A new software development agreement between Sun and Siebel Systems
will enhance the performance of Siebel eBusiness Applications running
on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and selected Sun
Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) software products such as the Sun
ONE Identity Server 6.0 software (formerly iPlanet Directory
Server: Access Management Edition).
A nine-quarter decline in year-on-year growth finally halted in the
second quarter of 2003, according to market intelligence and advisory
firm IDC. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker showed a 0.2 percent
increase in quarterly server factory revenues from the second quarter
one year ago.
Sun and Danger Inc., a wireless solution provider, have inked an
agreement by which Danger will become a licensee of Java 2
Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME). In connection with the agreement,
Danger has plans for imminent product launches that are compliant with
the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Mobile
Information Device Profile (MIDP) specifications.
According to IDC's Q2CY03 (quarter two, calendar year 2003) Technical
Server report, Sun was the only vendor in the high performance and
technical computing (HPTC) market to outgrow the overall HPTC market in
year-over-year unit shipments. Sun was able to grow shipments by 43
percent, as opposed to the overall market's 30 percent growth.
Sun has completed its acquisition of CenterRun Inc., which is a
privately-held company that provides software that allows customers to
quickly provision, track and update their networked applications
services. Sun will use the newly-acquired technology in its Sun N1 product and services roadmap.
Emlyn Pagden's Sun BluePrints OnLine article, "The IT Utility Model,
Part I," defines both utility computing (a method for consuming the
resources of a computer based on its utilization rather than its ownership)
and utility pricing (a method of billing customers for computer
resources they have consumed).
Dell has left the 8-way server market segment, arguing that
horizontally scaled 2- and 4-way servers will meet the needs of that
market just as well. Souheil Saliba, Vice President of Volume Server
Product Marketing at Sun questions that assertion and presents Sun's
case to the enterprise server customer.
Sun, through its recently created Game Technologies Group, is
committing its expertise in building back-end systems that support
online game play and in creating interoperable Java technology
systems to enlarge the portable gaming experience.
The guide covers all functions of StarOffice software. Chapter 4,
"Creating Spreadsheets with StarOffice Calc", covers topics such as
structure of a spreadsheet, cells, handling multiple sheets, database
functions and exporting spreadsheets.
Sun Support Services has announced the availability of a new Sun
Cluster Software Installation Validation Service which allows
experienced customers to self-perform Sun Cluster software
installations and then have Sun Support Services validate the
installation against the Enterprise Installation Services standards.
Validated installations are eligible for a support contract. This
service is recommended for non-mission critical deployments.
Sun is transitioning the Solaris 9 4/03 System Administrator media
kits and several Solaris 7 and 8 OS part numbers. Solaris 9 4/03 Slim
kits (Media only) will continue to be available.
CeBIT Asia, the huge information and communication technology (ICT)
trade fair, will take place in Shanghai, China, from September 18-21.
The event will be widened this year to include numerous international
organizations and institutions which will present their solutions and
theme-oriented shows. The event is designed to allow attendees to get
in the door in this competitive market.
NFS vendors, customers, end users, ISVs and industry experts are all
expected to come together at the NFS Industry Conference for an
in-depth discussion from a marketing, managerial and technical
perspective. The conference will be held September 22-24, in Santa
Clara, California. Rob Gingell, Sun Fellow and chief
engineer, will make a keynote.
The European Schoolnet's annual Expert Meeting of International and
National Educational Networks (EMINENT) will be held October 9-10,
2003, in Geneva, Switzerland. The event will be hosted by the Swiss
Agency for ICT in Education (SFIB/CTIE) and will focus on the theme of
"Empowering the Actors of Tomorrow's School."
New configurations are available for Sun Fire V60x servers. One
configuration includes a 2x2.8 GHz CPUs, 2 GB RAM and 2x36 GB 10K RPM
disk drives. A second configuration offers a 2x3.06 GHz CUs w/512K
cache, 2 GB RAM and 2x36 GB 10k RPM drives. Other existing Sun Fire
V60x server configurations have not been changed.
The Netra CT 400/410 servers and Netra CT 800/810 servers now
benefit from a simplified ordering procedure. Additionally, lead times
for the Sun Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance have changed from four
days to eight days, as Sun plans to End of Life (EOL) the server
appliance.
The Sun Fire Blade Platform Switch and System Controller (SSC) is
currently available as an X-option. This announcement coincides with
the recent release of the new SC firmware version 1.2, which allows for
the possibility of failover between the two System Controllers in a
chassis.
The standard configuration of the Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform
with eight Sun Fire B100s blade servers (which are being repriced)
is being End of Life'd (EOL'd). The entry blade configuration with
512 MB of memory will also EOL. The last order date for the platform is
November 21, 2003, with the last ship date set for February 20, 2004.
The new Sun StorEdge LTO Gen 2 Desktop SCSI Tape Drive, featuring
200 GB native capacity and 30 MB/sec. throughput, is now available for
customers in the market for workstations and/or workgroup servers, as
well as those requiring local, non-automated backup and restore
solutions. The drive's 30 MB/sec. throughput enables users to backup
200 GB in less than two hours.
Users of the Sun StorEdge 9980 system and of DB Discovery for
Oracle to map an Oracle9iR2 database will welcome the Sun StorEdge
9900 Series 48 ESCON Channel Card Feature, which extends the reach of
the system from 32 ports to 48.
In order to make the Sun StorEdge 6120 array more readily available
to users, Sun has simplified the sales and ordering process for the
single controller configuration. New x-option part numbers include both
controller trays and expansion trays with seven or fourteen 36GB-15K,
73GB-10K and 146GB-10K drives per tray. A maximum of two expansion
trays can be attached to one Sun StorEdge 6120 controller tray.
Given that many users of the Sun StorEdge A5200 array have already
upgraded to newer Fibre Channel products such as the Sun StorEdge
6120 array or the Sun StorEdge 3510 array, Sun has determined to
transition the Sun StorEdge A5200 array from its price list. The last order date for the Sun StorEdge A5200 array is November 21, 2003; the
last ship date, February 20, 2004.
Get a quick overview of the past month's news such as a glimpse at Sun's
Project Mad Hatter, what's coming up at the SunNetwork Conference 2003,
reduced prices on Sun servers, new features in the Solaris 9 Operating
System (Solaris OS) version 8/03, best practices for servers and a look at Sun's successes in the Financial Services sector and Life Sciences market.
Vaughn Spurlin has written a guide to developing Nokia wireless Web
Services using Sun ONE Studio 5, Standard Edition and the Nokia
Developer's Suite. Spurlin includes details on developing, deploying
and debugging the Web service with the Nokia emulator and a Web
server.
Neelakanth Nadgir and Amjad Khan recommend the use of Sun ONE
Studio 8, Compiler Collection software for applications developed for
either the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) (SPARC Platform
Edition) or the Solaris OS (x86 Platform
Edition). In a related article, Khan writes about enhancing support in the
Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) for existing applications available
on the Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition).
Amjad Khan undertook this case study to cover the various aspects of
building and installing the Apache Web Server source on both the
Solaris 9 Operating System (Solaris OS) (SPARC Platform Edition)
and the Solaris 9 OS (x86 Platform Edition). It compares the build on
both platforms and offers an analysis of issues that came up during
the compilation of source code.
Two new titles from IT-minds.com aim to comprehensively cover Oracle 8i
and Java technology, and firewalls and Internet security. Both are
written for the IT user by experts, with one book providing coverage
from e-commerce to the client server, and the other focusing on
repelling hackers.
Written by the following select members of the W3C XML Query Language
working group -- Howard Katz, Don Chamberlin, Denise Draper, Mary
Fernandez, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys, Jerome Simeon, Jim
Tivy and Philip Wadler -- "XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C
XML Query Language" is written in language and format (both tutorial
and reference) that the novice and the expert programmer can understand
and profit from.
Authors Andrea Steelman and Joel Murach aim to provide readers with all
the information needed to learn how to develop Java technology
servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Designed to consolidate
the information typically found in several different books, "Murach's
Java Servlets and JSP" teaches all the skills needed to develop Java
Web applications.
"Fast Web Services"
Efficient Binary Encodings as an Alternative to Textual XML Representations
A recent Sun article examines Fast Web Services, an initiative by Sun
for the identification of performance problems in existing
implementations of Web Services standards. The article examines one
individual solution that offers maximum performance gains. Fast Web
Services explores the use of more efficient binary encodings as an
alternative to textual XML representations.
Sun's executive vice president, Software, Jonathan Schwartz, recently
wrote a few words for the Sun Web site describing the "Value of
Java." The article discusses the impact Java technology has made
throughout the tech industry and how valuable it has become in today's
society.
For programmers and developers who are responsible for designing,
developing, testing, deploying and integrating Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJB) applications, Sun offers the Sun Certified Business Component
Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3 exam.
Those interested in the exam will be able to take a Web-based practice
exam in October.
A recent article on Sun's Java technology Web site presents a fast
track tutorial on Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
1.4. Author Qusay H. Mahmoud examines how to use JAAS for authentication
and authorization and provides numerous code examples throughout.
MonoSphere's automated storage resource management products provide
businesses improved data protection, data movement, reporting and
notification. The latest version of MonoSphere's Storage Manager (MSM)
product suite offers key new features while expanding operating system
support across heterogeneous storage environments.
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