The Executive Review of May 2004 starts off this edition with highlights from last month's top stories [13127].

For the first week in June, Sun's quarterly systems release, Network Computing 04Q2, headlines the news with more than 30 new technology innovations along with new subscription and utility-based delivery models introduced at the SunNetworkSM Conference in Shanghai, PRC [13154].

Product launches included the self-healing, self-managing Dynamic File System, which provides 16 billion billion times more capacity than current 64-bit file systems [13167]. An innovative pay-for-use storage solution called the SunTM Utility Computing for Sun StorEdgeTM Systems that delivers storage capacity when needed [13166].

Sixteen new SunTM Reference Architectures and Solutions also were released advancing data center efficiency [13160]. The industry's lowest-priced, ruggedized, four-way UltraSPARCR server running enterprise-class 64-bit SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) is now available as the NetraTM 440 [13162].

Other software releases included the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System Release 2 with extended support for the Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) and Linux [13155], the Sun JavaTM System RFID Software [13161] and the Sun JavaTM Desktop System Release 2 [13157].

And, the rumors have been confirmed, Sun plans on open sourcing Solaris OS [13199].

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Highlighting this week's issue are articles addressing the realities of the Sun/Microsoft agreement [13227], the challenges facing network security and Web Services [13278] and an upcoming software analysis tool that is sure to spice up analyzing and editing JavaTM programming language code designs and architectures [13268].

New standard configurations are now available for the Sun FireTM V250 [13260], Sun FireTM V60 and Sun FireTM V65x servers [13096]. A Sun BluePrintsTM article offers information on auto diagnosis and recovery enhancements for Sun FireTM hardware midrange servers [13214].

Also, find out the latest in Sun's advanced file system software [13261] and the three new Sun StorEdgeTM 9900 Series CopyCentral version 2.0 software solutions for easy management of data replication [13257].

New releases and enhancements complete the Sun JavaTM section including the integration of Describe UML within the Sun JavaTM Studio Enterprise [13087], new Sun JavaTM System Access Manager software [13243], the Sun JavaTM System Portal Server release [13240] and improvements on the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System communication components [13242].

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The 2004 JavaOneSM Conference headlines this week's issue with the introduction of the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM) 5.0 [13348]. Commercial availability of the Sun JavaTM Studio Creator was announced [13349] along with a promotion offering this tool free with a SunSM Developer Network Subscription [13350]. Read about the Sun Java Studio Creator's multiple configuration availability [13338] and get details on a new book that examines this recent release [13315].

Also making news, Sun's contributions of Project Looking Glass, Java 3DTM technology, among others to the open source community [13347]. Project Kitty Hawk's introduction as a new Sun initiative was revealed as an expansion of SOA-enabling capabilities in multiple Sun products [13352].

The release of NetBeansTM 4.0 is enticing developers with its full JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) application development capabilities [13358], which were announced by Dr. James Gosling, who also revealed his thoughts on Sun's future [13333]. Keynote speeches by Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy [13357] and Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz [13346] are also featured.

Other releases covered this week include the JavaTM Dynamic Management Kit Version 5.1 for J2SE platform [13244], Java Desktop Network Components API [13328] and Sun StorEdgeTM 6920 System [13344].

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This week includes a summary of the most popular articles from May and June [13234]. Sun is expecting the market for mobile applications in China to boom to US$1 billion [13170]. Sun is also creating a new Web blog site so its own employees can better communicate both internally and to the rest of the developer community [13223].

The JavaTM section details the free download of the JavaTM Application Server Standard Edition 7 2004Q2 [13222]. The FOSS section looks at the new open source development suite distribution: OpenEnterpriseX [13150].

The Developer section describes what a user can expect with JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM platform) 1.5 [13146].

The Retail section is included this week, and focuses on RFID market readiness [13224] and new solutions [13145]. The Education section looks at how the JavaSM Education and Learning Community is unifying and strengthening standards [13168].

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This week we shed more light on interoperability and the recent Sun/Microsoft agreement [13277]. The Sun RayTM Users Group aims to unite resources in order to facilitate technological collaboration [13303]. Sun Labs' Dr. Radia Perlman has been recognized as an Inventor of the Year [13296].

The Features section offers interviews with John Fowler [13305], John Gage [13252] and Piper Cole [13294].

In the JavaTM Technology section, mobile data service growth is getting a helping hand from Java technology [13270]. Beginning and intermediate developers will benefit from the new book, "Covert Java: Techniques for Decompiling, Patching, and Reverse Engineering" [13288].

The Free and Open Source Software section previews MozillaTM 1.8 Alpha 1 and Thunderbird 0.7 [13299], and announces new releases of Mozilla 1.7 [13298] and OpenOffice.org version 1.1.2 [13318].

Our industry section this week is Government, with articles on the US Army's expansion of its recruitment document management system [13229] and Sun's new division: Global Government Office [13312].

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