This week's issue reports on Sun software successes: The Haryana State of
India will adopt StarOffice 7 software in its government offices
[12496]. The online travel site Orbitz uses Jini technology in its
Service-Oriented Architecture [12425]. In case you missed last week's
issue, see article [12352] to read how the Athens International Airport
is preparing for the Olympics with the Sun Java Enterprise System.
Want to know how the Sun Java Desktop System differs from Microsoft
Windows? See [12510].
The Telco section outlines the benefits of the JAIN SLEE [12397] and
provides a link to mobile guidelines from the Liberty Alliance Project
[12416].
In the Servers section, get a brief overview of Sun's recently announced
midrange servers, with links to more details [12512].
Sun has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the government
of Haryana State in India that will lead to the adoption of
StarOffice 7 Office Suite in all state departments. The agreement
marks the first occasion when an open-source based office productivity
software has been openly endorsed by a state government.
For a limited time, Sun is offering the Sun Java Enterprise System
in a promotional program for companies with fewer than 100 employees.
Companies sign up for a free, one-year runtime license for Sun Java
Enterprise System (see article for criteria list of terms and conditions).
Communique 3.5, a content-centric, Java technology-based global content
management framework from Day Software, is designed to turn the content
infrastructure of an entire organization into a virtual repository.
The solution brings together content from any application, regardless
of its location, language or platform, and delivers it securely over
multiple channels to any device, any time, anywhere through the Sun
Java System Portal Server and Sun Java System Application Server.
The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office
(PMO) and Executive Committees (EC) have released JCP 2.6, a set of
process enhancements that give a broader group of developers earlier
access to draft specifications while adding more value at each level of
participation.
Vignette now has three solutions available, all of which natively
support Linux: Vignette Content Management, Vignette Business
Integration Studio and Vignette Application Portal.
The new Sun Excellence Center for SAP NetWeaver in Waldorf, Germany, has
been established to help customers maximize business value from their
SAP applications running on Sun systems. Customers learn how to combine
heterogeneous applications, databases and platforms into a single
system.
FileNet Business Process Manager (BPM) suite, running on the
Solaris 9 Operating System (Solaris OS) on Sun Fire 6800 and Sun
Fire V480 servers in combination with Sun StorEdge 3310 arrays,
achieved a record performance load of 6.3 million transactions/hour,
more than double previous results.
Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim has rejoined the company as senior VP
and chief architect for Volume Systems Products. He identified one of
his chief goals as accelerating
Sun's expansion into the Linux market through its partnership with
AMD.
Through its partnership with i2 Technologies, Sun has developed a
solution it calls the Spare Parts Planner Reference Architecture, which
helps minimize parts investment and optimize the use of people,
facilities and equipment.
The Daytona data management system from AT&T is used to solve a wide
array of data management problems. It offers all the essentials of data
management and can be used on small platforms with 64 MB of memory to
large platforms such as a 24x7 production call detail data datastore
with 64 CPUs, 64 GB of memory and 79 terabytes of disk.
A Sun course explains how to install, configure and perform several
different administration tasks for the Sun Java System Directory
Server 5.2. The course topics include installation, configuration,
basic administration, roles, access control, backup and restore,
migration and replication. (Sun Java technology products were
formerly known as Sun ONE products).
Sun is discontinuing its Sun Java System Instant Messaging 6.0 product to make room for its replacement: Sun Java System Instant Messaging 6.1. The EOL'd product can still be ordered until May 28, 2004. Service will remain available until August 27, 2009. (Sun Java
products were formerly known as Sun ONE products.)
The Sun Java Enterprise System software services allow customers to
take advantage of Sun Java Enterprise System by reducing the complexity
of their software environments and lowering costs. The services are
offered at varying levels to provide assistance with technical support,
software maintenance, training, installation and consulting.
The new Sun Java System Integration Server, B2B Edition 3.6.3
offers integrated support for AS2 communication protocol and integrated
support for Webmail, using the Sun Java Messaging Server for
improved scalability.
Learn the differences between the Sun Java Desktop System and
Microsoft Windows with the Web-based course "Getting Started With the
Sun Java Desktop". This course (ID: WOD-1000-90) is a tutorial that
enables students to efficiently use the Sun Java Desktop and its
components.
Keynote speaker Chris Hjelm, CTO of Orbitz, opened the EDGE 2004
Conference and Expo with an account of how his company benefits from the
shift to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). It's SOA, Hjelm said,
that enables Orbitz to make the most of its competitive advantage,
which is speed to market.
Join Jackie Bao, product line manager of the Solaris Express program at
Sun, for a BigAdmin XPerts Session to ask about the Sun Software Express for Solaris Program. The Sun Software Express for Solaris Program will
provide regularly scheduled release of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
The new Sun Dual Gigabit Ethernet + Dual SCSI PCI Adapter is
designed to maximize the performance of Sun servers, workstations and
storage devices. This product, which replaces the existing Sun Dual
Fast Ethernet + Dual SCSI Adapter, assists system administrators
connect Sun servers to LAN environments and storage devices.
The Sun Quad Fast Ethernet Card (QFE) PCI Adapter is being replaced
by the Sun Quad GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter and the Sun Dual
Gigabit Ethernet + Dual SCSI PCI Adapter. Orders will be taken through
August 24, 2004. Last ship date is November 24, 2004, and last service
date is November 24, 2009.
Writers Vernon Turner and Dr. Christopher G. Willard commend Sun's
foresight and initiative in providing an industry remedy to a plague
debilitating server design. In their white paper, "Sun's Throughput
Computing Strategy to Create a Quantum Change in Server Performance,"
Turner and Willard examine the impact Sun's introduction of chip
multithreading (CMT) processors will have on the future.
Sun is replacing the 36 GB 10K rpm Fibre Channel (FC) hard disk drive
supported on the Sun Blade 2000 workstation, Sun Fire 280R
server, Sun Fire V440 server and Sun Fire V880 server. The
replacement product for this drive is the 73 GB 10K rpm FC drive.
Optimize networking performance with the recently released Sun Quad
GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter. As a full length PCI card with four
10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet ports, this adapter connects
server-to-server and server-to-switch at gigabit and 10/100 Mbps
speeds in Cat 5 or Cat 6 UTP applications. It complies with the IEEE
802.3ab, 1000BASE-T standard.
The upcoming 25th Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC25)
will focus on solutions that address the language and multilingual
requirements of governments and industries around the world. Sun
globalization engineers will present one paper on internationalization
and two papers on Java technology.
Sun is a sponsor for this year's Storage Networking World, which offers
IT managers, storage architects and infrastructure professionals an
SNIA-endorsed education as well as access to many of their peers. The
event will also host a SNIA-sanctioned Interoperability and Solutions
Demo, and will be held April 5-8, in Phoenix, AZ.
Consistent with Sun's policy of improving the availability of customer
solutions, the Sun Fire E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K servers
can now be purchased with the remote support and diagnostic products
Sun Remote Services (SRS) Net Connect 3.1 and CPU Diagnostic
Monitor (CDM) 1.1 factory loaded.
Rack systems exposed to rigorous handling or unstable environmental
conditions can rely on the Sun Rack 900-36N. Tested and certified
to comply with standards of NEBS, GR-63-CORE Level 3, Zone 4,
earthquake requirements, this rack is ideal for data centers requiring
earthquake readiness or continual handling.
Sun introduced three new midrange servers at the Sun NC04Q1 launch:
The Sun Fire E2900 server, the Sun Fire E4900 server and the
Sun Fire E6900 server. They are all based on the new UltraSPARC
IV processors with Chip Multithreading (CMT) technology.
Sun Management Center 3.5 software is an Enterprise Systems
Products (ESP) Platform module that provides ease-of-use features in
Sun Management Center 3.5 software on Sun Fire Midrange Systems.
This release supports the new Sun Fire Midrange 5.16 firmware and the
new models in the Sun Fire Midrange server line: Sun Fire E6900 and
Sun Fire E4900 server. In addition, the release adds support for PCI+ I/O boards and
UltraSPARC IV CPU boards.
Sun StorEdge QFS Implementation Service provides customers who need to utilize disk space more efficiently with an integrated solution of proven best practices to enable efficient sharing of data
among multiple independent servers.
VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 and VERITAS File System 4.0 are now in
general release. Both will continue to use the 9-tier licensing
structure that was introduced with version 3.5 in September 2002.
Sun's release of the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software version
3.1 L10N comes with multiple language options for product documentation
and software GUI. With full localization, this release offers English,
French, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese for both documentation
and software GUI. Additionally, Traditional Chinese is also accessible
for documentation.
The Mozilla Foundation is offering an Internet suite release and two
preview releases of its Web browser and email application: Mozilla
Firefox 0.8, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 and Mozilla 1.6, respectively. All
Mozilla applications can be downloaded for free from the Mozilla foundation's Web site.
Linux may soon be supporting Flash MX and other development tools from
Macromedia. The software company announced at this year's FlashForward
conference in California that it will begin experimenting with Linux
support and release compatible versions of its development tools, such as Flash MX.
The benefits of building a portal as a frame with the HTML frame tag
include support for the full features of a frame within a channel.
The tech tip from Rama Talasila and Marina Sum provides steps and code
for this.
The first part of a recent Sun article on databases and the Mobile
Information Device Profile (MIDP) deals with understanding the Record
Management System (RMS). The article, by Eric Giguere, is the first in a
series that aims to focus on the Record Management System.
Identify porting issues for moving source files from Tru64 or HP-UX to
the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and find potential
problems with the tool for Tru_to_Solaris Migration Tool for C/C++ Source Code.
Learn how to use the Sun Java Portal Server's search engine to find
product documentation with keyword searches. An article on the
Developer's Web site outlines how to configure the portal server to
index and build a search database for portal server product
documentation hosted on docs.sun.com.
Recognizing that simple text editors are no longer even barely adequate
was part of Harshad Oak's motivation for writing "Oracle JDeveloper
10g: Empowering J2EE Development." Oak thoroughly explains Oracle
JDeveloper 10g, an IDE developers can use to develop Java
technology applications with minimal effort.
In "Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG," author Dameon Welch-Abernathy
focuses on how to build, implement and maintain the popular firewall
product. A second title, "Check Point Next Generation with Application
Intelligence Security Administration," looks at the basic concepts of
security and how to configure a basic firewall.
Network professionals use Ethereal for troubleshooting, analysis and
software and protocol development. The new book, "Ethereal Packet
Sniffing," focuses on the security tool known as a packet sniffer that
is becoming increasingly popular among network administrators. The book
is designed to allow users to get the most out of their use of
Ethereal.
"JavaServer Faces in Action," by Kito D. Mann, is designed to help
front-end developers, back-end developers and architects realize the
full potential of JavaServer Faces technology. This technology is a
framework that allows users to build Web-based user interfaces in
Java technology.
At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Sun and Open Cloud
announced the Final Release of the JAIN SLEE specification, Java
Specification Request (JSR) 22.
Sun's new Netra 240 server is the first Netra server to be both AC
and DC powered that is available in a 2RU, 20-inch-deep compact form
factor. The ruggedized, customer-installable server features
numerous remote management capabilities (Sun Advanced Lights Out
Management).
The Liberty Alliance has become, at least in the mobile market, the de
facto standard for identity services. Liberty specifications deliver
not only such benefits as access control and remote payment and
geolocation data services, but also appropriate levels of cost for
improved identity solutions.
The Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (ASI SIG)
recently released four complementary protocols that enhance the core
Advanced Switching specification and free it from previous reliance on
proprietary solutions. ASI SIG also welcomed a number of new member
organizations, including Sun Microsystems.
The message protection platform, Proofpoint Protection Server 2.0,
comes with a variety of new enterprise-grade features such as enhanced
message protection, advanced content filtering, no need for
administration and superior end user customization. The solution allows
enterprises to block spam and viruses, as well as comply with email
policies and regulations regarding outbound messages.
The DocumentExpress with DjVu technology from LizardTech helps companies
maintain and efficiently distribute high fidelity images while reducing
storage costs without sacrificing image quality.
RFTagAware 1.0 software from ConnecTerra is used for developing and
deploying reliable enterprise RFID-enabled applications. Customers can
manage real-time data from RF tags and sensors.
Insightful Corporation has released version 6.2 of its S-PLUS Server, a
software product designed for the development and deployment of
analytic applications created with S-PLUS.
S-PLUS Server is supported on Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and IBM
AIX platforms. S-PLUS Server will be available on March 30, 2004.
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