Sun's Network Storage division has grown in each product area, from
entry-level to high-end storage products. Sun's Network Storage
division has increased share sequentially in vendor revenue for total
market and UNIX disk storage systems for the third consecutive
quarter, according to IDC's Q2-2003 Worldwide Disk Storage Systems
Quarterly Tracker.
Sun chairman, president and CEO Scott McNealy chose OracleWorld as the
venue for his announcement that Sun and Oracle have jointly committed to a
strategy designed to reduce cost and complexity in the
data center.
The Retail Banking Reference Architecture, developed by Sun
in collaboration with Infosys, makes it easier for banks
to respond to customer demand for 24 x 7 Web-enabled banking, Straight
Through Processing (STP) and a unified channel access to manage their
personal financial information. The latest bank to adopt the solution
is the National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB Banking Group).
Sun and NCR are working together to deliver complete solutions and
services offerings for retail, financial and telecommunications
customers all over the globe. NCR will develop joint solutions for
targeted vertical markets through its work with Sun. NCR will also sell
and deliver installation and support services for Sun's complete line
of entry- to mid-range servers and storage systems.
Sun is making a qualification release of the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 source code available for
licensees of the J2EE platform. The source code includes support for
the final WS-I Basic Profile as well as the J2EE platform programming
model for portable Web Services applications.
Sun has joined a group of other companies in a new industry initiative
being started by the Gilbane Report, The Gilbane Content Technology
Works Program, to create a collection of best practices for the content
technology marketplace. Founding partners include Software AG, Artesia
Technologies, Atomz, Context Media, Convera, Vignette and WebWare.
Bill Joy, co-founder of and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, is
leaving the company. He will be succeeded by Greg Papadopoulos,
currently the chief technology and executive VP.
The Sun Fire V65x server and Xiran's DPA1200-H streaming media
accelerator card are able to substantially improve Helix streaming media
performance. The solution also offers improvements to cost efficiency,
scalability and performance for Internet and content delivery service
providers, as well as corporate enterprises. Xiran is an accelerated
content delivery solution provider.
As a result of a partnership with Topspin Communications, a systems
company that provides the foundation for switched computing, Sun has
recently debuted a high-performance data center solution for
InfiniBand-based technology. The Oracle Database clustering solution is
configured to run the Red Hat Linux operating system and Oracle
Database 10g on a Sun Fire V65x server cluster.
MasterCard International has picked the Sun Fire servers with
Java technology and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
to run its MasterCard SecureCode hosted service. The iForce partner
Arcot is providing e-payments authentication software, Transfort, which
will facilitate implementation of MasterCard SecureCode onto the
servers.
Sun has enhanced the attractiveness and usefulness of its Project Mad
Hatter by signing an agreement with RealNetworks Inc. that allows Sun
to redistribute RealPlayer. RealPlayer supports a variety of file
formats, along with RealAudio and RealVideo, which will give users
access to the widest possible variety of desktop offerings. Project Mad
Hatter will formally be launched at SunNetwork 2003 in San
Francisco.
This Inaugural Event of the Auto-ID Center will be held September
15-17, 2003, at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. Tracks will cover buying,
implementing and maintaining the EPC Network and how adoption of EPC
technology can make companies more profitable.
A new series of one-day events is aimed at drawing developers,
technical leaders and business and government end-users to 11 cities
across Europe, beginning September 15 and ending October 30. LogOn Web Days Europe 2003 is a series of pan-European
events that will focus Web Services, Java technology and XML. The
Java Community Process (JCP) program is an Association Partner
of the event.
The Smart Card Alliance Fall 2003 Conference, titled "Smart Cards in
Motion," will be held October 14-16, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The
event will focus on mobility and how a range of vertical markets are
taking advantage of new chip technologies that offer greater speed,
lower cost, larger capacity and a more mobile form.
The OSGi Alliance's annual event, the OSGi World Congress, is an open
forum designed to specify, create, advance and promote an open service
platform for the delivery and management of multiple applications and
services to all types of networked devices. The event will be held
October 21-24 (including pre-conference workshop), in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Scientific Computing & Instrumentation Magazine is offering a free
Webcast on the use of Grid Technology. Titled "Utilizing Grid
Technology to Optimize the Power and Potential of All Your Technical
Computing Resources," the Webcast will feature Wolfgang Gentzsch,
director of Grid Computing at Sun. The event will take place on
September 24, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern.
The Enterprise Architect Summit aims to be the first and only event
that examines how IT professionals are expected to integrate overall IT
needs with the demands of business in order to develop usable
architectural solutions. The event will be held October 12-14, in Palm
Springs, California.
A number of new code camps have been announced that will be of interest
to the developer community. They include offerings on network security,
over-the-air provisioning, Web application frameworks and the Java
2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME).
Sun Educational Services is making a new Tech Talk series on Sun
ONE Studio 5, Standard Edition software (formerly Forte for Java) and integrations available to
customers as a Web-based course. Also new is a further enhancement of
Sun ONE Studio software that comes from InsiTech, whose XML Tunneling
Technology (XTT) enables the development of thin-client rich GUI
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3 (J2EE)
applications in shorter time and in a manner similar to developing Java
programming applications in Visual Basic.
In today's IT environment where machines are constantly probed for
vulnerabilities, users and administrators are in need of a solid
security scanner to audit their own machines. In a Sun BigAdmin article
Amy Rich takes a look at Nessus, which she feels is one of the strongest
GPL tools currently available.
An article detailing how to build a system that uses the Solaris
Operating System (Solaris OS) for under US$500 has been posted on the
Sun BigAdmin Web site. Eric Rinker describes the hardware acquisition,
configuration and installation process involved with putting this
inexpensive system together from scratch.
The Sun Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) System
Analysis program, an Internet-based service, uses a combination of
technology and expert knowledge to deliver automated, on-demand server
configuration assessments, giving users timely information on the
health of their systems.
William C. Wake's "Refactoring Workbook" is geared toward helping
programmers master the difficult skill of refining problematic code.
Basic to the operation of refactoring is the ability to keep programs
in a working state throughout the software cycle even as they are being
improved.
Manning has released two new titles, both written to make the
programming task less burdensome. The first is "XDoclet in Action" by
Craig Walls and Norman Richards. The second, "JUnit in Action" by
Vincent Massol with Ted Husted.
"Enterprise Java for SAP" is Austin Sincock's new book from Apress.
Sincock presents an introduction to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) for the SAP developer that shows the reader how to
open the typically closed SAP environment to the world of Java
technology.
A lot of developers, service providers and aggregators of third-party
applications have been disappointed with the results (or lack thereof)
of using the old, common sense revenue model that goes something like,
"developers develop, service providers value-add and market and
everybody makes money." Fortunately, there are alternatives, which this
article examines.
Daniel H. Steinberg begins his article on the FIT framework with the
observation that too little discourse takes place between teachers of
and practitioners of object-oriented language. Using FIT and FitNesse,
a wiki-based wrapper for FIT that adds functionality, a teacher can now
specify an assignment that a student, faculty member or grader can run
against the student's efforts throughout the development phase. The
spec itself, in other words, can help the student make progress by
showing what needs to be done next and which parts have been satisfied
at any moment.
Sun now offers Oracle Database 10g customers multiple UNIX-based
platforms -- the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and
UltraSPARC processor; Linux-based systems; and, for the first time,
Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) based systems -- to help businesses reduce cost and lay the
foundation for the data center of the future.
University Hospitals Health System (UHHS) is northern Ohio's premier
healthcare delivery system, employing 12,000 staff members in its 22
business entities located in more than 150 sites across the northern
region of the state. When the growing scale of its business operations
dictated a consolidation, UHHS chose 16 modules of the Oracle
E-Business Suite 11i as the vehicle to replace its variety of
antiquated legacy software and Sun hardware and software to run it on.
JavaWorld magazine and Java Pro magazine have both bestowed awards on
Oracle for its Oracle9i Application Server TopLink software and its
leadership in Java technology software development.
LinkScan 11.2 from Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop) is a
tool that checks for broken links on Web sites and performs HTML
validation. Enhancements to version 11.2 include timeout-retry
algorithms, additional status codes, more detailed information
concerning DNS lookup, timeout, connect and other networking errors as
well as improvements to the reporting of multiple redirection
problems.
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