Weekly Summary:

This week's edition reports on Sun's continual expansion of its alliances, technological innovations and open source projects:

• Sun and VERITAS exchange software support with SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) (x86 Platform Edition) and VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0 software [12982].
• Bohler Edelstahl teams with Sun toward an open systems platform [12970].
• The Java Community ProcessSM (JCPSM) Expert Group EG to develop a new JavaTM technology-based digital television API standard [12973].
• Solaris OS may soon be open sourced [12977].

Entry-Level Storage

Read about the latest Sun StorEdgeTM 3511 Array with Serial ATA disks [12956], the Sun StorEdgeTM T3 Array for the Workgroup [12758] and why the Sun StorEdgeTM 3310 SCSI Array is recommended for some EOL servers [12596].

Entry-Level Servers

Sun FireTM V440 and Sun FireTM V20z have new standard configurations [12946], [12945].

Sys Admin

Recently released SunTM Management Center 3.5 supports Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) and Linux agents [12969]. Sun also wants to hear from driver developers and has set up a point of contact [12919].

Promotions

Save on a range of Sun products from Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI and Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Systems [12900] to Solaris OS [12892], [12942] and Sun JavaTM Studio Enterprise [12967].

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Weekly Summary:

Sun is upping the industry ante. The company continues breaking world records. Most recently setting a TPC benchmark record with two Sun FireTM V440 servers in a clustered configuration running Sybase IQ Multiplex 12.5 [13067].

Plus, the recent appointment of John Fowler as executive vice president for Network Systems is set to strengthen Sun's position in the industry standard network computing infrastructure market [13068].

Focus also is on fulfilling the long-term agreement propositions outlined with Microsoft to increase interoperability in heterogeneous environments [13055].

Government

Sun-Microsoft alliance will benefit many industries, government particularly, with interoperability between systems and other products [13054].

Hardware

Offerings on remanufactured and EOL products [13024], new SunTM Rack cabinet [13023], Sun FireTM, Sun BladeTM, Sun RayTM spare parts [13025] and zero pricing on Sun FireTM E4900 Server Rack Mount [13027].

Software

The latest on the SunTM Cluster 3.1 Software for x86 Systems [13035] and SunTM Management Center 3.5, Update 1 [13015].

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This week's edition looks at the new SunTM Infrastructure Solution for N1TM Grid for SAP Solutions [13005] and the record setting performance of the Sun Fire V20z server [13032].

Sun has been awarded by Network Computing for the Nauticus Networks N2000 Series secure architecture [13033]. Specific interoperability information is available on the offerings from Sun and Microsoft [12929].

The agenda for SunNetworkSM Shanghai 2004, Sun's biggest network event in Asia Pacific, is finally available [13030].

Sun JavaTM System

• Find out the details of the Sun JavaTM Desktop System, Release 2 [12984].

Java

• JSR 133, designed to correct the issues found in the Java technology Memory Model, is moving from committee to public review [12960].

FOSS

• The MozillaTM 1.4 browser is available for the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) (SPARCR Platform Edition) and (x86 Platform Edition) [12932].

Promos

• Save 50 percent on the Sun JavaTM Desktop System, Release 2 [13000], and continue to save on the Sun Cluster Agent License [12943].

Telco

• Sun is pleased about the recent Telco market surge and speculates on the industry's future [12989].
  
  

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Weekly Summary:

In this week's Features, read about Sun's NT$30 million donation to an industrial technology research institute [13084]. Nippon Paint becomes the first major Japanese company to choose the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System [13074]. Sun also secured more business than it anticipated with its recent HP Away program in the UK [13082].

The Entry-Level Servers section provides the details of the Sun FireTM V480 server [13020] and the new NetraTM 440 carrier-grade 5U DC Server [13098]. The JavaTM technology section describes a fix for a recent JSSE vulnerability [13072] and examines extensible code generation using XSLT [13031].

The Software section looks at how a construction firm is finding success with Sun RayTM thin clients [13093]. The Storage section details new offerings including SunSM Remote Services (SRS) Net Connect 3.1 [13088], Sun StorEdgeTM 9900 Series Dynamic Link Manager [13104] and two new versions of the Sun StorEdgeTM 9900 HiCommand software [13100].

This week's industry section is Education, which features Sun's 40 percent discount on the Sun Fire V20z Operton-based server [12927].

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