Embarcadero Technologies Inc., a provider of application and database
lifecycle management solutions, has had its product Describe 6.0
selected as the preferred universal modeling language (UML) solution
for the Sun ONE Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
This means the Sun ONE community will be the first to leverage the new
functionality and usability features in Describe 6.0 Sun ONE Studio
4 update 1, Enterprise Edition for Java (formerly known as Forte
for Java 4, Enterprise Edition).
UshaComm has just completed performance testing of its optimal billing,
mediation and customer care solution, Unicorn, which was built on the
SourcePro C++ development environment from Rogue Wave.
sentinel3G is a system management solution developed by Functional
Software of Australia that can be ported to the Linux operating system
and the Sun LX50 server. sentinel 3G gives end users access to
Functional Software's monitoring, auto-correction and reporting
software suite to deliver savings of up to 80 percent as compared to
products that run on non-Linux based equipment.
Sun has extended the deadline for the iForce Partner
Excellence Awards to Monday, February 10, 2003 (5 p.m. PST).
The new awards program is co-sponsored by Computerworld. Its goal it
to recognize U.S. iForce Partners who have leveraged the iForce
initiative to achieve customer success.
Scott McNealy outlined the benefits of grid computing in a recent
Information Week article. He pointed to a survey that reveals how IT
administration and training are consuming a far larger portion of the
average IT budget than is productive. Customers want reduced costs and
reduced complexity. Grid computing can help with both concerns.
NetManage now brings its expertise in host access and integration
solutions to the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). Its
years of experience helping organizations unlock value from existing
legacy systems through the use of open-standards technologies and its
knowledge of interoperability issues associated with host integration
are predicted to enrich the deliberations of WS-I.
When Swedbank's investment and merchant banking unit, Swedbank Markets,
which handles institutional and large corporate customers who trade
in securities and derivatives in the equity, fixed income and currency
markets, needed to integrate its trading systems with the risk
management solution Algo Market from Algorithmics, it implemented
Java technology for its integration and data transformation
capabilities.
Live System Upgrade capabilities from Sun are a suite of technologies
that include full hardware redundancy and the Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE). Combining Live System Upgrade capabilities
with Sun Fire servers and the Sun Remote Services (SRS) Net
Connect can minimize downtime.
Boise Cascade Office Products has become a multinational leader in the
fields of office supplies and furniture, paper and technology products,
customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence systems,
data warehousing and B2B e-commerce. Boise's achievements in the CRM
field were recently validated when Gartner named the company the first
winner of its CRM Excellence Award.
Frank Sommers interviewed Oliver Zeng, senior technical lead at Freddie
Mac, for the Jini Community Newsletter about his work on distributed
cluster computing and quantitative model engineering that used Jini
network technology and JavaSpaces architecture.
Public testing of StarOffice 6.1 Beta 1 -- A Sun Open Net
Environment (Sun ONE) offering -- is scheduled to begin on March 3, 2003
and run until May 2. This program is designed to allow users to utilize
the full functionality of StarOffice while helping to improve on
usability and quality of the product.
Mark Tolliver and Hal Stern of Sun will present an interactive
discussion of how Sun's relentless focus on network computing can
increase ROI throughout your organization. Bring your questions on
Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 9-10 a.m. PT (12-1 p.m. ET).
Don't miss Sun's all-out assault on computing costs and complexity.
Scott McNealy and other top Sun technologists will be there. Will you
be there? See firsthand, via live streaming video, Sun's vision for
network computing -- from the data center to the network edge. It's an
all-out assault on computing costs and complexity, and you don't want
to miss it: February 10.
Jonathan Schwartz and Hal Stern of Sun will present "What You Aren't
Being Told About Web Services" on February 12, 2003, to give you the
opportunity to learn about the impact that Web Services will have on
your IT organization and your network and the management issues that
you should be thinking about and planning for today.
The Sun Security Summit on March 4-5 in Washington, D.C. will feature
Jonathan Schwartz and Whitfield Diffie of Sun, and other key executives
and security experts will present strategies for the challenges of
corporate security.
BMC Software is inviting IT professionals to its Enterprise Data
Management Webinar Series ongoing through February. These 45-minute
sessions with a BMC expert will cover topics such as managing database
performance, backups, SQL development and optimizing space.
The Learning and Training Week in Washington D.C. has been expanded to
cover corporate, government and higher education. The expo has also
been expanded to offer more technology and non-technology learning
solutions. The programs will include keynote sessions, workshops,
general sessions, panels and tutorials.
Sun and Transamerica Life Canada present a free, one-hour Web seminar
on how Transamerica dramatically reduced its mainframe costs by more
than 50 percent in ten weeks by rehosting mainframe applications onto
more cost-effective, standards-based Sun systems. The Web seminar will
be Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 9:00 a.m. PST.
The CRM Technology Decisions conference is free to qualified CRM
professionals. The event is in Atlanta, GA, on February 12 through the
14th. This conference presents an opportunity to meet with your peers
who are facing similar CRM challenges.
The Solaris Software Companion CD includes hundreds of Linux and
other Open Source applications, tools and commands built and packaged
for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE). The software
is available for download in pre-compiled binary and source code format.
Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president for Software at Sun, will
make the keynote at the First Annual MySQL User Conference & Expo, to
take place in San Jose, California, April 10-12, 2003. The event will
feature "guru" sesions, four tracks and tutorials.
The Helix platform's third source code component, the Helix DNA
Server, is now available to software developers. This latest release gives developers source code access to a major end-to-end media delivery platform, consisting of producer, server and client components.
Treeps Release 1.2.2 is now available from treeps.org with updates, bug
fixes and new features. Treeps is a graphical process monitor for
Linux, SCO UnixWare and Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) that
provides tree diagrams of running processes and their associated values
for simplified management. Supported desktops include
GNOME, KDE, CDE and fvwm2.
The Sun ONE Studio Developer Resources Web page offers a developer
tip to improve the startup time of Sun ONE Studio 4 update 1, Enterprise
Edition on the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE)
(SPARC Platform Edition).
Engineer Darrly Gove's presentation at the SunNetwork Conference
2002 has been made into a tech tip for developers. He offers
suggestions for getting the best performance from the UltraSPARC
IIICu processor by compiling with the right set of optimization
options. Gove cautions developers to know exactly what the compiler is
doing before releasing the program.
O'Reilly Editor Robert Eckstein has gathered best practices for the
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) for the book "Java
Enterprise Best Practices" with chapters by various authors. The book
is geared toward developers who have extensive experience with Java
technology.
Two books from O'Reilly focus on Perl: "Perl Graphics Programming"
focuses on open-source scripting programs that can be used with
graphics files on the Web; and "Programming Web Services with Perl" is
written for Perl programmers who have no prior knowledge of Web
Services.
Phillip Bishop and Nigel Warren, authors of "JavaSpaces in Practice,"
a book about how to use JavaSpaces technology to build practical distributed
systems, defer to an earlier title on the subject, "JavaSpaces & Trade:
Principles, Patterns and Practice," by Freeman et al., as required
prerequisite reading for those unfamiliar with the subject.
Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie have written "Apache: The Definitive Guide,
3rd Edition," published by O'Reilly, which covers the latest release,
Apache 2.0, as well as Apache 1.3. Experienced Apache site
administrators will recognize the detailed information included in the
first and second editions, as well as an introduction to using Apache
with open source scripting languages and databases.
Kada Systems, a vendor of certified Java 2 Platform, Mobile
Edition (J2ME) software deployment solutions for mobile solution
providers, has released the Kada Mobile Developer Network (MDN), which
gives developers a central location for information and technology
exchanges and provides a place for a community of collaborators in the
development of mobile Java technology applications.
WatchMark Corp. has joined the OSS Through
Java Initiative. The Bellevue, WA, provider of service
assurance software for wireless networks will collaborate on the
creation of application program interfaces (APIs) that foster an
interoperable ecosystem of OSS solutions. The Initiative's APIs
help service providers jumpstart the deployment of end-to-end services
on next-generation wireless networks and leverage the convergence of
telecommunications and Internet-based solutions.
PointBase Embedded, the premier product of PointBase Inc., has received
the Crossroads 2003 A-List Award in the Java Embedded Server software Database category
from Open Systems Advisors Inc. PointBase Embedded is a small-footprint
Java technology Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).
Stalker Software and Sophos are offering an anti-virus solution to
CommuniGate Pro messaging users and customers on the HP Tru64
platform. Sophos supports popular operating systems such as Windows
and Mac, including the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE),
FreeBSD, SCO Unixware and Linux, giving customers a choice in
anti-virus solutions.
A comprehensive new enterprise security survey by The Tolly Group and co-sponsored by Ingrian Networks asserts that data is not being
adequately protected on application servers and databases within
corporate networks. Data is protected as it is transmitted to or from a
remote user, but the data is vulnerable once inside the firewall.
In a cnet news perspectives article, Sun chief security officer and
senior staff engineer Whitfield Diffie presents a case for open source
software. He examines both sides of the debate over open source
software: whether it's better for security than proprietary software.
The iForce Competency Center for Oracle is a collaborative effort
between Sun and Oracle with the goal of delivering proven performance
and sizing recommendations to customers considering or using Sun and
Oracle Applications. The center can provide you with solutions such as
ERP, decision support, help with migration projects, data warehousing,
Oracle supply chain and CRM products.
"Upgrading to Oracle Applications Release 11i," a 22-page white paper,
discusses Oracle Applications Release 11i, which includes 50 integrated
applications designed to help transform traditional companies into
e-businesses and to put them in a position to capitalize on the advantages of
the Internet.
To gain a high degree of uptime and availability, the European
communications company, BT, chose the Oracle9i Real Application
Clusters (RAC), Sun Fire 4800 servers and clustering technology
from Sun. BT wanted to offer its customers reduced failover time and
uninterrupted service for their users. They cut the failover time
significantly.
ViewSonic, the visual display technology equipment provider, upgraded
to Oracle's version 11i to take advantage of the new functionality in
Oracle Order Management and Financials which provides them with more
consistent reporting and a real-time view of business processes.
The Linux and UNIX systems-based printing tool, BrightQ from
Codehost, can now be used with Ricoh networked output devices. With
BrightQ, users can manage printers, complex print jobs and
sophisticated print queues, while providing support for industry
standard printing protocols.
Enterprise-class customers who are migrating to next generation
PCI-X-based systems and need SAN interoperability can take advantage of
the jointly developed protocol from StorageTek and Emulex.They have
certified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/sec. LP9802 and newly released dual
channel LP9802DC PCI-X Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for use
with StorageTek's V-Series family of Virtual Disk storage subsystems,
including the V2X and the V960 Shared Virtual Array disk storage
system, for the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and
Windows.
FileNet P8 helps in the
creation of customized ECM solutions to industry- or company-specific
business problems aimed at improving the business decision making
process, increasing overall productivity, customer satisfaction, and
profitability.
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