Sun reported results for its fiscal first quarter which ended September
29, 2002, and announced plans to reduce its workforce. Planned
workforce reductions will be approximately 11 percent from its first
quarter fiscal year 2003.
Using Sun ONE Studio 4, Community Edition (formerly Forte for
Java 4, Community Edition), IMSure Network Inc. has created four
applications that act as the infrastructure for facilitating and
supporting business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B)
e-commerce.
Customers in the oil and gas industry, manufacturing and research
institutions are no longer limited to expensive large-group solutions
in their choice of enterprise-wide visualization applications. Sun
Visual Collaboration Solutions enable customers to deploy any standard
OpenGL-based application and to choose from a broad list of
display-system vendors to set up visualization environments.
The Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) 2.5.1 has entered
the second phase of end-of-life support. Sun's non-current Solaris OE
support model, called Solaris OE Vintage Support, provides contractual
support on the Solaris OE release for five years from the last ship date.
Several new features in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) update 9/02 include an IP quality-of-service feature, an
updated version of the routing information protocol, packet tunneling and
memory placement optimization.
"Introduction to Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0" is a course that provides
students with background knowledge on the portal technology and product
architecture, emphasizing the differences between Portal 3.0 and 6.0.
The course walks students through the installation and configuration of
the product and instructs them in basic administration tasks. (The
Sun ONE Portal Server was formerly the iPlanet Portal Server.)
There is now a special upgrade discount available on Sun ONE Studio
4, Enterprise Edition for Java, update 1. Users who own Sun ONE
Studio 3.0, Enterprise Edition, a fully licensed Forte Developer
product, the iPlanet Developer Pack (which was recently renamed the
Sun ONE Developer Pack), specific products from
Borland, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle or WebGain, or who have taken any
five-day developer course (classroom only) through Sun Educational
Services, are entitled to a discount on Sun ONE Studio 4 update 1,
Enterprise Edition for Java.
Sun ONE Message Queue software, a middleware technology that
provides support for reliable messaging between applications,
implements the Java Message Service (JMS) API technology standard.
Application developers use this technology in their programs to send
messages to other applications. Performance tuning is an iterative
process of both developing an application that uses Sun ONE Message
Queue software and configuring the software system to meet performance
goals.
The Sun ONE Starter Kit Sweepstakes offers entrants the chance to
win one of several prizes, including a Fujifilm Finepix 30i Digital 2
Megapixel Camera, a Panasonic DVD-LV57 Palmtheater or a Sun Cobalt
Qube 3 appliance. Entries must be received prior to March 7,
2003.
The Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE)
end-of-software-support announcements have been updated for the Solaris
9 OE 09/02 release. Features removed from the Solaris 9 OE include
AnswerBook2 Server software, ATOK8 Japanese Input Method,
and the crash Utility.
Featuring a faster 1.015-GHz UltraSPARC III Cu
processor, the new Sun Blade 2000 64-bit workstation also carries
8 MB of Level 2 cache per CPU, supporting up to 8 GB of main memory
with up to 146 GB of 10,000-rpm Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
disk storage. It fits customers who require the use of visualization
tools to analyze large sets of data on the desktop.
Sun Storage Technology Engineer Art Licht outlines some best practices
for the point-in-time (PIT), non-intrusive backup of Oracle8i databases
using Sun StorEdge Instant Image 3.0 software. He also presents a
method for repurposing PIT Oracle8i data for parallel business
processes.
Sun, Hitachi, IBM and VERITAS have jointly committed to supporting the
standards for Storage Area Network (SAN)-based storage management of
the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). As part of this effort,
the companies are planning to introduce CIM/WBEM-based products in calendar
year 2003.
Sun is announcing x-option arrays for the Sun StorEdge 3900 and
6900 series, providing users of these midrange storage systems with an
easy way to add capacity. These x-option array part numbers are in line
with the current factory-built (ATO) array part numbers, which were
announced on January 8, 2002. These x-option array part numbers are as
follows: XTBEA-N2-655 (36GB/10K), XTBEA-N2-1321 (73GB/10K), XTBEA-N2-S655
(36GB/15K), and XTBEA-N2-Q3240 (181GB/7200).
Sun is preparing to transition the current XT8 Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
off its price list in Q2FY03. Replacing the transitioned product are the
same six JNI HBAs with new part numbers and the native JNI driver for DAS
and SAN connectivity with the Sun StorEdge 9900 series. No other Sun
StorEdge products are supported by these HBAs.
Sun has announced the availability of the Sun StorEdge D240 media
tray servertop-to-rackmount conversion rail kit. The kit allows
rackmounting of existing servertop media tray configurations and is
supported on the following Sun Fire servers: 280R, 3800, 4800, 4810
and 6800.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Document Object Model
(DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification. The DOM Working Group has released
a Last Call Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Validation Specification. The
DOM allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents
dynamically.
Software engineer Eric Reid provides tips for integrating
printing into Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE)
applications. Alice Soteriou has written about basic principles of
printing in the Solaris OE 2.6 and above. Soteriou provides a simple
guide on how to create and administer print servers and clients.
Developers attempting to implement Indic scripts in applications and
systems face challenges such as language diversity, lack of
presentation standards and inconsistencies in character support between
ISCII and Unicode Indic script support. Having a common code and
keyboard for all the Indian scripts would yield many advantages.
With more than 250 authorized training centers in more than 60
countries, Sun Educational Services meets the training needs of nearly
half a million students each year. IDC named Sun one of the top five
worldwide IT education and training providers in 2001.
The Grid Computing Community of Interest, available on the Sun Web
site, offers those interested in grid computing a useful focus for
exploration of the High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC)
architecture and its trends. View white papers, news and profiles of
organizations that use grids to deliver computing power and high data
flow to multiple departments, projects and business partners.
Sun has contributed Sun hardware and Sun Open Net Environment
(Sun ONE) technology valued at
more than $250,000 to the National Education Association (NEA), which
will be used to power and manage the NEA's content management system
project. The contribution comprises four Sun Fire V880 servers, a
Sun Blade 100 workstation, Solaris PC Netlink software, the Solaris
8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and VERITAS Volume Manager.
The Sun BluePrints OnLine excerpt from "Consolidation in the Data
Center" by Ken Pepple of Enterprise Services and David Hornby of the
Global Sales Organization discusses the shift from consolidation
servers to consolidation in the data center. Pepple and Hornby first
discuss consolidating servers, then cover consolidation applications,
storage, shared services, networks and consolidating multiple data
centers into one site.
The Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) 9/02 System
Administrator Collection includes several
guides such as a Font Administrator User's Guide, an IPQoS Administration Guide,
an IPv6 Administration Guide and the Solaris Smartcard Administration Guide.
Also included are guides on naming and directory services, security and
administration.
New courses currently available from Sun include Sun ONE Calendar
Server 5.x: Installation and Configuration (formerly iPlanet
Calendar Server); Sun ONE Directory Server 5.x: Maintenance and
Operations (formerly iPlanet Directory Server); and Sun ONE
Meta-Directory 5.0: Integration and Configuration (formerly iPlanet
Directory Server: Integration Edition). The Solaris Volume Manager
Administration course covers software features.
A favorite of Web content developers since its first release, "Dynamic
HTML: The Definitive Reference, Second Edition" by Danny Goodman
contains all the knowledge needed to create sensible single- and
cross-platform Web applications. The new edition has been updated to
cover the latest specifications, including HTML 4.01, XHTML, CSS Level
2, DOM Level 2, and JavaScript 1.5 software, as well as the latest
browsers--Internet Explorer 6 (Windows), Internet Explorer 5.1
(Macintosh), Netscape Navigator 6 and 7, and Mozilla 1.0.
"Creating Applications with Mozilla," a new O'Reilly release, introduces
application developers to the Mozilla cross-platform development
framework. The guide includes step-by-step instruction and examples of
existing applications, information on modular development and
application packaging, as well discussions of advanced topics such as
UI enhancement, localization and remote distribution.
The Java 3D API renders interactive 3-D graphics using the Java
programming language. Daniel Selman's book "Java 3D Programming"
helps programmers decide whether the Java 3D API is the right API to use.
It also covers user interface design, geometry creation, scene manipulation
and final optimizations.
Author Ivor Horton covers everything the beginning programmer needs to
know to program with the Java programming language and the 1.4
Java Development Kit (JDK) in his book "Beginning Java 2 SDK
1.4 Edition." The book guides you through building an example
application called Sketcher, a simple drawing tool.
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), Version
1.4.1, builds on the cross-platform support and robust security model
of Java technology with new features and functionality, enhanced
performance and scalability and improved reliability and
serviceability. Version 1.4.1 advances rich client application
development and provides the foundation for standards-based,
interoperable Web Services.
John Zukowski explores release 1.4.1 of
the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), which includes
and supports a new version of Java Web Start software, release
1.2. He cites as improvements the one-click download feature for Microsoft Windows users,
the customizable splash icons and the additional encoding support possible
with the new release.
Both client and server versions of Java HotSpot virtual machine
v1.4.1 feature a number of improvements that enable developers to
create more demanding applications in less time. Java HotSpot
technology provides the foundation for the Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition (J2SE ) version 1.4.1 software, which is available for
Microsoft Windows, Linux and the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE), as well as other platforms through Java technology
licensees.
The application model defines how an application is managed and how
management responsibilities are divided between the application and the
underlying system. The Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)
currently supports the traditional, the applet, the midlet and the xlet
application models. Eric Giguere describes each of them.
The SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center
(NIPC) have released an updated listing of the twenty most critical
Internet security vulnerabilities (also known as the SANS/FBI Top
Twenty) for Windows and UNIX platforms. The list, whose sources include experts from
security-conscious federal agencies, security software vendors and
consulting firms, contains step-by-step instructions and pointers to
additional information useful for correcting the vulnerabilities.
The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGI) provides a forum for the
development of open specifications for the delivery of multiple
services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices. OSGI
offers a standard for secure Internet communication.
The common access card model offers organizations a global, secure
identification method based on biometrics and internationally recognized
standards. Common access cards provide single sign-on, digital
signatures and strong user authentication. Use of Java Card
technology provides card issuers the ability to add services and
applications to cards post-issuance or after user needs change.
Security specialists from the Sun Professional Services program say that security is
emerging as a key issue among businesses. Organized crime is getting in the act
as well, going after credit card numbers. Others are attacking the applications
level. To counter such attacks, Sun consultants recommend multiple levels of
security at each level of the network.
Sun has issued a Solaris Ready program certification for Emulex Corp.'s
LightPulse LP9002S 2 Gb/sec Fibre Channel SBus host bus adapter (HBA).
This HBA is optimized for Sun SBus servers providing support for 2
Gb/sec Fibre Channel data rates. It features automatic speed-negotiation capability,
allowing for compatibility with existing 1 Gb/sec Fibre Channel storage
area networks (SANs).
Sun has announced performance test results with a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) based online assessment solution for K-12 and higher
education e-learning markets. Tested and documented in Sun's Global iForce
Ready Center, VIP Tone's Quiz Studio assessment technology solution
supported more than 21,000 concurrent test takers with a single 16-CPU server
architecture Sun Fire 6800 server.
WebWasher.com's new Content Security Management software -- the
WebWasher CSM Suite -- is the first security solution that allows
central administration and filtering of all Web, email and FTP traffic
at the Internet gateway. It includes Internet access management, Web
content filtering, virus and malicious code protection, and email
filtering and reporting.
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