This week, look for the Executive Review [13523] that summarizes last
month's top articles including Sun's fiscal fourth quarter report, a
candid interview with Scott McNealy and insights from Sun executives on
company and product strategies.
News stories from this past week cover a recent report on Sun's server
volume growth [13514], details on Sun's Linux offerings [13543], as
well as SaskTel [13493] and Tata Teleservices' [13470] recent deals with
Sun.
Plus, Sun's newest business unit, Wall Street Technologies, is
introduced [13515].
The latest on Sun software entails SunTM Studio 9 [13528] and DTrace
[13526]. Also, find an overview of the new JavaTM Web Services
Developer Pack 1.4 [13465] and J2METM features that shouldn't go
unnoticed [13516].
A review on the Sun FireTM V40z and V20z Server architecture [13486]
and a Sun Fire V20z server promotion [13489] are available in the
Entry-level Server section.
For Sys Admins, learn how to create a multi-boot disk for systems with
AMD Opteron processors, including the new 64-bit Opteron machines from
Sun [13529].
According to the preliminary 2Q03 Worldwide Server Database report
released by Gartner Dataquest, Sun outpaced the overall marked and all
tracked competitors in server unit volume growth. The report
concentrates on unit shipments, rather than revenue, for all operating
systems and for worldwide x86 32-bit servers.
Sun chose last week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo to announce a
number of its Linux product entries for the low-cost computing market.
Sun offers such high-performance server products as the Sun Fire
V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers, the Sun Java W1100z and Sun
Java W2100z workstations, plus software such as the Sun Java
Enterprise System, the Sun Java Desktop System, Java technology
and developer tools.
Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel) has deployed the Sun Java
Enterprise System running on the Solaris 9 Operating System
(Solaris OS), to support its new eMessaging solution targeted at small-
to medium-sized enterprises in Western Canada.
Julia Fernandes reports from Mumbai that Tata Teleservices, a private
telecom provider, has signed with Sun to deploy Sun Fire 15K
enterprise class high-end servers in support of its mission critical
applications for billing, CRM, ERP, order management and data
warehousing.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with the most popular articles of the current and last volumes. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
77.4: Once a "Social Movement," It's now Sun vs. RedHat
77.3: McNealy Says Sun Fundamentally Focused and He Plans On Staying
77.2: Gary Grimes to Retire as Sun's VP for Channel Partners
Computerworld's Lucas Mearian queried Stuart Wells, newly named as Senior
VP of Wall Street Technologies at Sun, about the company's renewed efforts
to court financial services business.
Innovations ranging from supercomputing to sensor technology, storage,
security and speech recognition were on display at the annual open house
conducted by Sun Labs at the end of July. Ten leading researchers at Sun
spoke about their work at Sun Labs while more than 40 demonstrations gave
attendees a glimpse of the technological advancements the lab is
producing.
Hundreds of new customers have implemented new Sun solutions, as have
many existing Sun customers, all of them convinced that managing IT
costs and complexity is the key to delivering greater value to their
respective customer base. This article highlights a few of these
industry leaders.
It sounds like the IT ship has come in for the College of Oceanic
Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) at Oregon State University...the Sun
Microsystems ship, that is. Manager Chuck Sears terms the Sun IT
solutions COAS has implemented "Nirvana"...if they can scale, that is.
Immediate availability of the Linux version of Sun Studio 9
development tools for C, C++ and Fortran was announced by Sun at the
LinuxWorld Conference held in San Francisco. Also available for the
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun Studio 9 provides a comprehensive, productive environment for developing scalable 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
The much anticipated DTrace was recently evaluated by
eWeek Labs. Senior Analyst Jason Brooks described it as "one compelling
new Solaris component...that opens to developers and system
administrators a window onto the workings of the operating system and
the applications that run on it."
Sun is searching for stories on beloved Solaris Operating Systems (Solaris OS). Send in a minimum of four sentences explaining why you love your Solaris OS, and automatically be entered into a monthly drawing to win
an Apple 20 GB iPod, that is a $300 value. Contest will run through
December 31, 2004.
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.
The Embedded Software Development Conference, scheduled for August
17-19 in San Jose, California, targets embedded development where it
meets the enterprise -- at the operating system and application level.
The agenda includes more than 50 classes and tutorials.
The CMP XChange 2004 Conference will take place in Chicago, IL on
August 15-18. The keynote speaker is Richard Andersen, Sr., eBay
category manager for computers and networking, who will discuss how
converting assets into cash on eBay can be a profit center for VARs and
SPs and a cost-recovery opportunity for businesses. Sun is a sponsor.
Infrastructure decision makers who find data volume pushing the storage
infrastructure envelope or who are getting increased pressure to deal
with data management and business continuity and need to learn more
about information lifecycle management will want to attend Storage
Networking World-Europe, September 7-8, in Frankfurt Messe, Germany.
The Sun Netra 440 server, a NEBS-certified four-processor machine
can help telecom providers with the round-the-clock network service
they guarantee with its ability to run non-stop even under the most
extreme conditions: the Netra 440 server will run for four days in
120-degree F temperatures without failing.
The Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers are the first in a
new line of AMD Opteron processor-based Sun servers and mark a turning
point for Sun in its quest for the x86 market.
The Sun Fire V20z Enterprise Essentials Promotion offers several
values to users, including the new Sun Fire V20z server for up to 41
percent off the retail price and a three-year subscription to the
reliable, highly scalable Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
(x86 Platform Edition) and SunSpectrum Silver level support,
through December 31, 2004.
This section recaps the top articles of the past month, grouped by
topic, highlighting important news from Sun. Significant business in
July included the release of Sun's fiscal fourth quarter report, a
candid interview with Sun CEO Scott McNealy and insights from various Sun executives regarding company and product strategies.
Qusay H. Mahmoud provides an overview of the new Java Web Services
Developer Pack 1.4 (Java WSDP 1.4), noting the numerous features that are
part of the latest release.
In "Optimizing Build Times Using Parallel `make'," Morgan Herrington
demonstrates the value of using the parallel capabilities of the make
utility to reduce compile times.
In "JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing," authors
J.B. Rainsberger and Scott Stirling offer 137 solutions to a wide
range of unit testing problems for the Java programming language.
Craig Winter, in his BigAdmin article "Creating a Multi-Boot Disk for
Machines With AMD Opteron Processors" illustrates how the new 64-bit
Opteron machines from Sun can be configured to run the Solaris
Operating System (Solaris OS) (x86 Platform Edition) and several
distributions of Linux, all from a single internal disk drive.
The Sun BluePrints OnLine paper "Ethernet Autonegotiation Best
Practices" by Jim Eggers and Steve Hodnett discusses the advantages of
using Ethernet autonegotiation when connecting Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps)
and Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps) NICs to network switches, routers and
hubs, recommending that users follow Sun's advice to leave Ethernet
autonegotiation enabled (default) when connecting devices that are
compliant with IEEE 802.3 standards.
The J2EE Policy Agent is one of the integration points or connectors
designed to work with the Sun Java System Access Manager (formerly
Sun Java System Identity Server) in protecting Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications in a variety of deployment
containers, in this case, one involving Oracle Application Server 10g.
The Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) has been identified
by many as the platform of choice for today's consumer and embedded
devices. However, Sun Consumer and Mobile Systems Group Chief
Technical Officer David Rivas believes J2ME's enterprise tools have not
been fully exploited by developers, who may not truly understand what
this platform offers.
The Java Education and Learning Community provides researchers,
teachers, programmers, authors, corporate trainers, administrators,
public officials, students and others a place to find, develop and
share Java technology-related open source educational tools, open
learning standards implementations and open course learning materials.
This month, Manning Publications is releasing "Hibernate in Action" to
assist Java technology developers everywhere learn how to use this
open source tool and alleviate many tedious tasks associated with
programming. This 400-page, softbound book is written by Hibernate founder Gavin King and core Hibernate developer team member Christian Bauer.
Author Michael Nash provides readers with an overview of the most
significant open source Java technology projects that are currently
available. Nash details how specific projects are designed to fulfill
particular programming needs with a focus on the modern component and
service-oriented design of each project.
PathScale Inc. has joined Sun and AMD in an engineering collaboration
that will enable customers to maximize their system throughput and
achieve record-setting benchmarks in their system's application-based
performances. The combination of PathScale EKO Compiler Suite on Sun's
AMD Opteron-based systems running Linux OS is proving to be
remarkable.
Parasoft Insure++ 6.1 is a tool that examines and tests code to expose
Parasoft Insure++ 6.1 is a tool that examines and tests code to expose
possible hidden defects saving developers weeks of debugging time.
Named as a finalist in the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards,
Insure++ 6.1 is available for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux, Windows NT/XP/2000, IBM AIX and HP-UX.
Ingrian Networks Inc. has expanded its support for cryptographic APIs.
Through its adoption of the Public Key Cryptography Standard (PKCS)
#11, the Ingrian DataSecure Platforms now easily integrate with
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Windows and Linux
environments. A provider of data privacy solutions, Ingrian strives to
protect sensitive information.
Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) is one of the latest
targeted platforms that Tarantella will now support with its upcoming
fourth quarter release of Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition 4
(EE 4) software. Features include enhanced security and encryption as
well as flexible client drive mapping.
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