Sun Microsystems plans to broaden its Sun Customer Ready Systems
(Sun CRS) program and ship entry level servers pre-loaded with FIX
software solutions by early 2003. Use of the factory integration
program will help lower acquisition costs and decrease complexity for
financial institutions ready to board the global FIX protocol network
as a means of increasing straight-through processing (STP) rates.
Sun has expanded its enterprise learning solutions with the globalized
Sun Enterprise Learning Platform. The new Sun Enterprise Learning
Platform now provides greater functionality for French, German, Korean,
Japanese and simplified Chinese language users who can now enter data
using their specific language and cultural conventions.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the winners of its twelfth annual
Supplier Awards Program. The Supplier Awards honor those companies who
make outstanding contributions to Sun Microsystems' ability to deliver
superior quality and value to its end customers.
A Global SWIFT Interface solution will now be offered on the Sun
platform. SWIFT is the world's largest financial payments network.
Sun and SunGard Business Integration made the announcement at
the Sibos 2002 conference in Geneva recently.
Sun has opened a new Executive Briefing Center and iForce Solution
Center in Menlo Park, CA. The Executive Briefing Center and Sun iForce
Solution Center are a powerful combination providing a truly
interactive experience that gives customers a hands-on experience of
the solutions Sun and its partners can deliver and fuels
innovation by providing a glimpse into other possibilities.
Targasys, a division of the Fiat Auto Group, has created Targa Connect,
a business unit that provides special "infomobility" services to
drivers. The interaction with the customers goes through a contact
center, where Connect ensures the availability of an operator 365 days
per year, 24 hours a day. The services are activated on the dashboard
of cars, on GSM mobiles, intelligent mobile GPRS phones and on PDAs.
Nasser Iravani, group manager, Mobile Wireless Market Development at
Sun, urges manufacturing executives not to let the paperwork frame of
mind bog them down in outmoded processes. Businesses that implement
mobile technology will enjoy the tremendous opportunities for growth
that result from the efficiencies available through adopting mobile
solutions. According to Iravani, a standards-compliant open
infrastructure that can scale and adapt to changing conditions is the
key.
According to Wolfgang Gentzsch, director of Grid Computing at Sun, the
Grid, like the Web, will be ubiquitous. It will simply become the basic
IT infrastructure for all markets, where it makes sense. What
hardware/software companies can and will provide is the appropriate
hardware and software stack, the gridware, which helps organizations
meet their IT requirements on top of these grids.
The Speech Integration Group from Sun Microsystems Laboratories is
exploring software architectures and design issues for speech
applications and is developing a platform that enables efficient
development and deployment of real-world speech systems.
Governments at all levels are responding to the acute need for better
inter- and intra-departmental collaboration and communication across
agencies. Many have adopted the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)
architecture and platform to provide an open, flexible, robust, secure,
scalable and manageable framework.
Altio, a member of the Sun Developer Connection program,
provides an XML-driven software platform for building and
deploying enterprise applications in a browser, based on Java 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology. Altio serves
financial institutions seeking to provide browser-based access to
complex financial applications. It aids routing, analysis and
manipulation of a large volume of updates per second, delivering
pricing and market data via a dynamic, visual interface.
Jini.org went through a major structural change in June, 2002, and it is
now built on Sourcecast software from CollabNet. The new architecture
and site design provides a better information structure, as well as the
tools to better enable distributed collaborative development. The
Jini.org Web site provides transition FAQs addressing questions of a
general nature as well as issues pertaining to individual usage,
projects and project owners.
Johnson Controls, a manufacturer of automotive systems and building
controls, has deployed a global messaging infrastructure based on
Sun ONE Directory Server (formerly known
as iPlanet Directory Server) that offers both a worldwide employee
directory lookup service and an application security service.
GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 2, an advanced user environment from Sun for the
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE), is now ready for
testing and evaluation.
Blade Server computing could provide a solution to many business
challenges such as maximizing precious data center real estate,
utilizing resources to their best advantage, reducing infrastructure
complexity, managing costs in a volatile business environment and
delivering highly available and reliable IT platforms and services. The
18-page white paper, "The Next Wave: Blade Server Computing," discusses
how the technology can be utilized.
The white paper describes the architecture of the Sun Fire V480 server
in detail, beginning with a system block diagram. It includes a
detailed explanation of the UltraSPARC III Cu processor design, along
with descriptions of the memory subsystem, PCI Bus, standard
interfaces and supported peripherals.
With the introduction of new Sun Fire Midframe UltraSPARC III
processor-based systems now more than a year old, Sun has opened Phase 3 of the
Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 server product line end of life (EOL). Key
components such as system boards, CPUs and memory will continue to be
available. Also being transitioned from the price list are the 250MHz/4MB
UltraSPARC II x-option module microprocessors and the Sun Creator 3D
Horizontal Graphics card.
The Sun StorEdge 3300 Series products extend Sun's promise of
Complete Storage Solutions by delivering enterprise features into the
workgroup. Available October 15, 2002, the new storage arrays will
enable small to medium businesses do more with less. Open to
heterogeneous environments, these products are ideal for Sun customers
who need compact, ultra-dense, ruggedized disk arrays to simplify
storage planning and management. The first product in the series will
be the Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI array.
Sun ONE Studio 4 Update 1 (formerly Forte for
Java) provides broad coverage of the Java
Language Specifications as well as support for native code development
on the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE).
The Sun Global Application Developer Corner provides information
and resources to help developers globalize their applications. In the Q
& A section, questions are answered by the Global Webmaster. A recent Q
& A covered how to install Cyrillic fonts on Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE).
Sun ONE Messaging Server (formerly iPlanet Messaging Server) is
a flexible, sophisticated product designed to meet the communications
needs of service providers and enterprises alike. The white paper
explores the architecture, design, performance and deployment features
of the product to acquaint the technical reader with Sun ONE Messaging
Server. The paper also addresses the security features that block spam
messages and presents performance test results of how the server handles
many concurrent users.
The Sun Migration Expert Portal assists with the issues of Windows NT
to Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) migration through an
online process that offers ISVs, developers and architects information
and tools such as code samples, articles, technologies and education
resources.
Software engineer Oyetunde Fadele developed an image-processing
application to compare the effectiveness of mmap versus read in
performing file I/O. Fadele's tests, performed on a Netra 30
workstation running the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris
OE) show that file I/O performs better with memory mapping than with
traditional read/write/lseek system calls.
The Learning Portal, part of the Sun Network Academy Program (SNAP) is a
resource for students and instructors concerned with preparation of system
administrators for the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and
the UNIX system. Other resources include the College Resource and
Instructor Support Program (CRISP) administered by North Lake College in
Dallas, Texas, and the Cisco Networking Academy.
The Digital Libraries Consortium aims to keep Sun customers up-to-date
with relevant Sun Technology and open standards initiatives, to provide
support for the user community and to provide a forum to discuss
recent developments.
The Authorized Sun Education Center - Academic Initiative offers basic
technology skills training. The IT Workforce Development program delivers
basic technology literacy training and technical training on Sun
technologies and provides students and instructors with leading edge
technology solutions from Sun and solution partners.
Sun has created the StarOffice software Teaching Community to serve
primary and secondary schools that have adopted StarOffice, the full
features office and productivity suite from Sun, and are working to
integrate this powerful tool into curricula and instruction.
E-learning in K-12 is a Sun education community of interest, designed
to connect you to technology, resources and experts. Sun builds and
supports communities of practice, sponsor events and publish high
quality resources to further partnerships with educational
institutions.
At the recent EDUCAUSE 2002 Conference, Sun shared its booth with
universities and solutions providers to demonstrate how Sun technology
is being applied in administration, infrastructure, digital libraries
and e-learning. Participants included Wayne State University, NYU
and WGBH.
The Sun BluePrints OnLine article by Sam Halabi and Bill Cormier provides
an overview of the various approaches to
designing optimal network high availability solutions. The authors
analyze the components of a typical corporate customer's network and
its logical partitioning to illustrate the protocols that provide
resiliency.
"Introduction to the Cluster Grid -- Part 2" by James Coomer and Charu
Chaubal describes the Sun Cluster Grid design phase, which includes
information gathering, design decisions, installation and management
considerations, along with example implementations. The article in the
September 2002 Sun BluePrints OnLine shows how the Sun Cluster Grid
can be applied to basic computing environments, or scaled for larger,
more complex environments supporting business critical solutions.
"Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition" by Aeleen Frisch is the
definitive guide for UNIX system administration, covering all the
fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent UNIX
systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE), Tru64 and more. "Essential System
Administration" provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the
real-world issues that anyone responsible for a UNIX system faces
daily.
Prentice Hall has published two new titles that are written for
developers and programmers who need a hands-on approach to learning
JavaScript programming language quickly -- "Advanced JavaScript:
Insights and Innovative Techniques" by Dan Livingston and "The
JavaScript Training Course: A Desktop Seminar From Allen Wyke and Jason
D. Gilliam."
Prentice Hall has just published two books on Java technology Web
Services: "Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers" by Harvey M.
Deitel and Paul J. Deitel and "Web Services Explained: Solutions and
Applications for the Real World," by Joe Clabby.
Hewlett-Packard security architect Donald L. Pipkin has updated his
book, "Halting the Hacker: A Practical Guide to Computer Security,
Second Edition," to include today's most critical threats, tools and
responses. Pipkin's book offers practical, step-by-step countermeasures
for protecting any HP-UX, Linux or UNIX system.
The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) has delivered a complete
specification, TCPA 1.0, for building trusted computing platforms atop
trusted hardware. In "Trusted Computing Platforms," leaders of the
initiative illuminate TCPA for every systems developer and
decision-maker by placing TCPA in context, outlining its goals,
techniques and powerful implications for the future. The book also
explains how TCPA can be used to protect data, software environments
and user privacy.
Eyal Menin's book, "The Streaming Media Handbook," covers
practical solutions for Webcasts, media-on-demand and private corporate
intranet applications. "The MPEG-4 Book" by Fernando Pereira and
Touradj Ebrahimi provides practical solutions for next-generation
multimedia applications.
"VoiceXML: Introduction to Developing Speech Applications" by James A.
Larson introduces the process of developing speech-enabled
applications. This text answers fundamental speech user-interface
questions as well as skills, practical steps and pragmatic solutions
for developing user-friendly speech applications.
In his book "Java NIO," Ron Hitchens explores the new New Input/Output
(NIO) API for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
version 1.4 in detail, showing developers how to use these features to
greatly improve the efficiency of the code they write.
Norbert Lindenberg's article, "Developing Multilingual Web Applications
Using JavaServer Pages Technology", starts with a brief introduction to
the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies, for a better
understanding how to use them to approach internationalization issues.
His article also discusses several core problems intrinsic to the
development of multilingual Web applications, and describe how to solve
them using JSP technologies: locale determination and localization,
character encodings and formatting and parsing.
The Wireless Messaging API (WMA) 1.0 final specification (Java
Specification Request 120) is now available for download. The WMA is
an optional package for the Java 2 Platform, Mobile Edition
(J2ME) that provides platform-independent access to wireless
communication resources.
Sun evaluated the open source uPortal code to allow best practices
and design patterns of Java technology development, thereby assuring top
performance in heterogeneous university and college IT environments.
With the uPortal framework gaining momentum throughout the education
community, Sun reinforces its support of the JA-SIG to further promote
collaboration and the sharing of applications and best practices among
higher education institutions.
HeyAnita Inc. has released its FreeSpeech Gateway Server, Version 3.0,
a high-performance, integrated, media server software solution that
empowers companies with flexibility and choice, including support for
most leading operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE), Linux and HP-UX.
MigraTEC has selected JB Cubed to act as its sales agent for the
federal sector, marketing MigraTEC's 32Direct and 64Express automated
enterprise application migration solutions in addition to the company's
OS/2 migration services to the federal government and major IT
contractors.
Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC), a provider of
Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market, has
announced new high performance features in the latest version of its
StorNext Management Suite (SNMS) data management software for Storage
Area Networks (SANs). The new features will give IT departments
guaranteed service levels for selected applications, as well as
expanding supported media environments to include additional high
performance, enterprise-class tape technologies.
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