Save thousands on new Sun Fire server boards by trading in your
tired, bulky, last-generation servers and receive credit toward the
purchase of an UltraSPARC III processor-configured system board.
With each high-performance Sun Fire system board, you can typically
accommodate the workloads of multiple legacy systems. This promotion
expires December 31, 2002.
The Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) is now available to
developers through the Free Solaris Binary License Program, which
provides the operating system without a licensing fee. Users need pay
only the cost of media plus shipping or download-related costs for
rights to use the software on single-processor computers supplied by
Sun or its authorized distributors or based on the Intel x86
architecture.
For a limited time, you can purchase a VERITAS instructor-led or
Web-based course on storage solutions at full price and receive a second VERITAS course of
equal or lesser value at no cost. Under the instructor-led promotion,
both courses/individuals must be booked at the same time and must be
purchased by January 31, 2003. Courses must be completed by March 31,
2003. Web-based courses must be booked by March 31, 2003.
The Sun Fire V100 server is a single rack-unit high that starts
below $1000 (U.S.), and the upgrade to the Solaris 9 Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) can also save you money by enhancing
administrator productivity with better management features.
For a limited time, subscribe to one DigitalThink course at full price,
and receive a subscription to a second DigitalThink course of the same
or lesser value for free. Courses cover topics such as e-business, XML, Perl,
Linux, networking and security.
As a special benefit to students willing to enroll in classes on short
notice, Sun offers a discount on select instructor-led classes in
select training center locations. Deals are available on courses such as
Sun Hardware RAID Storage Systems Administration and Shell Programming
for System Administrators.
Sun has completed the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP 2.0)
standard and made available the final MIDP 2.0 specification, reference
implementation, compatibility test suite and beta version of the
Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Wireless Toolkit 2.0.
Developed by more than 50 wireless industry leaders worldwide to extend
the base collection of Java technologies for mobile devices, MIDP
2.0 supports new and enhanced gaming, graphics, video, audio, security
and many other features for mobile devices, such as cell phones and
personal digital assistants.
Sun has launched a venture with China Unicom to build an end-to-end
Java technology-enabled wireless data infrastructure designed to
deliver enhanced data services to China Unicom's 60 million mobile
subscribers. Sun will provide products and consulting services to
enable China Unicom to go to market quickly with data services on the
Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) platform.
Sun Microsystems has selected Switzerland's Federal Institute of
Technology at Zurich (ETHZ) as a Center of Excellence (COE) in
Biomedical Research. The National Center of Competence in Research for
Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions (NCCR Co-Me),
hosted by ETHZ, is utilizing Sun's high-performance computing systems
(Sun Fire V880 servers and Sun Blade 2000 workstations) and
graphics solutions to aid in the promotion of a new model for medical
interventions and, ultimately, patient care.
DTAC, the leading wireless carrier in Thailand, has chosen a joint
solution from Mobilitec and Sun as the foundation for its new Java
technology and wireless content download services.
M1, a mobile operator in Singapore, has selected Sun Fire servers
and the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) from Sun
Microsystems and mPower software from Mobilitec to deliver a complete,
scalable and robust solution enabling M1 to rapidly deploy new wireless
content and services.
Sun has unveiled a strategy to build up its services capabilities
through an IP Life Cycle approach. New services debuting include Sun Install Check for Volume Systems,
Sun Software Support Services Program, Quick Start Service for Network
Identity, and High-performance eLearning Program.
The Quick Start for Network Identity Service allows the customer to
demonstrate a simple-use case scenario of an open, end-to-end network
identity infrastructure in a lab-style environment. The Quick Start
Service for Network Identity is one of three network-identity packaged
services offered by Sun Professional Services program.
CollabNet, a provider of collaborative software development solutions,
has produced a full port of the CollabNet SourceCast Collaborative
Development Environment (CDE) to the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) as part of its multi-level relationship with Sun
Microsystems. CollabNet will also qualify the Sun Open Net
Environment (Sun ONE) Studio for Java Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) to utilize source code repositories within the
CollabNet SourceCast environment.
Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) x86 Customer Early
Access software is now available for general testing and evaluation.
Though Sun does not offer support for this Intel Platform Edition Early
Access version of Solaris OE, there is an online forum for information and
a download site.
The Sun Quad FastEthernet Hardware Collection offers a series of
guides and a CD-ROM insert. Included are the Sun Quad FastEthernet 2.1
CD insert, Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User's
Guide, Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Release Notes, Sun Quad
FastEthernet SBus Adapter Installation and User's Guide and Sun Quad
FastEthernet SBus Adapter Release Notes.
The Sun System Handbook section on graphics options provides a
Graphics Compatibility Matrix that covers graphics cards, PCI, SBus,
UPA and Onboard options. Also included is a list of components with part numbers and more.
Sun Fire 3800, 4800 and 6800 servers are now available as factory
integratable building blocks in the Sun Customer Ready Systems
(CRS) program. Customers can now order multi-rack solutions comprised
of Sun Fire 3800, 4800 and/or 6800 servers racked and cabled to their
exacting specification systems with Sun StorEdge arrays and/or
other Sun products.
Virgin Atlantic Airways, Britain's second largest long-haul carrier,
has successfully migrated all 90 of its Oracle-based databases from IBM
Sequent systems to Sun Fire 6800 servers. Virgin Atlantic is also
moving applications and databases from its IBM AS-400 and Windows NT
systems to Sun so that all its Oracle databases will reside on Sun
systems.
The engineers at Sun can get your new Sun Fire 3800 - 6800
server set up correctly and quickly with the Sun Enterprise
Installation Services. Phases cover the on-site installation planning
to the system turnover.
The Sun StorEdge Performance Suite 4.0 software L10N version and
the Sun StorEdge Utilization Suite 4.0 software L10N version will
replace the existing 4.0 media kits. Documentation is now available for
these products in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and
Traditional Chinese. Software for these releases is now provided in
French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese to provide more language
options for customers.
Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment is a device-level health
management and diagnostic service for online monitoring, event
notification, fault isolation and proactive fault resolution that
enhances the value of Sun StorEdge arrays and integrated systems.
Enterprise-wide health management and diagnostics services are
delivered by Sun StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager software to
simplify SAN management with a single point of command-and-control for
the storage environment and a consolidated view of key storage
management services.
The Sun BluePrints document by Hartmut Streppel provides basic
guidelines to consider when deploying a campus-cluster solution and
offers helpful tips for setting up sound administrative practices. The
author focuses on single-site level disaster recovery for data centers.
Sun engineer Jim McPherson provides tips for performance tuning of
the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE). Start by determining
what measurements will be valid for your environment and how to obtain them.
First assess your goals, log what you do and measure the changed
performance against the goals. McPherson provides a list of what
to tune and when.
Gideon Rasmussen, CISSP, Information Security Manager of Infostruct
LLC, has written a recipe-style, 55-page document on configuring,
hardening, monitoring and assessing the vulnerability of the
Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE). The document can also
be used as a configuration standard, providing a baseline to audit
against.
Two new titles are now available from Wiley: "Mastering JSP Custom Tags
and Tag Libraries" by James Goodwill and "Java Security Solutions"
by Rich Helton and Johennie Helton.
"JMX in Action" by Benjamin G. Sullins and Mark B. Whipple explains the
Java Management Extensions (JMX) and shows how you can configure,
manage and monitor your Java technology applications at run-time,
as well as break your applications into components that can be swapped
out.
Authors Solveig Haugland and Floyd Jones have written "StarOffice 6.0
Office Suite Companion," a book for the intermediate-level user of
StarOffice 6.0 software and OpenOffice.org 1.0 software.
Qusay H. Mahmoud has written a two-part article, "Secure Internet
Programming with Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4" that
explains how to develop secure Internet applications, including with
the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE). One article is concerned with
the server-side and the other with the
client-side.
The Proposed Final Draft 2 for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) Specification (248 pages) lays out a set of
requirements that J2EE platform products must meet. It specifies
platform architecture, application components, containers, a set of
standard J2EE platform services, interoperability requirements and
platform contracts (APIs, SPIs, network protocols and deployment
descriptors).
In his introduction to over-the-air (OTA) application provisioning, C. Enrique
Ortiz describes the ability to download and install content over a
wireless network, typically on demand. His emphasis is on both Mobile
Information Device Profile (MIDP) 1.0 and MIDP 2.0 and on how the new
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Client Provisioning
specification looks at a high level.
The tutorial on creating a GUI with Java Foundation Classes/Swing
API (J.F.C.) provides background on the J.F.C. API, covers how to use
Swing components and working with graphics. The Swing
components, which are part of the J.F.C. API, can be used with either
Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1 or the Java 2 platform.
In her article, "The History of Duke" Jane Christophersen writes about
"the only non-human to play a major supporting role in launching what
today is commonly known as the Java platform." She describes his
first appearance in a James Gosling presentation in 1995, and Duke's
origins as a literal "representation" of the user in the early user interfaces.
Sun has become one of the initial members of the Internet Software
Consortium's BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) Forum, a new
security-related program for vendors and users of ISC BIND software.
The new ISC BIND Forum will benefit members by focusing on
security-related issues, including early warning on attacks, defects
and patches.
A CERT advisory has been issued, warning of a buffer overflow
vulnerability in Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) X Window
Font Service (XFS). The Solaris X Window Font Service (XFS) daemon (fs.auto)
contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could allow an attacker
to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
The courseware in the learning paths for security specialist, network or
system administator provides a broad array of knowledge and
skills for designing and managing networks, such as TCP/IP, Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), integration with Windows
environments and how to troubleshoot local area networks (LANs).
Do you miss your computer during the holiday breaks? Available any
time you are, Webcasts on the Sun Open Net
Environment (Sun ONE) conveniently provide you with information on a
variety of the Sun ONE products such as application and integration
servers, directory servers and identity management, email and calendar
servers, portal and Web servers.
The Sun ONE Application Server 7
(formerly known as iPlanet Application Server) Installation and
Administration course (Course ID: IAS-1321-90) is an introductory-level
Web-based course that addresses key technologies used by Sun ONE
Application Server 7 to deliver Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) standards for enterprise applications.
The shared filesystem for storage area networks (SANs), CXFS 2.2 from
SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.), can manage up to 32 different client
machines within one SAN. Previously, CXFS handled up to 16 client
machines. This increases the scalability of SGI storage solutions and
eliminates file duplication and the time it takes to move large files
over the network.
Built from the original NASA NASTRAN source code, AI*NASTRAN is an
updated simulation tool for solving extremely large and complex problems.
AI*NASTRAN from SAS LLC contains many enhancements, including elimination of
problem size limits, increased solver speed and a streamlined program
architecture. ANSYS Inc. is distributing the package.
OneSource Information Services announced the successful validation of
the OneSource AppLink Software Development Kit (SDK) and Siebel
eBusiness Applications version 6 and Siebel 7. OneSource integrates comprehensive, up-to-date business and financial
information on more than 1.6 million private and public companies,
drawing from over 2,500 business sources.
Based on the Common Information Model standard endorsed by every major
storage, network, FC switch and system manufacturer, Telaine Observer
enables IT professionals to employ an agent-less solution to discover,
manage and track storage resources across the enterprise.
Christie Digital Systems' newest compact passive stereo 3D projection
solution, the Montage LX33, is targeted at the 3D visualization market.
The Montage LX33 is a fully integrated passive stereo solution that
enables a large viewing audience to see 3D stereo images in
high-ambient light conditions using entry-level Christie projectors
with passive-stereo polarization glasses.
OpenService's upgraded NerveCenter 3.8 correlation and root-cause
analysis solution provides customers with more sophisticated
correlation and diagnostic capabilities. NerveCenter allows companies
to correlate events in real-time from diverse network and security
devices, UNIX and NT systems and applications. It then automatically
pinpoints problem causes, eliminates false positives and escalates
false negatives that otherwise require manual operator analysis.
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