The release of the new eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
(XACML) OASIS Open Standard for security under an open source license
has been announced by Sun Microsystems. XACML, which is a specification
for expressing policies in XML, aims to lower the cost and simplify the
deployment and development of Web Services.
The goal of the Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI)
Expert Group, Java Specification Request (JSR) 185, is to agree on a
standard platform for Java technology-enabled mobile phones.
Members from the Expert Group made statements and testimonials in
support of the JSR 185.
To simplify the quality assurance process and lower engineering costs,
Sun is introducing a software test suite tailored for Java
technology enabled-mobile devices. The Java technology Device Test
Suite will evaluate, validate and verify the quality of Java 2
Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) implementations on a device before
it is made commercially available.
For customers looking to upgrade their business continuity plans, Sun
and SunGard Availability Services will offer disaster recovery and high
availability services as part of a strategic alliance. Customers can
combine Sun StorEdge Availability Suite software, the Sun
Enterprise Continuity or TruCopy technology to extend clusters and SANs
over distances.
Technology from Sun and LocatioNet is being used by NEPs to deliver
tested and tuned mobile information applications for today's
competitive wireless market. The Mobile Location Services Reference
Architecture is built on the Sun Fire V1280 server, Sun Fire
280R server and Sun Fire V480 volume servers, and LocatioNet's LBS
Middleware, GIS Engine and Applications.
O2 Netherlands has turned to mBalance and Sun to provide the TextPass
Intelligent SMS Monitoring, Statistics and Routing solution it requires
to deliver mobile anytime, anywhere services such as GSM, SMS, WAP,
GPRS (and soon UMTS) to its clients.
Sun and Bytemobile Inc. will deploy Bytemobile's Macara Optimization
Service Node (OSN) software running on Sun Netra 1405 servers for
the mobile operator environment and the Sun Fire V100 and Sun
Fire V120 servers for the enterprise environment at Sun's Wireless
Solution Center in Menlo Park, California.
Sun has partnered with Ford Research Laboratory to create the Vehicle
Consumer Services Interface. The architecture allows for a range of
information services and devices to be added to a vehicle design.
Devices such as cell phones, pagers and PDAs could all be enabled to
offer future car buyers custom information services from their vehicles.
Sun has collaborated with Softwired to incorporate the Swiss company's
iBus//Mobile solution into the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)
platform. This venture will promote seamless access to Web Services for
enterprise mobile users of Java Message Service (JMS) applications.
A collaboration between Sun Microsystems, Sybase and SPSS has resulted
in the development of an analytical business solution that will allow
healthcare organizations to detect and fight back against fraud. The
Predictive Fraud Detection solution may also help healthcare organizations
comply with federally mandated Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements.
AdvanceMed Corporation has chosen the Sybase Solution for Economical
Data Management to power its CompareCare analytic and reporting
solution, which runs on the 8-way Sun Fire V880 server and Sun Fire
V480 servers.
Sun and Nokia have signed an agreement on digital content delivery for
wireless applications and services. Sun Services will resell the Nokia
Delivery Server as part of Sun's new Data Service Delivery Framework
(DSDF) to service providers and operators.
The Amdocs Enabler from billing and CRM product provider Amdocs and its
extended configurations (Amdocs Mobile and Amdocs Wireline)
demonstrated unmatched scalability and performance capabilities in
recent benchmark tests running on Sun servers. The tests utilized
real-world customer scenarios and were monitored by a number of Amdocs
tier 1 customers.
Texas Instruments has migrated the systems for its accounting, logistics,
material management, sales and distribution, and production planning and
control functions to SAP 4.0B using Sun Fire V880 servers and Sun Fire 6800
servers running the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE).
At Sun's Network Computing 03 Web event on February 10, 2003, Sun's
Chief Strategy Officer Mark Tolliver talked about Sun's business vision
and demonstrated how all the pieces of the network computing strategy
fit together.
Seeking to demystify what Sun has defined for a year or more as "a
vision, an architecture and a set of products," Mark Jones, Tom Yager
and Steve Gillmor of InfoWorld pressed Steve McKay, Sun vice president
for N1, for a more specific and less rarefied explanation of exactly
what N1 is.
The use of information technology (IT) in the healthcare sector is
rapidly changing. IT is increasingly being leveraged for better process
management and more customer-focused product and service applications.
Sun and its ISV partners are providing a broad range of e-transaction
solutions to new challenges facing payors.
Seeking to improve the efficiency of its IT enterprise systems through
SunTone certification, Hershey underwent a SunReady
Availability Assessment. Sun Services then certified Hershey's data
center infrastructure as an efficient and cost-effective enterprise
environment at the 2.0 Level and awarded the company SunTone
Certification.
CeBIT 2003 will be held in the Hannover Congress Centrum in Germany.
Exhibitors in Internet park will showcase Java technology
solutions, Linux, 3-D graphics, m-commerce, banking and financial
services, IT security and more. Researchers will be featured at the
"future parc."
ICT World Forum @ CeBIT 2003 will be held March 10-11 in Hannover, Germany.
The program is an invitation-only event for chief level leaders in ICT. This event will take place just before CeBIT. Speakers from Alcatel, Samsung and more are scheduled.
Sun and Systinet will co-sponsor a free, half-day tutorial for Java
platform developers that will focus on creating and deploying SOAP Web
Services on February 25 at Sun's Santa Clara, CA, campus.
Senior Sun Engineers, Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall, will be featured
in a seminar on the changes to the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) up to the Solaris 9 OE. The complimentary and exclusive
breakfast seminar is scheduled for Wednesday March 5, 2003, in
Sacramento, CA. They authored the book, "Solaris
Internals: Core Kernel Architecture."
With SWIFTNet migration mandatory in 2004, and penalty fees coming for
those who haven't complied by Q4 2004, SunGard Business Integration
and Sun Microsystems are presenting three half-day executive seminars
starting in February. SunGard will also be presenting a breakfast on
the latest advances in straight-through processing (STP) in March.
The Food Marketing Institute's MARKETECHNICS trade event focuses on the
products and services specific to the retail/wholesale community. Sun
and other companies such as American Express, IBM, Microsoft and NCR
will be exhibiting technologies at this event.
MassWIT is hosting its inaugural Women's Leadership Conference on March
6, to coincide with International Women's Day. The event, sponsored by
Sun, will explore how women lead and live, as well as emerging trends
in technology. The full-day event will feature top women speakers, an
evening expo with reception and other festivities.
The Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2003
Conference & Expo will be held on February 24 - 25 in the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. The focus will be on both the technical and business aspects of IM.
The Sun Fire V1280 server is an entry-level server that provides
enterprise-class features such as Hot-swap CPU/memory boards with
Dynamic Reconfiguration, System Configuration Card (SCC) for rapid
transfer of system identity, LOM and more. It offers a balanced
performance of processors, memory, network and storage.
The performance of the Sun Fire 12K server and Sun Fire 15K
server has been improved with the addition of a Memory Placement
Optimization (MPO), a feature of the Solaris 9 12/02 Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) which is needed to take full advantage of these
new models. Other improvements include new features to the warranty.
The Sun Fire B1600 Intelligent Shelf is geared towards users
wishing to reduce time-to-market while accommodating growth and lowering
costs. The shelf is a 16 slot, 3U chassis offering 5x server density
over typical 1 processor 1U servers. Integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch
fabric and fully redundant components are also featured.
For customers who want to upgrade and enhance the functionality of
their existing Sun Fire V880 server system to be equivalent with
the Sun Fire V880z system, Sun is offering an upgrade promotion.
The Sun Fire V880 server to Sun Fire V880z server system upgrade kit
includes Sun XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator board, Removable Media
(RME) console bezel and associated software.
Sun has released a new network array storage product, the Sun StorEdge 3310 NAS, that is designed
to complement Sun Fire Blade Server products. The NAS
solution is rack-dense and scalable, and represents an
"entry-level" solution. Customers should be able to implement incremental
storage for the support of their servers, cutting down on the
individual configurations and complex components of other storage
types.
Sun StorEdge Linear Tape Open (LTO) Generation 2 SCSI Tape Drive
for Sun StorEdge L180 tape libraries and Sun StorEdge L700 Tape
libraries features a 30 MB/sec. transfer rate and a 200 GB capacity
(doubling the capacity and performance of the LTO Generation 1
Drive). Sun is also offering a 10 Pack LTO Gen 2 media with 200 GB
capacity.
Sun is reducing the price of the Sun StorEdge T3 array, Sun
StorEdge 3900 and Sun StorEdge 6900 series. These storage
arrays and systems have been very well received by the market. This
pricing action will enable Sun to extend momentum and continue to
provide customers with affordable storage products that meet market and
business requirements.
JBoss 3.0 is quickly becoming an application server of choice as
indicated by its number of downloads. JBoss Group LLC announced that
more than two million people downloaded JBoss 3.0 in 2002. It provides
high-quality, Java technology-based, cost-effective platform for
developing scalable, secure Web applications.
In his new Sun BluePrints OnLine article, "Building OpenSSH --
Tools and Tradeoffs," Jason Reid updates the information in the July
2001 Sun BluePrints OnLine article he co-wrote with Keith Watson,
"Building and Deploying OpenSSH for the Solaris Operating
Environment."
The GNOME Foundation and Bitstream will release ten fonts (serif, sans
serif and monospaced) under an open source license after they have been
adapted to meet the requirements for technical use. The GNOME
Foundation will incorporate the fonts into future GNOME releases.
samhain has been developed for use as a file integrity/intrusion
detection system for Linux and UNIX systems with such optional uses
as a client/server system that can provide centralized monitoring for
multiple hosts.
Jack Shirazi has updated his book "Java Performance Tuning" with a
second edition. The original book, which taught experienced Java
programming language developers how to improve on the speed and
performance of their Java technology applications, is now supplemented
with several new chapters on topics such as optimizing the performance of distributed systems.
Two books from Wiley address the needs of network planners working on Ethernet networks and content providers and others working on messaging applications.
In his book, "Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and
Tools," Rob Flickenger has compiled a tool for Linux system
administrators that goes beyond the basics available online and
provides his readers with information that will enable them to
manage the high-performance system confidently and competently.
Software consultant, David Gallardo, has written "Java Development
with Eclipse," a new book aimed at providing a comprehensive guide to
using the new open source, Java technology-based, extensible
development platform. The book illustrates how to use the Eclipse features
and plug-ins, all in the context of real-world Java programming
language development.
Jonathan Knudsen's article "Understanding MIDP 2.0's Security
Architecture" explains at the outset exactly why the Mobile Information
Device Profile (MIDP) works so well as a platform for mobile devices.
Knudsen attributes part of the credit to the Java technology
programming model; the rest of the credit he grants to the security
architecture designed into MIDP 2.0.
In part one of his two-part series on Bluetooth, Qusay H. Mahmoud
presents the basics of Bluetooth technology for wireless applications,
distinguishing between infrared and IEEE 802.11b technologies and
Bluetooth.
The MIDP 2.0 Push Registry, Enrique Ortiz points out in his January
2003 article on the subject, controls application lifecycles, including
installation, activation, execution and removal, while it also exposes
the push API and records instances of push registrations.
With their new jointly developed, end-to-end mobile environment, Sun and
Alcatel are targeting service providers who need to offer enterprise
applications over wireless networks.
Synplicity Inc. has added gated-clock reporting and source-code level
partitioning to the newest version of Certify, its verification
synthesis software, that will give designers increased insight into the
ASIC prototyping process.
Opsware System 3.6 includes an automated
configuration tracking capability that tracks the manual changes made to
applications and servers within a data center. It provides a one-click viewing of configuration history and one-click
restore to any previous server configuration version.
IONA, a provider of Rapid Integration software, has announced the
availability of Orbix ASP Mainframe Edition v5.1. The release, which is
based on IONA's Adaptive Runtime Technology, aims to deliver both
scalability and performance advantages -- much like a "Service-Oriented
Architecture" -- to the mainframe.
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