Sun will incorporate the open interface standard of InfiniBand's
high-speed switch fabric architecture which offers advanced features
for I/O interconnect into future server, software and storage products.
Future InfiniBand-based platforms are expected
to include Sun's next-generation, horizontally scalable blade servers
expected in 2004 and future vertically scalable enterprise servers.
Sun has been awarded a 12-month contract by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the High Productivity Computing
Systems (HPCS) program to assess and develop technology solutions to
address future Department of Defense (DoD) high-performance
requirements.
DM Review 100 has ranked Sun as one of the top ten vendors in its list
covering the business intelligence (BI) market. The annual reader
survey from DM Review consists of the 100 vendors that received the
highest total score from readers based on three equally weighted
metrics: product quality, market share and customer satisfaction.
Sun Microsystems garnered more than half the Asia South RISC/UNIX
server market in unit shipment and revenue terms in the third quarter.
According to International Data Corp.'s Q3 2002 Enterprise Server
Tracker Report, Sun's revenue market share in the region -- which
includes Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, the Philippines and
Indonesia -- rose to 54.6 percent in Q3 calendar year 2002.
Sun and BEA Systems will distribute an evaluation version of BEA
WebLogic Server 7.0 with the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) System Administrator's Kit. BEA will also offer a six-month
trial license.
Sun and the Manugistics Group announced that performance results for
Manugistics NetWORKS Fulfillment 7.0 on the Sun configuration netted a
22 percent performance improvement over previous benchmarks on other
platforms, at a dramatically lower price point.
Sun Microsystems has awarded the Center for Computational Biology at Taiwan
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) for
Bioinformatics. The first Sun COE in Taiwan, NCKU will join an elite
cadre of universities around the world using cutting-edge technology to
conduct research in bioinformatics.
Sun Microsystems of Canada has been recognized by BMO Financial Group
as having distinguished itself by continuously striving for excellence
in the areas of cost reduction, process improvements and innovation.
Sun received the "In the SPIRIT of Excellence" award, part of BMO
Financial Group's Supplier Recognition Program.
Sun's Network Identity Assessment Tool helps a company evaluate what
they need to do to deliver Web Services. It provides a report with
recommendations for improving business process and operational
effiencies. The Sun ONE Platform for Network Identity provides a
complete package for companies to deploy a network identity solution.
Credit Suisse Group has recently implemented SECOR Monitor, an
automated monitoring tool to check the accuracy of trades, executions
or instruments data in the bank's order routing system. The Java
technology-based system tracks trading data, routes them to the middle
or back office for investigation and leaves an audit trail for
regulators.
"Asia Pacific is one of the brighter spots for the telecommunications
industry," according to Sun manager of communications Bill Steen.
Opportunities lie with companies that are "going straight to mobile"
technologies, "and established players who are looking to leverage
content and service delivery through 2.5 and 3G technologies."
Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems chairman, CEO and president, assured Ashlee Vance of IDG News Service that he is not uncomfortable in the least with the Rodney Dangerfield label the media has perennially attached to the company. McNealy said it does not bother him that, like Dangerfield, Sun gets no respect. Sun has been pronounced a goner for much of the past 20 years, McNealy recalled, and the company is still very much alive and kicking.
Changes to the Solaris Free Binary License program will require the
introduction of additional right-to-use (RTU) licenses for the
commercial use of Solaris 8 and 9 Operating Environment (Solaris
OE). For Solaris 9 OE, (SPARC Platform Edition), an upgrade license
for desktop computer systems with a maximum capacity of a single CPU is
being announced. A license for systems with a maximum capacity of one
CPU is also being announced for the Solaris 8 OE.
Prices on the StarOffice 6.0 and StarSuite 6.0 software Small and Medium
Business Pack (SMB) are changing from $1,750 to $1,500. The package
includes a 25-user license. This repricing makes the
StarOffice/StarSuite 6.0 software Small-Medium Business Pack more competitive
with the retail edition of StarOffice/StarSuite 6.0 software.
As of December 3, 2002, a new program became available from Sun called
Sun Software Support Services. This new program incorporates the
best features of Sun Software Only Support (SWON) and iPlanet
Maintenance (recently branded as Sun Software Support services -- Gold,
Silver, Bronze and Subscription Only plans) in two new levels of
service: Standard and Premium.
SunPlex System Clusters can now be delivered through the Sun
Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program. Sun is also announcing the EOL of
some Database and Cluster Platforms.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is heading for New York City, January 22-24, 2003.
Topics include business/emerging technologies, developer issues, Linux use
in government, defense and communications and security issues. The keynoter
is Hector Ruiz, president and chief executive officer of AMD.
Sun's James Gosling, founder of Java technology, will be a keynote
speaker at this year's OOP 2003 Conference in Germany, January 20-24,
2003. Also, Sun ONE University Italy is offering workshops on Java
technology and the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE). The workshops take
place in Turin, Milan, Padua and Rome, Italy.
Two major automotive-themed conferences take place early next year. Sun is
a sponsor and will exhibit at the Automotive News World Congress in
Dearborn, Mich., January 13-16, 2003. The other conference is the 2003
Forrester Auto Summit. This February 18-19 meeting in Los Angeles will
explore the move from a production-driven "push" to a demand-driven "pull"
model.
Sun's Annual Tech Days global tour is stopping in Ottawa next month to
address its community of present and future developers. In addition to a
Developer Day event January 10, 2003, at the Westin Hotel, the tour will
also offer sessions January 9 at two Ottawa universities - the University
of Ottawa and Carleton University.
Sun StorEdge SAN 4.1 features the Brocade Silkworm family of
switches: 2 Gb Brocade Silkworm 12000, 3800 & 3200. These switches
operate with non-price-listed Brocade switches. Sun StorEdge SAN 4.1
adds functionality over version 4.0 (tape fabric, better heterogeneous
support and SNIA HBA API support).
Sun is introducing version 2.2 of the Sun StorEdge 9900 Series
HiCommand Device Manager Software and transitioning version 2.1. New
for version 2.2 is support for the Common Information Model (CIM) 2.7,
Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE), Japanese language,
7D+1P RAID-5, 4D+4D RAID-1+, and additional HiScan HBA support.
Sun has announced the Sun StorEdge 9900 Series Dynamic Link Manager
(SDLM) Version 3.2 for the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris
OE), a Sun StorEdge SDLM Version 4.0 for AIX and Windows NT/W2K. The Sun StorEdge SDLM provides
automatic and manual failover and failback connectivity to the Sun StorEdge 9900
Series storage systems.
The Storage Performance Council (SPC) has released the SPC Benchmark-1
(SPC-1), the first industry-standard benchmark for enterprise storage
systems. The SPC has constructed a complete multi-platform toolkit for SPC-1
that quickly evaluates performance and price/performance using a
variety of storage topologies, including direct-attach and network storage.
New SCSI 73-GB 10K rpm hard disk drive (HDD) configurations are now available for select
Sun StorEdge volume storage products, including the Sun
StorEdge S1 array and the Sun StorEdge D240 Media Tray. The
introduction of the new configurations effectively doubles the capacity
of these products from 36 GB to 73 GB.
Eliminating the backup footprint on a production server is a
requirement for many of today's online, all-the-time e-business
applications. NetBackup ServerFree Agent provides snapshot backup
technology combined with server-free data movement for storage area
network (SAN) environments. A data snapshot can be created in seconds
and then backed up directly from disk to tape. Users can significantly
reduce CPU and I/O overhead from application or database servers while
eliminating the backup window altogether.
Transitioning of Sun StorEdge Products
Sun StorEdge Utilization Suite Software 4.0 Replacing Sun StorEdge SAM-FS 3.5 and Sun StorEdge Utilization Suite 3.5 Software
Sun has announced the transition of Sun StorEdge SAM-FS 3.5 and Sun
StorEdge Utilization Suite software 3.5. The Sun StorEdge Utilization
Suite software 4.0 will replace these transitioned products. It offers
disk-to-disk archiving capability, both locally and to a remote site,
tape-drive sharing on the network, access-control lists and quotas on
space consumption.
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) standard and the
Sun ONE Meta-Directory software (formerly known as the iPlanet Directory
Server, Integration Edition) solution address many of the needs of
the K-12 education enterprise. Part of the Sun ONE Network Identity
Suite, the LDAP and the Sun ONE Meta-Directory solution promotes 24X7 services,
administrative efficiency and communication among parents, faculty
and students.
uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of
higher-education who view an institutional portal as an abridged and
customized version of the institutional Web presence... a
"pocket-sized" version of the campus Web.
Rolf Kersten of Sun asserts his 41-page guide to the Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) will answer 80 percent of your
questions about the Solaris OE. While it does not replace more detailed
books, it contains the most relevant technical
information you will need to know when working with Solaris OE and Sun
platforms. The guide is geared toward those who are new to the OE or
who do not administer it daily.
Sun has a guide that outlines the differences between Sun Linux
5.0 software and the Red Hat 7.2 Linux distribution. The 18-page
document covers differences in how the Linux installer works and a table
of RPM version numbers for both Linux distributions.
The deployment of clusters as highly available platforms has increased
as companies need to reduce costs. Some of the ways the availability of
a clustering solution can be found is by analyzing the availability
offered by the system or measuring it, both in pre- and post-deployment
phases. Ira Pramanick of the Sun Cluster Software Group addresses
the difficulties and benefits of accurately evaluating software
availability in his document titled "Modeling Sun Cluster
Availability."
MySQL Cookbook
Recipes for Building Relational Databases from Scratch
"MySQL Cookbook" by Paul Dubois is bound to become a valuable tool for users of this increasingly popular database becuase it will free them from having to create their databases from scratch. The book's Problem/Solution/Discussion format offers quick solutions to everyday programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or "recipe," a short, focused, ready-to-use piece of code.
The third edition of "UNIX Power Tools" by Shelly Powers, Jerry
Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides offers a complete guide to UNIX
system tips, scripts and techniques. The 1160-page book
contains short articles that are independent of each other.
This book on the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) by Bill
Calkins provides readers with fundamentals of the OE, installing it,
maintaining the system and more. "Inside Solaris 9" from New Riders Press
is 936 pages.
In the book "Programming Jakarta Struts," Chuck Cavaness has written a
guide that will find a wide readership among Java technology
developers seeking to deal with the increasing complexity of the
Java programming language and to save the hours they formerly spent
writing low-level features instead of using well-written frameworks to
build presentation layers. Developers will find more time available to
devote to the business logic at the core of the program.
Appearing on a recent Java technology Live! forum moderated by Edward Ort,
guests Alan Bateman and Yingxian Wang shed some light on the new
networking support that is available for Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition (J2SE) v 1.4.
The Adventure Builder Sample Application Version 1.0 is the first
release of the new Java BluePrints sample application that shows
how to use the capabilities of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) 1.4. Adventure Builder is a basic Web-site travel
application, where customers shop for travel packages by
browsing a catalog of packages.
Java technology Center services can help you protect your
investments in hardware, software and training because they help you
integrate legacy resources into a more flexible and cost-efficient open
environment based on Java technology. Services include architecture
assessment, design and validation, troubleshooting and more.
Solstice OSI 9.0 connects Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) systems to all other Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) systems, as well as provides
access to OSI networks worldwide. Solstice OSI 9.0 is supported on
Solaris 8 OE (SPARC Platform Edition) system in 64-bit mode.
Sun StorEdge A1000/D1000 and Netra st A1000/D1000 carrier-grade storage
subsystems offer the key features providers need for handling large
telecom databases and applications such as Web hosting and messaging.
They offer capacity, scalability, reliability and availability, backed up with Java technology-enabled network management software and the open Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE).
A 180-page Technical Reference and Installation Manual for the
Netra CP2060 and Netra CP2080 CompactPCI boards is now
available. The Netra CP2060 and CP2080 Technical Reference and
Installation Manual describes the hardware specifications, function and
physical properties of these boards, with a description of connector
pinouts, boot sequence, diagnostics, installation and removal
procedures.
The courseware in this learning path introduces students to wireless
technologies and Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)
technology. Courses cover the MIDP and developing mobile
applications with the MIDP and the J2ME platform.
MGE UPS SYSTEMS has released its new UPS Web-Pac software to the market.
This new power management software, when used in conjunction with
MGE's new XML-Web cards or XML-@gent, provides comprehensive and
highly secure management of network-attached uninterruptible power supply
systems from
anywhere on the network. As an industry innovator in distributed
power protection solutions based on TCP/IP and SNMP protocols,
MGE's new Web-Pac management software is the first to offer Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) security that enables safe remote monitoring and
control.
Integrated Software Solutions (ISS) is developing MomentumSP, a
Web-based application to handle global securities processing.
MomentumSP will support domestic and international corporate trust
operations in a straight-through processing environment and streamline
securities processing in a multi-currency, multi-calendar and
multi-time zone mode on a single platform.
Data Connection Limited (DCL) has released its Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP) product, DC-BGP, which forms part of its Internet Protocol (IP)
Routing Suite and has been architected specifically for the
reliability, scalability and extensibility requirements for today's
Internet and next-generation networks. It supports virtual routing,
including BGP/MPLS virtual private networks (VPNs) in accordance with
RFC 2547.
To help gather and use competitive information, Traction Software, a
provider of enterprise weblog software, has introduced a new product,
Competitive Intelligence (C.I.) and Market Research solution, to its
TeamPage Enterprise Weblog. Traction Software collects, organizes and
shares strategic competitive intelligence information from many sources
so it can be leveraged by the right people at the right time for smart
decisions.
The Mailcenter solution from Sendmail provides a cost-effective message
hosting and access solution that overlays the message processing, spam
and virus-fighting, and policy enforcement capabilities in Sendmail's
Mailstream Manager. The solution creates a rich, reliable ecosystem that adapts to existing architectures to minimize disruptions in service, excessive costs or redesign.
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