Sun has expanded its Sun HP Away migration program by making it
available in Europe and by adding six migration solution providers and
two ISVs. The mission of the HP Away migration program is to help
customers move from the EOL'd Alpha/Tru64 to the Solaris Operating
System (Solaris OS).
The Liberty Alliance approved its Phase 2 specifications on November
12, 2003. Sun is expanding the existing Liberty functionality of the
Sun Java Enterprise System through its Sun Java System Identity
Server (formerly Sun ONE Identity Server) to include support for
Liberty's Phase 2 specifications. The alliance is providing a best
practices guide.
Sun has cut prices and increased performance on some of its
workstations. The Sun Blade 150 workstation will feature double the
memory and disk capacity and a DVD-ROM at no additional cost. The
Sun Blade 2000 workstation will be available for $3,000 less than the
base configuration.
Sun CEO Scott McNealy spoke recently at the Sun annual investors
meeting, admitting that the company was disappointed in the previous
fiscal year, but remained confident in a better 2004. McNealy pins the
success of Sun on the growing trend to connect everything digital to a
computer network.
To help customers use their resources better, Sun is offering a
building block approach to grids with the new Grid Everywhere
initiative. The building blocks come in four categories: Access, data,
computation and visualization.
Vignette will integrate the Sun Java System Directory Server with
the Vignette V7 content management suites and support components of the
Sun Java Enterprise System such as the Sun Java System
Application Server. Vignette will also work with Sun to develop and
support a portlet library connecting Vignette V7 content management
suites to the Sun Java System Portal Server.
Dr. James Gosling, vice president, Sun Fellow and Java technology
creator, will join Sun's Developer Platforms group as chief technology
officer. His goals are to bring the advances achieved by the Sun Labs
team into the commercial space.
Results of an SPC benchmark demonstrated that the Sun StorEdge 3510
Fibre Channel (FC) system delivered 17 percent more performance, 33
percent more price-performance with 30 percent less storage than IBM
TotalStorage FAStT600 with Turbo Option.
Sun Microsystems has a six-fold business strategy for delivering
networking solutions that cut cost and complexity to its customers.
These are discussed in the company's 2003 annual report.
In its campaign against cost and complexity, Sun has introduced
servers based on SPARC and Solaris Operating Systems (Solaris
OS) technologies that undercut the price of comparable systems from the
competition. Sun customers also have wider choices from among the
systems based on Solaris OS, Linux and 32-bit x86 technologies.
Economies of even greater importance result from the possibilities the
new N1 architecture introduces, among them the ability to manage a
data center as if it were a single computer.
Gives Users Enterprise-wide, Web-based Communications System
communications system
The newly released Communications Internet Data Center (CIDC) Reference
Architecture supports the Sun Java System Messaging Server 5.2
(formerly Sun ONE Messaging Server) and the Sun ONE Directory
Server 5.1, delivering the sizing and performance characterizations
that enable reduced time-to-revenue in messaging implementations.
IT managers at Westdeutsche Landesbank AG were persuaded to choose Sun
Microsystems as the hardware vendor for its SAP implementation by the
findings of the report "Consolidated SAP Operation -- A Review of
Costs," in which Sun compared a Sun Fire 6800 server, five 4-way
servers and a distributed scenario of five small servers and 16 blades
to determine the best system for hosting that solution. The report
concluded that a consolidated Sun solution provides the highest degree
of performance, scalability and availability at the lowest cost.
The 2003 China Education & Research Conference (China ERC) will be held
in Beijing, November 20 to 21. This annual event is jointly organized
by Sun Microsystems China Limited and Ministry of Education of People's
Republic of China. The focus is on how Information Technology is being
used for Education.
The third annual ObjectWeb Conference will feature speakers from
corporate members, computer research laboratories and the Open Source
software community. The event will be held from November 20-21, in
Rocquencourt, France (located just outside Paris).
The JA-SIG Conference on December 7-9, 2003, in Bal Harbour, (Miami)
FL, will present sessions on Java technology architecture,
development and solutions specifically as they can be applied in Higher
Education. Catch speakers from Sun and many universities.
The conference on cluster technology will be held at the Sheraton Hong
Kong Hotel and Towers, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowlool, Hong Kong, from December
1 to 4, 2003. Ira Pramanick and Simon Chong-Wee See of Sun will make
presentations.
Upcoming Sun Net Talks in November and early December will cover
business continuity, best practices for migrating to the Solaris
Operating System (Solaris OS) and how a hospital in Ireland switched
from Microsoft to the Sun Java Desktop System.
The SANS CDI East 2003 Annual Conference will feature tracks on
securing UNIX systems and Windows, hacker techniques, firewalls and
more. The conference will be held December 8-13, 2003, in Washington,
DC. The Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) conference will also offer a
SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp.
Two recent downloads listed on the Sun Download Center are for entry-level servers: The Sun Fire B100x / B200x, 1.0 and the Sun Fire V60x
server and Sun Fire V65x server: Red Hat Linux 9 server management.
The site planning guide is designed to assist Sun customers who have
purchased Sun entry-level servers and who seek information about the
proper way to house the servers in a data center. It provides
information about the servers' environmental requirements, power
consumption, cooling requirements, electrical specifications and space
requirements.
Sun is making the decision to End of Life (EOL) their first compactPCI
systems; the pair is being replaced by the Netra CT 410 server and
the Netra CT 810 server. Sun is also transitioning Sun Fire
280R server Assemble to Order (ATO) Base Systems.
Act now to save with Sun's Education-only promotions, some ending
soon. Sun solutions help your campus expand its technology
capabilities while consolidating IT resources. Get special prices on
Sun Blade 1500 workstations, Sun Blade 150 workstations, thin clients, the Sun Fire V880 server and Sun StorEdge systems.
A valuable part of the Sun EduConnection Program is the EduConnection
email newsletter. Published every 4-6 weeks, it features original
articles on education trends, research and analysis, best practices and
solution case studies. The December 2003 issue will include articles on the
2003 Campus Computing Survey, e-learning, grid infrastructures and a
case study of Imperial College LOndon.
The Sun EduConnection Program is a free online forum for the education
and research community that delivers valuable information on technology
trends in education. EduConnection includes the EduConnection email
newsletter, Sun Net Talks, Expert Exchanges and special offers.
The Sun Java Enterprise System for Education is designed to be a
significantly different approach to software infrastructure, allowing
customers to synchronize IT investments with business priorities. Three
fundamental elements make up the system: A new software system, a new
systematic approach to design, development test and delivery and a new
business model.
A recent Sun white paper, "Measuring Success in E-Learning: The
Academic Perspective" uses specific examples from successful
initiatives to demonstrate that enterprise-level, Web-based e-learning
works in education. The paper also focuses on issues such as
scalability, impact on student achievement, economic and resource
impacts and success factors.
"Head First EJB"
For the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam
The new book by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates aims to help readers pass
the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD) exam for Enterprise
JavaBeans (EJB). "Head First EJB" teaches what the new
technology is, why it was created and what it is and isn't used for.
The book also offers tips and tricks for EJB development.
"Art of Java Web Development," by Neal Ford, is written as a guide to
the array of wide-ranging topics required for today's top Web
development. These include several different types of Web development
frameworks and best practices.
"Applying UML"
Advanced Applications for Real Life Situations
The book "Applying UML" looks at the practical issues that users must
face when adopting "Unified Modeling Language" UML. Rather than just
help teach the language, the text aims to help the reader apply UML to
real life situations. A thorough and detailed look at UML covers
notation on profiles and extensions. The book is written by Rob Pooley
and Pauline Wilcox.
A new book tries to cut through the superfluous graphics application
tutorials and design details to provide developers with clear and
concise design concepts, examples and projects to support developer
proficiency with design in a short period of time. "Design Concepts
with Code: An Approach for Developers" is written by Stanko Blatnik
and Kelley Carey.
A recent Web Services Development Survey conducted by Evans Data
Corporation found that the Java programming language was considered
the best language in five of six categories. The Web Services features
categories that the Java programming language received top marks for
include: Flow control; Syntax; Object/memory separation; Easy access to
libraries and Tight integration with XML.
A recent article by Qusay H. Mahmoud discusses the phenomenon of
"Slimming Wireless Java Applications." The article begins with a
discussion of some of the reasons for reducing the size of wireless
Java technology applications, discusses problems that arise from
using class libraries, then offers some techniques for shrinking
applications without sacrificing quality.
Sun Microsystems continues to mull over the possibility of membership in
Eclipse, the IBM-led open source development tools project for Java
technology, according to Paul Krill writing in InfoWorld.
The latest release of the Eclipse platform, version 2.1.2, is designed
as a maintenance release that fixes serious defects present in earlier
versions (2.1.0 and 2.1.1). The main role of the Eclipse platform is to
offer tool providers mechanisms to use and rules to follow, which lead
to seamlessly integrated tools.
Gathering information both from the press and from published
certification surveys, Certification Magazine has compiled a list of
certification programs ranked on their appeal, popularity,
enhancement of employment prospects and pay. Sun programs in the Top 10
List are highlighted in the article.
The Solstice X.25 software, which provides transparent access to
systems and resources across public and private X.25 networks, contains
a vulnerability in the SNMP daemon (snmpx25d) that can be exploited by
a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with possible root
privileges resulting.
According to Paul A. Strassmann's opinion piece in ComputerWorld, part
of the blame for the shambles involving security in IT these days lies
on CIOs themselves. He all but exculpates Microsoft's monopoly powers as
the cause of widespread security threats and says that IT managers
laissez faire attitude toward the proliferations of hardware and
software and uncontrolled networking deserve a larger share of blame.
VERITAS has extended its
protective software umbrella to offer transparent protection of
mission-critical corporate data that resides on the millions of laptops
and desktops in small-to-medium size businesses and large enterprises.
The VERITAS Desktop and Laptop Option also allows users to
automatically synchronize data among multiple machines with a single
click.
VERITAS Software Corporation has released a major new version of
VERITAS NetBackup 5.0, its leading backup and recovery software
product. Among the capabilities in this new version are faster
disk-based backup, advanced data protection techniques and both desktop
and laptop data protection.
The latest version of VERITAS NetBackup, version 5.0, brings the
advantage of complete data protection to even the most complex UNIX,
Windows, Linux and NetWare environments. The software's intuitive
graphical user interfaces help enable organizations to manage all
aspects of backup and recovery and to help maintain consistent backup
policies that are deployed across the enterprise. With this release,
users will have database- and application-aware backup and recovery
solutions for Oracle, IBM DB2 UDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft
Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, SAP R/3, Sybase,
Informix, and Lotus Notes and Domino Server.
VERITAS has released CommandCentral Service 3.5 software, a product for
measuring and reporting on IT resource consumption, service levels and
costs. The new software is integrated with VERITAS NetBackup and
VERITAS Backup Exec software, thereby providing the ability to track
backup and recovery job details and policy, error and media information
from VERITAS and third-party data protection software.
VERITAS CommandCentral Service software functions in two ways to allow
users to centrally manage delivery of storage services and quantify the
results of storage expenditures. First, it tracks IT effectiveness by
providing complete business-level reporting of storage and
backup/recovery resource utilization, costs and service level
delivery. And, second, it helps enable business customers to ensure
that their performance and availability requirements are met at the
lowest cost.
The number one deployment platform for Oracle's E-Business Suite (E-BS)
(AKA Oracle Applications 11i) is the Solaris Operating System
(Solaris OS) (SPARC Platform Edition). A version of E-BS that will
run on Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) is under development. This article lists resources to find out more about the benefits of the Oracle E-Business Suite on Sun.
For customers running Oracle Real Application Clusters with Sun
Cluster software (now rebranded as Sun Java System Cluster), Sun is
offering a promotion with savings of up to 50 percent. The promotion
reduces the license fees for Sun Cluster 3 agent licenses and SCI cards
and switches. The promotion will run until April 28, 2004.
Sun solutions have achieved a world record with Oracle Application
Server 10g running on a heterogeneous Sun configuration in the
SPECjAppServer 2002 benchmark. The multi-tier operating system and
processor architecture included a seven-node Sun Fire V65x server
cluster, each equipped with two Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, and linked to the SPARC processor-based Sun
Fire 6800 database server running the Solaris Operating System
(Solaris OS) (SPARC Platform Edition) and the Sun Fire V65x
server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with x86 chip technology.
IONA has introduced Orbix Connect, which allows Java technology
developers to achieve seamless connectivity between Java 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and CORBA. The company is also launching a
new strategic alliance with the JBoss Group.
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