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].
Not true, says Sun, that its agreement with Microsoft is all smoke and
mirrors. In fact, with $2 billion changing hands and a 10-year
technology collaboration framework agreement on record, the obligations
and opportunities of both parties are clear.
A new brand of SALSA is set to enter the market in the next three to
six months: Sun Appliance for Live Software Analysis, designed to help
Sun Professional Services staff assist clients in analyzing and
editing Java programming language code designs and architectures.
Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer for Sun, sees reliably
securing Web Services as a fundamental concern facing network security
experts. With the advancements in Web technology rapidly evolving and
users relying on it as a primary resource, this is one challenge that
will take years to conquer.
The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for Vol 75
and the first two issues of Vol 76. The top article for Vol 76 Issue 2
was "Semi-finalists in Petaflops Supercomputer Derby Aim for 2006 Finish Line" [13216];
For Vol 76 Issue 1 it was "Sun Confirms Plans to Open Source Solaris Operating System" [13199]
; and for Vol 75 the top article was "Scott McNealy Discusses Sun's Partners" [12865].
StarOffice 7 is becoming widely accepted as a primary office suite
within the global educational arena, and India is taking notice and following suit. According to Software Country Manager Manish Kapoor with Sun in India, the volume of StarOffice sales has approximately tripled since the software's initial launch.
Named by InfoWorld as one of its "Innovators to Watch in 2005," Hideya
Kawahara, Sun Senior Staff Engineer on Project Looking Glass, shared
his insights on the 3D technology on the sun.com Web site.
What's wrong with floating point calculations anyway? Not much, unless
you're concerned with rounding errors that can result in different
answers to the same problem run on parallel machines. Then you're stuck
trying to figure out whether the difference stems from rounding, from a
software error or a hardware flaw. Bill Walster suggests a better
alternative: interval arithmetic.
For years now, television has grappled with the issue of identity and
has come up with little more than a view of itself as an access device
for TV channels. For nearly as many years, Sun Laboratories (Sun Labs) has been working on solutions that will enable television to take a broader view of itself and to become a more resourceful provider of services to its viewers.
Sun will integrate Embarcadero Technologies' Describe Unified Modeling
Language (UML) design software with the Sun Java Studio Enterprise,
gaining unlimited distribution and usage rights to Describe's
standards-based modeling technology.
Enhancements to the Sun Java System Portal Server product line
include improvements in the Sun Java System Portal Server Secure
Remote Access 6 2004Q2 and the Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile
Access 6 2004Q2.
Sun has released updates of its Sun Java System Messaging Server 6,
Sun Java System Calendar Server and Sun Java Instant Messaging,
all of which are available as components of the Sun Java Enterprise
System 2004Q2.
Among its other new features, the Sun Java System Access Manager
2004Q2 (formerly Sun Java System Identity Server) becomes the first
access management product to support the Liberty v2.0 and SAML v1.1
protocols, allowing the creation of trusted networks across enterprise
divisions and with service provider partners. The revised solution also
supports Windows Desktop Single Sign-on through a Kerberos pluggable
authentication module.
This article is a calendar of upcoming events, with links to the articles about them. Click on the article numbers in the calendar to get more details about the event and how to register.
At the XML Summer School 2004, scheduled for Wadham College, University
of Oxford from July 25-30, students can expect to benefit from the
three-track program that includes an introduction for beginners, a
technical track and an applications track.
Don't miss the session on Sun N1 Grid Containers, which will debut
with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). If your company
is considering consolidation, you will need the information from this
Sun Expert Panel that includes Dan Price, David Comay and Andrew
Tucker, all Solaris Kernel Engineers, and Christopher Ratcliffe,
Director of Marketing, Solaris 10 OS. It happens on Wednesday, July 21 at 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EDT).
The OpenOffice.org Conference is soliciting papers in the areas of
software politics, the Open Source movement and corporate involvement
in OpenOffice.org, as well as on development, localization and
marketing of OpenOffice.org.
A recent Sun BluePrints OnLine article focuses on the Sun Fire
hardware midrange servers availability enhancements offered in system
controller (SC) firmware versions 5.15.0 through 5.17.0 and the
required minimum Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) kernel updates.
The article is aimed at support personnel who possess basic technical
knowledge of the Sun Fire midrange servers.
Sun has made power cord kit options available for the Sun Fire 2900
and Sun Fire V1280 servers. There are five power cord kits, each
containing four power cords.
Sun's Temporary Capacity On Demand (T-COD) offering for the Sun
Fire 3800 through Sun Fire 15K server line and Sun Fire E4900
through E25K server line is being repriced on a global basis.
Receive discounts of 80 percent or more on licenses for 2 CPU systems of the Sun Java System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Server)
when purchased with select entry-level Sun Fire servers. This
extends a former promotion through June 30, 2005, and now also includes
an additional server and software media kit.
The Sun Fire V250 server configurations now have standard 73 GB drives, pre-installed Sun Java Enterprise System software for a 90-day
evaluation, StarOffice 7 and the Solaris 9 Operating System
(Solaris OS). This ready-to-deploy, next generation, low-end dual
processor tower offers enterprise level features and now a full
software stack.
Sun is offering the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x systems
with a standard 73 GB/10K RPM disk drive. Sun also is announcing new
ATO compute node configurations for Sun Fire V60x Compute Grid rack
system with 73 GB/10K RPM drive.
Get better deployment of the Sun Fire V20z server with its support of two
additional disk drives: the 146 GB/10K and the 73 GB/15K drives. Sun
also is announcing price adjustments for 2 x 1 GB option, 2 x 2 GB
memory and the Quad port gigabit Ethernet card.
The new versions of Sun's advanced file systems that enable information
sharing, distribution and life cycle management have been released. Sun
StorEdge QFS and Sun StorEdge SAM-FS 4.1 provide a Web-based
Management Portal called SAM-QFS Manager that allows for configuration
and control of one or more SAM-QFS servers with secure role-based
access.
Sun is offering three Sun StorEdge 9900 Series CopyCentral
version 2.0 software solutions for a consistent user interface when managing Sun replication solutions on Sun StorEdge 9970 and Sun StorEdge
9980 systems attached to IBM z/OS and MVS mainframe environments.
With the increasing amount of storage required to effectively and
efficiently operate business these days, many companies are exploring
managed storage services and finding the benefits far outweigh the fear
of change.
Norbert Lindenbert and Masayoshi Okutsu explain how the Java
technology platform is being enhanced to enable processing of
supplementary characters, those characters in the Unicode standard with
code points above U+FFFF, which cannot therefore be described as single
16-bit entities. Since these include characters that are commonly found
in some Chinese and Japanese personal names, the ability to describe
them is vital for Java technology to make the most complete penetration
of the Asian market.
Hans Bergsten, author of "JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition," explains why
he believes that JSP Document has more flexible format rules in JSP
2.0, enabling the creation of "well-formed XML documents," or documents with XHTML and JavaServer Pages (JSP) elements. He provides detailed examples covering the various capabilities available utilizing JSP Document within this Java specification.
Sathyanarayanan C. Srinivasan and Sivasundaram Umapathy have written a
white paper that outlines a regimen for preparing to take the Sun
Certified Mobile Application Developer (SCMAD) exam. The authors touch
on prerequisites and detail the elements covered by the test.
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