To increase design productivity and reduce costs in the
process of designing and distributing digital visual effects for
commercials, television and feature films, Axyz Animation has achieved
distributed rendering across a Linux-based compute farm using Sun
Grid Engine software with Houdini's 3D software solution.
To provide design and manufacturing customers with high-end
visualization solutions across Sun's range of power-graphics systems at
highly affordable price points, Sun and Opticore have made the Opticore
Opus Realizer 1.4 available on the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE).
Sun has received this year's RealWare award for the design and
deployment of AXA Financial's portal platform, further underscoring
Sun's success in the portal marketplace. A highly competitive field of
entries was evaluated for this year's award and presented on June 24,
2002 by CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise and Transform magazines by
the RealWare Award's panel of independent experts, including leading
analysts, consultants and editors.
Sun and other members of the OSS through Java Initiative
have announced the final release of the OSS Common API and of the
Common Design Guidelines. These deliverables help ensure that all
applications developed according to OSS through Java specifications can
be quickly and uniformly integrated into the comprehensive
telemanagement solutions demanded by the industry.
Key accomplishments of Sun's Customer Advocacy (CA) organization over
the last two years include company-wide deployment of Sun Sigma
programs, Sun's first company-wide Product Life Cycle management system
(PLC); and a number of product- and process-oriented Availability and
Quality initiatives. The new executive vice president of Operations and
Chief Customer Advocate will be Marissa Peterson.
Sun has been named by Telstra Corporation Ltd of Australia as the lead
provider of technology solutions and services for Telstra's new
technology environment. This will lower costs for developer communities
and businesses around the world while enabling them to quickly bring to
market compelling online applications, such as unified messaging and
convenient payment solutions on Telstra's networks.
The Sun Sigma initiative is Sun's version of the Six Sigma program that
has been successful at improving quality at major corporations
worldwide. "Sigma" is a Greek letter and is used in statistics as a
measure of variation. Joining customer specifications and variation
provides the method to determine the goal and improvement required for
mission-critical processes. An improvement of one Sigma means a
quantum leap forward in quality.
Sun Certification programs not only provide application developers
working in the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) with the
technical know-how to accelerate software development cycles but also
provide validation for new skill levels that is recognized in the
marketplace.
Three Sun software technologies have been developed to address internal
security issues. The technologies are the Sun ONE
Directory Server (formerly known as iPlanet
Directory Server), the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) and the Java technology platform.
Nancy Weintraub, Director of Competitive Intelligence for Sun asserts
that the "choice of operating system can have a significant impact on
how you can control costs while meeting more stringent service levels."
In her article titled "The Solaris Operating Environment: A Premier
Platform for Services Delivery," she lists what the Solaris 9
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) offers.
Four new downloads available for free are the Sun ONE Application
Server 6.5 (formerly the iPlanet Application Server), Enterprise
Edition Maintenance Update 1 (MP1), the Sun ONE Web Server 6.0
(formerly the iPlanet Web Server) Service Pack 4, the Sun ONE
Portal Server (formerly the iPlanet Portal Server): Mobile Access
Pack 3.0 Chinese Edition, and the Sun ONE Identity Server (formerly
the iPlanet Identity Server) for French, German, Spanish, Japanese
and Simplified Chinese.
For true network security, a company must protect valuable data
resources from unauthorized access from both inside and outside the
enterprise. Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism software delivers
an extra layer of security inside the firewall to protect the
enterprise from unauthorized access. Powerful authentication and single
sign-on capabilities enable Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism software
to
provide a more secure login process, enabling better protection of data
privacy and integrity.
Sun is shipping two new drives with the Sun StorEdge 3900 and 6900
storage systems, the 181 GB high density disk drive and the 36 GB
15,000 RPM high performance disk drive. The new drives provide Sun
customers double the storage capacity in the same footprint.
Sun set another world record on the ECperf software benchmark for a
four-way system with a maximum configuration of four CPUs. The
configuration consisted of three Sun Fire V480 servers with 900 MHz
UltraSPARC III processors running the Oracle 9i Application Server
Release 2. It achieved 36,122 Benchmark Business Operations
(BBops)/min@Std with a price performance of $12/BBops/min@Std.
The Solaris Developer Connection program Web site recently had a
technical article titled "Introduction to Interprocess Communication
Using Named Pipes" by Faisal Faruqui. Named pipes allow two unrelated
processes to communicate with each other. They are also known as FIFOs
(first-in, first-out) and can be used to establish a one-way
(half-duplex) flow of data. Faruqui defines
and explains the benefits of named pipes and provides
code samples of half-duplex and of a full-duplex communication.
Receive a complete bundle of Sun software unlimited user campus-wide,
non-deployment licenses and automatic, quarterly updates with the
latest product revisions when you get the multi-user subscription
version of the Sun Developer Software Academic Edition.
Add a SunSpectrum program Education Account (EA) to your
SunSpectrum program contract between July 15 and September 30, 2002,
and receive 50 percent off Web-based courses and 20 percent off
instructor-led courses.
edu365.com, a tool aimed at improving the Catalan education system via
the incorporation of new technologies into the education community, is
the most recent initiative of Generalitat de Catalunya Department of
Teaching's Educational Computer Programme (PIE) working in
collaboration with Sun. The effort demonstrates that both organizations
hold the same vision with regard to the future of Internet.
There is a 28-page white paper available online titled "E-learning
Application Infrastructure" providing a model for a basic understanding
of the different services that e-learning technologies offer and how
they fit together into an overall e-learning application
infrastructure. The paper provides a functional overview of the
components and processes that make up an e-learning environment.
"Java Management Extensions" by J. Steven Perry is a practical,
hands-on guide to using the Java Management Extensions (JMX)
APIs, the Java technology-based tool for managing enterprise
applications. This 300-page book is a complete treatment of the JMX API
architecture (both the instrumentation level and the agent level),
loaded with real-world examples for implementing Management Extensions.
"SCWCD Exam Study Kit: Sun Certified Web Component Development" by
Hanumant Deshmukh and Jignesh Malavia helps you learn all the concepts,
large and small, that you must know to pass the Sun Certified Web
Component Developer (SCWCD) exam. This 560-page book also includes a
CD-ROM covering all the essentials you need to pass the exam.
Author Houman Younessi's book "Object-Oriented Defect Management of
Software" provides a systematic guide to defect identification,
correction, and prevention in object-oriented software development
projects. Houman Younessi covers key aspects of the software
development process, from planning through software delivery.
Daniel J. Mosley and Bruce A. Posey's book, Just Enough Software Test
Automation, provides techniques to improve software quality and reduce
time to market. It also offers pragmatic approaches to plan and manage
every facet of automated software testing. Included is a complete
sample automation project plan. The book is a practical, hands-on guide
to software test automation from the perspective of test developers and
users.
John Zukowski presents tech tips on converting numeric entries and on
displaying multiline text. He explains how numbers are represented in
Unicode, lists the wrapper classes needed to convert from a string to a
number, and he presents code for each tip. These tips were developed
using Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.4.
An upcoming Java Technology Live Chat on Java API for XML
Processing (JAXP) with guests Rajiv Mordani and Gopal Sharma is set for
August 20 at 9:00 a.m. PDT and 4:00 p.m. (note the special time).
Java technology enables doctors to monitor patients after they
leave the hospital via a cell phone running ECG-Connect software.
Heart patients benefit from the technology, as the cell phone transmits
information to the server every five seconds.
The Java Technology Verification Program is designed to identify
enterprise applications developed with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) technology that are intended to be portable across
different implementations of the J2EE platform. The program outlines
the tests needed to receive the Java Verification certification and
leverages the Java Application Verification Kit for the Enterprise
(Java AVK for the Enterprise), a technology provided by Sun that
enables developers to test their applications using specific guidelines
and rules.
The current version of the Solaris Security Toolkit software is
0.3.8, released in July 2002. It supports Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) releases 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 (SPARC
Platform Edition) and Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8 OE (Intel Platform
Edition). Release 0.3.8 provides enhancements such as updated support
for Sun Fire 15K server Domains and SCs based on SMS 1.2, new undo
capability for scripts, and new Sun Fire 12K server and Sun Fire
15K server finish script for DR support on hardened domains.
The Networking and Security course path provides a broad array of
knowledge and skills for designing and managing networks such as
TCP/IP and LDAP, integration with
Windows environments and how to troubleshoot local area networks
(LANs). These courses also provide the opportunity to acquire specific
skills to handle security issues for the Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE), as well as a broad understanding of Internet
security tools.
To achieve a secure environment that is available, scalable and
manageable, Sun consultants provide security hardening services for your
Sun servers. The Security Hardening Service for Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) focuses on server hardening by utilizing the
Solaris OE controls for identification, authentication and access
control to help mitigate risk to your security infrastructure.
The administrator's overview guide to SunScreen 3.2 software
contains background and reference information needed to properly
configure, monitor and maintain SunScreen 3.2 software. SunScreen 3.2
software provides solutions to security, authentication and privacy
requirements for companies to connect securely and conduct business
privately over an insecure public internetwork.
Meetinghouse Data Communications has added support for the Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) to its AEGIS line of network
authentication software. AEGIS is an end-to-end 802.1X security
solution that provides the most secure standards-based user
authentication for wired and wireless LANs in enterprise and public
access networks.
Princeton Softech has released Princeton Softech's Archive for Servers
5.0 with support for the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris
OE). This advance allows companies to optimize network facilities and
take advantage of high-speed UNIX processing capabilities to archive
large volumes of relational data stored on the Solaris OE. In
addition, processing capabilities for the Solaris OE are now available
for Princeton Softech's Relational Tools for Servers 5.0.
SANgate Systems, a developer of intelligent data movers, has released the
SANblaster S1000 solution for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) systems. The SANblaster S1000 is a
portable data migration solution that eliminates much of the burden,
complexity and cost associated with installing and reconfiguring
storage and is the first in a family of products designed to simplify
data movement among heterogeneous or homogeneous storage subsystems.
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