks and continuously displays updates on a 3-D
CyberGrid.
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Green Hills Software's MULTI IDE
Multi-core Architecture
Green Hills Software, a provider of real-time operating systems and
software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems, has
released its MULTI 2000 Integrated Development Environment and
high-speed Green Hills Probe for the StarCore-based MSC8102 digital
signal processor. The new IDE, featuring C and C++ optimizing
compilers and a multi-core debugger, provides a DSP-optimized superset
of MULTI's powerful editing, debugging, profiling and project
management capabilities.
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