Sun has announced that Elie Simon, 42, vice president of
Sun's Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa region, will succeed Robert
Youngjohns, 50, as Vice President of the Europe, Middle East and Africa
(EMEA) region. Sun previously announced Youngjohns appointment to the
role of Executive VP for Sun's Global Sales Organization.
When you use the Online Support Center (OSC) to log your service requests,
you can now earn exciting rewards with the Accumulator Promotion.
The Accumulator is a "points-for-rewards" program. Customers who
register to participate in the program earn points each week based on
the percentage of service cases they submit via the OSC.
To reduce paperwork and errors in medical documentation, Sun and Source
Medical Solutions Inc. have formed an alliance and created a
reliable and secure ASP infrastructure. Source Medical chose to utilize
the Sun platform for its information management solutions, which are
designed to enable healthcare providers to quickly and easily collect
information about their patients using the latest computer
technologies.
Tecnomen Corp. of Finland has selected Sun's network computing platform to deliver
value-added telecommunications systems for network operators and
service providers globally. The combined platform enables Tecnomen to
deliver innovative service solutions, including multimedia messaging,
wireless email, unified messaging, and voice mail, combined with
prepaid solutions.
In an article originally appearing in "Executive Technology" in August
2002, Scott McNealy discusses "The Many Merits of Multisourcing." The
benefits of multisourcing include an increased ability to focus on the
things
that give Sun more of a competitive advantage, as well as guaranteed
service levels, the expertise of specialists and a substantial return
on investment through utilizing the multisourcing strategy.
Sun developed its iForce Community Initiative with the goal of
providing customers with the specific solution for their needs. Sun has
gathered the best solutions and people to apply their expertise to your
needs and to help you achieve a competitive advantage. The initiative
consists of iForce program solutions, the iForce Centers and the
iForce directories.
Sun Common Mobility Architecture provides a platform for end-to-end
services delivery that addresses the needs of enterprise and service
provider customers. The Sun Common Mobility Architecture supports today's
technologies and is extensible to allow for the rapid incorporation of
future technologies.
Rob Gingell, chief engineer, fellow and vice president at Sun
Microsystems, Inc. recently shared his thoughts on the growth of
network computing, the greatest misconceptions that people have about
the computer industry today and the future of the Sun Open Net
Environment (Sun ONE) and Web Services, its myths and
realities.
Sun has added the more powerful 550 MHz and 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi
processor to its Sun Fire V100 rack-optimized, low-end entry-level
server. With the UltraSPARC IIi processor, the Sun Fire V100 server now
delivers greater performance of up to 30 percent, twice the Level 2
cache and an entry configuration with double the memory at no
additional cost to customers.
The Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) is the technology that
enables organizations to develop and deploy sophisticated Web Services.
The Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) is an integral
component of the Sun ONE platform and provides optimal support for Web
Services, including database servers, high-performance
application servers supporting the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) specification, and secure, flexible presentation
services.
The Sun ONE Meta-Directory (formerly iPlanet
Directory Server: Integration Edition) software consolidates and
integrates identity information spread throughout the enterprise into a
single profile. With this integrated data, user
accounts can be created and maintained automatically.
The Sun ONE Studio 4, Community Edition Bundle (course number
WFB-100-180) provides students with a collection of four Web-based
training courses that introduce the features and benefits of the Sun
ONE Studio development tool (formerly Forte for Java 4,
Community Edition) for Java technology developers and program
managers.
Stanford University and InformationWeek's Boot Camp: Redefining IT
Leadership program delivers leading edge, immediately practical
knowledge across a full spectrum of key business disciplines. This
program is designed for IT Professionals at all levels. This year Boot
Camp takes place on October 20-24 on the Stanford University Campus.
To address the growing need for a more secure and powerful Web Services
platform at an affordable price, Sun delivers the Sun Fire 280R
server which features the 1.015 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor and
the scalable and secure Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris
OE). The rack-optimized Sun Fire 280R server offers a performance increase
of up to 17 percent over Sun Fire 280R servers with 900 MHz UltraSPARC
III processors.
NetBeans 3.4 software offers improved performance and new features
that help developers and programmers save time when writing code. Features
include pop-up Javadoc documentation, live parsing and error marking,
drag and drop support and more.
Documents from the Free Sun Alert program Notifications collection
note vulnerabilities and workarounds. This is a list of recent
notifications with ID numbers.
LinuxSelfhelp.com is a completely volunteer-supported Web site that is
devoted to helping Linux users help themselves by making the best and
most current documentation available to the Linux community in the
easiest, most intuitive manner possible.
"Universal Command Guide: For Operating Systems" by Guy Lotgering, is
the ultimate operating system reference with over 8,000 commands and
57,000 command options from every major operating system including
Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, Macintosh and DOS. This reference
book describes and illustrates every command in every commonly used
operating system, and cross-references each command to the equivalent
commands in other operating systems, thereby bridging the gap between
all the different operating systems available today.
"Java and XML For Dummies" by Barry Burd shows experienced Java technology
developers how to start incorporating XML data in their applications.
Topics covered in this 408-page book include Java technology and XML Bindings, SAX
(Simple API for XML), DOM, Java API programming tools for handling XML,
using XML to solve real-world programming problems, turning Java technology
objects into XML and databases in XML.
The book "Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to
Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems" provides
practical guide to designing, deploying, and maintaining network
defenses. The 712-page book from New Riders Publishing offers the
expertise of the SANS team and a practical, comprehensive solution
to defending your network perimeter.
The fifth edition of "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide" by Chuck
Musciano and Bill Kennedy is an all-inclusive, up-to-date book that
covers Netscape Navigator 6, Internet Explorer 6, HTML 4.01, XHTML
1.0, JavaScript 1.5 programming language, CSS2, Layers and all of
the features supported by the popular Web browsers.
"Network Programming with Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4
(J2SE)" by Qusay H. Mahmoud provides an overview of the new features
and enhancements in this release and how to use them effectively.
Mahmoud offers some guidelines (and power tools) for troubleshooting
your network applications in his article as well as additional
technical resources, code samples and illustrations.
Qusay H. Mahmoud addresses the lack of support for command-line input
password masking in the Java technology command-line, text-based,
input/output APIs. With Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) Java
Foundation Classes/Swing API (J.F.C./Swing), this is not a problem.
Mahmoud provides a brief overview of password masking, describes the
AWT J.F.C./Swing API utilities for password masking, and provides a set of
classes as a solution to the command-line input password-masking
problem.
"Wireless Java Application Security, Part 1"
by Jonathan Knudsen is the first of a series of four
articles about building security into wireless Java technology applications.
Knudsen's article covers cryptography, ciphers and keys, key
generation, message digests and signatures, and certificates and key
management.
Sun ONE Studio (formerly Forte for
Java) provides a complete environment for end-to-end development of
wireless Web Services, with full Java Platform Debugger
Architecture debugging software. Wireless Web Services can be
used with Java technology-enabled Nokia mobile phones, such as the
6310i. Vaughn Spurlin provides a step-by-step guide to creating a
simple Web Services example and testing it with the Nokia 6310i
emulator.
Surround SCM from Seapine Software is an affordable
cross-platform software change management solution that
provides complete control over source code changes to software
development teams that require remote access, integrated defect
tracking and advanced branching and merging capabilities.
BoostWeb 4.2 is a standards-based software
solution that accelerates browser-based enterprise applications and Web
content, increases transaction rates and enterprise user productivity
and reduces network traffic, allowing enterprises to maximize existing
corporate bandwidth and reduce costs. BoostWeb 4.2 supports
comprehensive data security via OpenSSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
technology as well.
Jeeves Solutions has selected DataDirect Connect for ODBC to help port
the JeevesOne application to Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris
OE). DataDirect Connect for ODBC provided the only data connectivity
technology with consistent functionality for both Solaris OE and
Windows, allowing Jeeves Solutions to maintain a high level of
consistency in the JeevesOne codeline, reducing development and
maintenance costs.
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