To further its goal of making the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 the standard for Java technology Web Services
development and interoperability, Sun has included full support for the
"Basic Profiles" specification proposed by the Web Services
Interoperability Organization (WS-I). Support continues for such Web
Services standards as WSDL, SOAP, ebXML and UDDI, making the J2EE platform both the
data model and programming model developers require for building
end-to-end applications.
Sun has combined its Sun Developer Connection Partner Program into
its iForce Partner Program, uniting the programs under one banner.
This enhanced partner program will help drive increased multi-company
collaboration to expand the portfolio of customer solutions available
on Sun's network computing infrastructure platform.
The SunTone Initiative is introducing a new SunTone Service
Delivery Specification, consulting services, Reference Architectures
and certification to enterprises. The SunTone Certified brand enables
customers to identify high quality service offerings and deploy them
with confidence. Some of the first companies to achieve SunTone
Certification for their datacenter services are Hershey Foods
Corporation and Siemens Business Services.
The SunTone Service Delivery Specification 2.0 is now available to
both service providers and enterprises. The enhanced specification is a
benchmark to measure open, available, reliable and secure networked
service delivery and management that includes a best practices guide
for assessing service architecture, integration processes and testing
procedures, as well as management procedures and policy requirements.
The new specification is now available for both enterprises and service
providers.
On February 3, 2003, the appellate court granted Microsoft's request
for a stay pending appeal in the copyright infringement and
Java-Must-Carry motions for preliminary injunction that the U.S.
District Court decided on December 23, 2002. Therefore, the injunctions
will not go into effect until they are upheld on appeal.
Sun and Aether Systems will work together on joint solutions built on
open standards using the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) and
Aether's Fusion for scalability and availability. They will work
together to market joint solutions for large field forces in
enterprises and government agencies that perform functions such as
maintenance and service, distribution and delivery, public safety and
healthcare.
With the introduction of its Solaris 9 x86 Operating Environment
(Solaris OE), Sun has moved to guarantee customer continuity and global
support for the UNIX operating system on the entire SPARC and x86 line, as well as on third-party x86 systems.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has launched TranStats, a Web
portal used by its Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to present
detailed analysis of more than 100 databases containing
transportation-related content. TranStats was developed using the
iForce solution for Economical Data Management, which is based on
the Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture jointly developed
by Sun and Sybase Inc.
Sun, the University of Alberta and the Government of Alberta are
working together to establish a Centre of Excellence in Integrated
NanoTools. The center will provide researchers with a nanotechnology
design infrastructure to develop microchips, microsystems and
nanodevices.
The Blueprint Initiative research program at Mount Sinai Hospital's
(MSH) Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto has acquired more
than $5 million in Sun hardware, software and storage for the
Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (bind.ca). The database is a
growing repository of data and research of molecular interactions and
reactions in the human organism and other organisms.
Sun LX50 server VPN/Firewall appliance -- "Secured by Check Point"
software will now be sold exclusively through Sun's iForce
partners in the USA, Japan and EMEA. There are new features for the
software solution such as a hardened version of Red Hat Linux.
Sun is introducing three new localized offerings, referred to as an
L10N release, for its VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 product. This product
is now available in Japanese, French and Simplified Chinese.
Version 3.2 of the VERITAS Volume Manager for the Solaris 9
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) will be transitioned off the Sun
price list.
A Japanese variant of VERITAS File System 3.5 is now available. The
English version will continue to be offered. Version 3.4 of the
VERITAS File System for Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris
OE) is being transitioned off the Sun price list.
WAVE 2003 is an opportunity to see first-hand the wireless voice and
data trends and applications that drive business strategy and decision
making, increase profits and improve service delivery. This year's
forum will be on February 10-12, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Featured
speakers include George H.W. Bush, Former President of the United
States of America; Mark L. Feidler, COO, Cingular Wireless; and Scott
McNealy, chairman and CEO, Sun, one of the sponsors.
The upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco will provide in-depth
information for those who are deploying, developing or investigating
data security or cryptography products. The event will have four main
components: General sessions, an expo, tutorials and class tracks.
There will be a special Adaptive Manufacturing seminar series hosted by
Sun and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, covering four cities in February and
March. Hear about the latest Adaptive Manufacturing trends and
technologies that can help users lower costs and improve efficiency
throughout the value chain. The focus of this event is "Technologies
for Enabling the Adaptive Enterprise."
Upcoming Java technology-related chats in February and March
include topics of Web Services Security, Sun ONE Studio 4 (formerly
Forte for Java) software and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
technology.
Storage Management 2003 is designed to help you get the most out of
your storage operations, especially in today's atmosphere of shrinking
budgets and increasing data. This event is free for qualified storage
professionals and will offer state-of-the-art advice on the processes,
procedures and technologies and unbiased expertise from the leading
independent experts.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and Computerworld
will stage their fifth annual conference and expo, Storage Networking
World (SNW), in Scottsdale, AZ on April 14-17. This event has become the
standard for the industry with an agenda typically crammed with
technology insights and practical, user-focused information.
The Americas' SAP Users' Group, ASUG, is presenting its annual
conference and vendor fair in New Orleans in May. Gain direct access to
SAP through multiple channels and have the chance to meet SAP
representatives and discuss your company's specific business
requirements.
The Sun Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program now offers the Sun
Blade 150 workstation in a factory configured version that includes
Customer Provided Software. Users can now specify options
involving memory, drives, video and other I/O options as well, which
will make solution deployment faster, safer and easier. The
offering also includes factory integration of the Sun LX50 server
and the Sun Blade 150 workstation.
In its three years of being in business, FTL Systems has produced three
generations of its compilation and simulation tool Auriga, known
throughout the industry as the "Billion Gate Design Solution." Now,
large applications that require multiple processor hardware designs
(process control systems, jet aircraft, automobiles) can be developed
in Auriga, whose capacity exceeds anything produced by the competition.
The GNOME 2.0 Desktop is an easy-to-use, advanced desktop for the
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE), version 8 or 9,
SPARC Platform Edition or Intel Platform Edition. It is an
alternative to the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and provides fast
access to the most frequently used applications, utilities and
accessories.
The Sun Rack 900 is now supported as a data storage rack option for
Sun Fire 12K servers and Sun Fire 15K servers. The rack will
accommodate Sun StorEdge S1 devices and Sun StorEdge T3
arrays. Also, a new rackmount kit has been designed to support the Sun
Fire V880 server within the Sun Rack 900, and longer cables are now
available.
The Sun LX50 server will now be available through the Sun
Customer Ready Systems (Sun CRS) program. With the Sun CRS program,
customers can have systems built to their specifications and shipped as complete systems ready to deploy. The Sun LX50
server can be integrated with qualified drives and memory and is
qualified to be racked and cabled in the Sun StorEdge Cabinet.
Sun Cobalt RaQ XTR server appliances with 80 GB SKUs are being
transitioned off the Sun price list. The Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server
appliance is being recommended instead. The Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server
appliance offers new and improved features and functionality on an
enhanced hardware platform.
The 36 GB 10K rpm SCSI NEBS-compliant Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is being
transitioned, and a new 36 GB 10K rpm SCSI NEBS-compliant HDD, is being
introduced. Sun is also introducing the 36 GB and 73 GB 10K rpm Fibre
Channel (FC) NEBS-compliant HDD for the Netra 20 server. The Fibre
Channel NEBS-compliant HDDs are no longer supported on the Netra 20
server platform.
The Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP) is offering new accelerated
storage trade-in allowances: for those
ending in AC1 for systems less than one year old and AC2 for systems
between one and two years old are available.
Selected storage array systems found in the Sun Upgrade Advantage
Program are eligible for trade prior to two years of age.
Sun is offering Sun StorEdge L8 tape autoloader, Sun StorEdge
L7 and Sun StorEdge L8 autoloader bundles with Solstice Backup
software Business Edition and VERITAS NetBackup BusinesServer. Sun is
also transitioning the Sun StorEdge L9 LTO-based autoloader and all Sun
StorEdge L9 autoloader options (it will no longer be manufactured).
Sun has made a 146 GB hard disk drive (HDD) available for the Sun
StorEdge 9980 and the Sun StorEdge 9970 systems as a
replacement for the slower 73 GB HDD. With twice the capacity, the 146
GB HDDs reduce the cost per GB while also reducing the footprint of
both systems because fewer frames and array controllers are required
for a given capacity.
Four new VERITAS NetBackup version 4.5 media and documentation kits for
UNIX systems and Windows have been released in Japanese. The media
kits do not include documentation, which must be purchased separately.
Ramesh Radhakrishnan of Sun Professional Services has devised a
seven-phase method for keeping software up-to-date which he outlines in
his 30-page Sun BluePrints OnLine article, "A Patch Management
Strategy for the Solaris Operating Environment."
There is a 15-page Sun BluePrints OnLine paper by Barbara Perz and
Hans Joraandstad that presents an approach to benchmarking hardware and
software regardless of vendor. The authors divide the task of setting
up a benchmarking scheme designed to evaluate compute resources for
purchase into four categories: goals, commitment, practicality and
defining the rules. They also distinguish between the benchmarking
requirements that apply to High Performance and Technical Computing
(HPTC) environments and those that apply to commercial computing
(database and related applications).
The white paper by Sun engineer Deepak Kakadia on Quality of Service
(QoS) and policy fundamentals covers the end-to-end Network and Systems
Architecture and identifies the complete beginning-to-end path of a
flow. Kakadia analyzes sources of delay, summarizes QoS mechanisms and
functions, and the delays experienced by a non-QoS architecture without
differentiated services. The author also discusses the impact of
applying QoS Policies on Networking and Systems resources in an
integrated solution.
The latest version of sendmail, the UNIX-based email routing
program, is 8.12, has been fundamentally changed with new features,
options and macros. The "bat" book by Bryan Costales and the creator of
sendmail, Eric Allman, covers these changes and provides new chapters
on performance tuning and dealing with spam.
The collection of end-to-end shell scripts put together by Randal K.
Michael in his book "Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting" contains answers to
a number of real-world system administration problems presented in a
step-by-step approach to the process of writing shell scripts.
If you are a corporate user considering adopting MySQL, author and
programmer Alexander Pachev has written a guide to building
enterprise-level database applications with MySQL, "MySQL Enterprise
Solutions."
For tips on how to use the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) technologies to reduce complexity, see Rod Johnson's book,
"Expert One-on-One: J2EE Design and Development." It covers when
to use a distributed architecture, when and how to use Enterprise
JavaBeans (EJB) technology and more.
With a declared focus on innovation, time-to-market and
interoperability, a group of carriers, manufacturers and software
developers, all members of the Java Community Process (JCP) program,
have formed the Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI)
Expert Group. The initial task of the JTWI Expert Group is development
of Java Specification Request 185.
Jonathan Knudsen describes some of the new features of the Java 2
Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Wireless Toolkit 2.0, such as new
emulator skins. Knudsen discusses setting MIDlet permissions and a new
Run via OTA feature.
Large companies and ISVs have been taking advantage of the Java
Application Verification Kit (Java AVK) for the Enterprise and its
testing capabilities. Companies who use it can cite that in their
marketing programs and use the distinctive Java Verified logo. Backed
by the Sun brand, the company can enhance their presence in the market
and increase their credibility.
For a richer API set for image manipulation, including built-in support
for many common imaging operations, John Zukowski encourages readers to
try the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API. He focuses on a set of
image reader/writer (codec) classes that comes with the API but has
been separated into its own installable library, the Java Advanced
Imaging Image I/O Tools 1.0 RC.
@HDL Inc. has released new versions of its products for electronic
design automation. @Verifier and @Designer 3.0, which accelerate
functional verification, have the full support of the Accellera PSL
Sugar 2.0 language. The assertion-based verification and debugging
capabilities available in @Verifier and @Designer are directly
interoperable with the newest release of the Cadence NC-Sim logic
simulation product, LDV 4.1.
Pactolus Communications is offering software- and
hardware-based IP media server products. RapidFLEX Soft Media Server is
the software-based media server implementation. It is available on
commercial, off-the-shelf hardware. The hardware-based solution
consists of IP media server products from Convedia Corp.
of Vancouver.
DC-VPN Manager, a new BGP/MPLS VPN management product from Data
Connection Limited, is now available to the market. An important part of
DCL's carrier-class IP Routing Suite, DC-VPN Manager coordinates the
provision of BGP/MPLS VPNs, in part through its fully portable source
code.
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