Sun has begun the second phase of its Technology Preview for the
Java Studio Creator, also known by the code name "Project Rave."
The solution is designed to join the power of the Java platform
with a simplified development model to offer a streamlined and highly
productive working environment.
Sun introduced a new standalone level of service
called Time to Repair (TTR), which is now available in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa, as well as the United States. TTR commits to repair a
customer's hardware failure within a fixed amount of time and, failing
to do so, Sun will pay the customer a penalty.
Sun has licensed the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Specification and Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) to ObjectWeb with new
open source license terms. This will bring the benefits of Java
technology compatibility to the organization's open source community
for development and deployment through ObjectWeb's JOnAS Application
Server.
Peter Ulander, director of marketing for desktop solutions at Sun
Microsystems, shed some light on three Linux projects in a recent
interview written by Jacqueline Emigh for LinuxPlanet. These are
Project Looking Glass, the Java Desktop Environment and Linux
thin-client software for the Sun Ray appliance.
The Sun Managed Services portfolio has been enhanced and expanded to
include Sun Managed Security Services, along with enhancements to Site
Support. Sun's customized IT Infrastructure Management solution employs
a unique, flexible sourcing approach and industry best practices that
cover the entire service delivery life cycle. Sun has joined forces
with VeriSign Inc. to deliver Sun Managed Security Services to the
market.
The Sun Enterprise Messaging Reference Architecture provides the email,
calendar and instant messaging infrastructures necessary to meet
enterprise communications needs. It is designed to be secure, reliable
and horizontally scalable.
There is an interview on sun.com with Phil Yelland of Sun Labs and
Eunice Lee of the Worldwide Operations Business Unit (WWOPS). The two
provide details on how Sun Labs helped WWOPS replace its earlier
"judgmental" or manual sales forecast with less labor intensive
sophisticated Bayesian statistical methods that produce results at
least as reliable as the earlier effort.
Sun is offering the developer release of Sun Java System Application Server
Platform Edition 8 free for development and production deployment. This
is the first compatible implementation of the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 specification with extensive support
for Web services, including WS-I Basic Profile.
Sun Java System Portal Server 6.2 comes with Identity Server 6.1,
desktop enhancements, discussion threads capabilities, category
subscription, Portlet Builder 2.0, multiplatform support and more. This
product replaces the Sun Java System Portal Server, version 3.0, with
last order date of May 14, 2004, and last ship date of August 13,
2004.
How well does the Sun Java Desktop System 2003 compare to Windows?
DevX.com writer Laurence Moroney conducted his own research and
describes the experience from installation to operation to software
and applications. Overall, he concludes that Sun "has helped put Linux
in position to challenge Microsoft."
A Sun Net Talk will be held on February 25 (not February 24, as
originally scheduled) that discusses new, rapidly emerging data
protection laws and related penalties for non-compliance.
The 2004 Forrester Technology Leadership Forum aims to bring together
IT executives, vendors and Forrester analysts to condense a range of
open source issues into an understandable format. Executives should be
able to use the information to create their own open source strategy.
The event will be held March 21-23 in Coronado, CA.
Join the Jini Community meeting in Cambridge, MA, from March 23-25,
2004. You'll find in-depth presentations, technical discussions,
debates and collaborations with highly knowledgeable members of the
Jini technology community, at no cost to the attendee.
TeamQuest Corporation, a company that specializes in IT performance
and capacity planning, is sponsoring a free Webinar titled "Aligning
IT with Business Priorities -- TeamQuest's Perspective." The Webinar
will explore the benefits and challenges involved when working to
focus the use of information technology in accordance with overall
business priorities.
The Sun Blade 150 workstation now features the Sun XVR-600
graphics accelerator as its 3-D graphics solution. Offered as both an
X-option and ATO option, the Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerator is made for cost-conscious
consumers desiring 3-D graphics for MCAD and MCAE applications. This is a
product replacement for the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator.
Sun offers customers the opportunity to build their own configurations
with the Sun 1500 workstation's ATO program. The assemble-to-order
program allows for customized system configuration that is
quality-tested by Sun without a premium charge. Turn in Sun or non-Sun
systems for a trade-in value toward purchase.
Minor changes to the Sun XVR-100 graphics accelerator board have
been made without any performance or functionality differences
expected. However, the new board will have a new part number. The board is compatible with
the previous version and supported on "servers only" at this time.
Sun's introduction of the Sun Blade 1500 and 2500 systems with the
new Sun XVR-600 graphics accelerator has placed their predecessors
(which had the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator) at the end of
their product line.
Two recent Sun BluePrints documents focus on the Sun Fire 12K
servers and Sun Fire 15K servers, one on securing system
controllers, and another on securing domains for these servers.
Two new data center servers will be available from Sun in March. The
Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire E6900 servers are midrange,
enterprise-class servers based on the new UltraSPARC IV processors
with Chip Multithreading (CMT) technology. The servers are designed to
provide customers with up to twice the compute throughput of current
UltraSPARC III processors-based systems.
The Sun Fire E2900 server is the first entry-priced, midrange
server based on the new UltraSPARC IV processors with Chip
Multithreading (CMT) technology. This offering provides up to twice
the compute capability of preceding systems in the same footprint and a
lower TCO.
The Sun Fire B1600 Blade Platform is designed to be more efficient
and economical than traditional servers. It features dual slot, 3U
self-enclosed blade server and two 2.0 GHz Low Voltage Intel Xeon
processors.
The Sun Fire V20z is the first in a line of Sun servers based on the
AMD Opteron processor. This dual processor 1U rack-mount server offers
64-bit high-performance computing with x86 32-bit compatibility. It's
competitively priced to other 32-bit x86 servers. The AMD Opteron
processor allows customers to seamlessly migrate to the future of
64-bit processing.
In a recent interview about Sun's x86 strategy, Sun's Volume Systems
product line director for x86 and workstations, Rajesh Shakkarwar,
explained what markets Sun would like to attract, the future of the
UltraSPARC processor and how Sun perceives HP launching an
Opteron-based server.
Sun is running a promotion through September 30, 2004, on the Sun
StorEdge 6000 family storage system, which it offers at a 30
percent discount when ordered with any 12-way or larger server from
among either the Netra 1280 server or any one of the following Sun
Fire servers: the E2900, E4900, E6900, E7900, E20K, E25K, V12809,
4800, 6800 12K or 15K.
Sun StorEdge Availability Suite, version 3.2 L10N software includes
documentation translated into Japanese, Korean, French, Traditional and
Simplified Chinese. The English-only version of the software will be
ended (EOL) and will
the following: Sun StorEdge Availability Suite v3.1 media and 1 TB
license for Sun StorEdge 6320, 6120, and 6020 systems and arrays.
A total of 56 additional configurations are being announced for the Sun
StorEdge 3310 SCSI array and the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC array.
Twelve other hard disk drive options for the Sun StorEdge 3000 family
are being significantly repriced.
The LTO1 FC Drive for the Sun StorEdge L180, L700, L5500 and
Specific High-end Sun StorEdge Tape Solutions, plus a number of
components associated with this drive, have been designated for End of Life
by Sun. The last order date is May 14, 2004; the last ship date is
August 13, 2004. Support for these components will continue for up to
five years, however.
Sun is releasing Sun Studio 8, a comprehensive, integrated
development environment designed to help developers quickly and
efficiently construct high-performance, scalable, open, high-quality
applications. The solution is replacing Sun ONE Studio 8, Compiler
Collection and Sun ONE Studio 7, Enterprise Edition for the
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
The developer's guide discusses how to determine whether an application
is 32-bit or 64-bit, the similarities and differences between the
32-bit and 64-bit application environments and explains how to write
code that is portable between the two environments.
Many Sun products made the list of Developer.com awards, including Sun
Java Studio (formerly Sun ONE Studio) as Development Tool of
the Year and the J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1 for Wireless Development
Product of the Year.
There is a Sun Cluster 3.1 download for developers. Sun Cluster has
been re-branded as Sun Java System Cluster software. Version 3.1
provides improved availability, scalability and manageability of
application service deployments.
Sun Ray server software and the Trusted Solaris operating
system have been supporting the coalition forces on the battlefield.
The Joint Intelligence Center of the Pacific (JICPAC) tested
thin-client devices to determine the feasibility of using this
technology to relay information to soldiers in the field. The test
pilot was a success.
Phil Becker seems a bit nostalgic in his article "4.3 Million Smart
Cards, Global Reach -- and it Works!" that appears in the
November/December issue of Digital ID World. He recalls his work on the
major projects of old -- the Titan missile systems, the Apollo Moon
Landing -- where technology itself was driven and shaped by the scale
of the projects. In the current Department of Defense Common Access
Card (CAC) system, Becker once again finds a project with the momentum
to shape the very technology it is based on.
The General Services Administration (GSA) and The Center of Open Source
& Government are co-sponsoring the "Unlocking Innovation for the Business
of Government," conference scheduled March 15-17, 2004, at George
Washington University in Washington, DC. The conference will focus on
open source solutions and e-Government. Advanced registration $295, at
the door $395.
The OASIS e-Government Technical Committee provides a forum for
governments internationally to voice their needs and requirements with
respect to XML-based standards and provides a mechanism for the
creation of best practice documents and promotes the adoption of OASIS
specs/standards within governments.
Troika Networks has certified Emulex LightPulse 2 Gb/s Fibre channel
host bus adapters (HBAs) for use within their products. Included in the
certification are Emulex's LP9802 HBAs running on Solaris 7, 8 and 9 Operating System (Solaris OS);
Windows 2000; and Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3 and 9.0 with Troika's K1600
and K800 Application Switches.
The first implementation of JavaSpaces specification is now
available. AutoevoSpaces SSI by IntaMission is the first commercially
available product to provide semantic consistency with Sun's JavaSpaces
ensuring the correctness and flexibility of large distributed
mission-critical applications.
Virgin Megastores has selected WARP SpiderCache software to improve
performance and scalability of its Web site and e-commerce operations
in the UK. WARP SpiderCache was selected because of its performance
specifications benefits and reduced hardware requirement. This software
accommodates traffic spikes without compromising speed and response
times, which is important for one of the Internet's top-rated Web
sites. WARP SpiderCache includes Web server plug-ins for Apache servers
on Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) or Linux.
Cerberian Web Manager received OPSEC certification from Check Point
Software Technologies Ltd. Organizations using Check Point Internet
security solutions can monitor and enforce Internet access policies and
enable administrators to install and manage Internet use. Through
OPSEC certification, Cerberian Web Manager for Check Point VPN-1
integrates with Check Point's VPN-1 Pro and Express Next Generation
with Application Intelligence software. Cerberian Web Manager for
Check Point VPN-1 on the Next Generation platform is available for
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux and Windows 2000.
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