Sun's drive to promote openness and sharing industry and worldwide highlights this week's edition with announcements that include a new Open Service Delivery Platform Solutions Program [14609], a new initiative called Share the Opportunity Global Giving [14610], a new branding and advertising campaign that ties into the company's philosophy to share technology and drive innovation [14584], and donations of StarOfficeTM to qualified nonprofits in technology-hungry countries [14612].
Sun's plans to acquire StorageTek for USD$4.1 billion [14589] is the focus of an interview with Sun Executive Vice President of the Network Storage Products Group Mark Canepa [14598].
The Software section offers information on an online manual for the SunTM Studio 10 [14600], a technical article on using SolarisTM Zones to support applications [14599] and a list of supportive applications available for the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) [14538].
Receive either a free Apple 4 GB iPod Mini [14593] or a free combination Bushnell ImageView digital camera with binoculars [14592] by signing up for select Sun training courses.
Two JavaTM technology-specific publications are covered in this week's edition: "JavaTM Language Specification, The 3rd Edition" [14569] and "Learning Java, Third Edition" [14585]. Also, download a free copy of the JavaTM BluePrints book "Designing Web Services with the J2EETM 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies" [14572].
The Java Internal Use License for JDKTM 5.0 has been released [14580].
Learn about Claimonitor - a new web-based Straight-through Processing (STP) utility for automating transactions and market-related claims [14616], Oracle licensing of SolarisTM Containers [14579] and a new OEM agreement between MindTree and Sun [14582].
Sun has launched an Open Service Delivery Platform Solutions Program designed to assist telecommunications service providers deliver consumer and enterprise services using technologies such as IMS and VoIP. This program presents a framework of discrete technologies, products and services based on Sun products and technologies in collaboration with other industry players.
Sun's upcoming Netra Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) blade platform performed with NTT COMWARE's next-generation SIP application server technology, demonstrating "triple-play" services at SUPERCOMM 2005 held this month in Chicago. During the event, Sun also announced alliances with leading real-time data management software providers TimesTen and Solid Information Technology.
Sun's Share the Opportunity global giving initiative was unveiled during the Participation Age conference held at the United Nations this past week. This initiative will focus Sun's worldwide philanthropic efforts on increasing network accessibility and providing opportunities for global economic growth and social progress.
Sun recently launched a new branding campaign and related advertising to demonstrate the company's commitment to the concept of sharing, a core value across the organization since its inception. This campaign focuses on the power of sharing and collaboration by featuring Sun customers and illustrating the solutions the companies have created together.
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Attend a qualifying Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) instructor-led course and receive a free Apple 4 GB iPod mini. To qualify, purchase a course by July 9, 2005 and complete the course by July 30, 2005. Course purchase must be made 21 days prior to the class start date.
Receive a combination Bushnell ImageView digital camera with binoculars free by attending any four-day Sun training course during the week of June 27, 2005. Any instructor-led Sun training course that begins on June 27 and ends on June 30 qualifies. Online courses are excluded.
Sun and Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) have signed a definitive agreement under which Sun will acquire StorageTek, a worldwide technology company that delivers a broad range of storage management offerings, for approximately USD$4.1 billion. This acquisition is expected to strengthen Sun's goal of solving complex network computing problems for governments, enterprises and service providers.
Claimonitor is a new web-based Straight-through Processing (STP) utility for automating transactions and market-related claims in the global custodian, investment banking, asset management and broker communities. This new standards-based automation utility is scheduled to go live in July 2005, as a result of a combined effort from Sun, Metatomix Inc. and Claimonitor Ltd.
Oracle now offers its customers running a Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) environment the option to license only the processors or cores that are running the Oracle binaries. This announcement is attributed to Oracle's recognition of the Solaris Containers as licensable entities, known as hard partitions.
MindTree Consulting has entered into an OEM agreement with Sun to deploy solutions based on the Sun Java Enterprise System for customers in key verticals. This international IT consulting company, co-headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey and Bangalore, India, delivers affordable business and technology solutions through global software development.
Mark Canepa, executive vice president of the Network Storage Products Group, will be overseeing Sun's acquisition of Storage Technology Corp (StorageTek). Canepa recently spoke to Lucas Mearian with Computerworld about this announcement, Sun's plans to merge the two companies, and how this buyout might affect products, resellers, employees and customers.
StarOffice Suite will be made available to eligible nonprofit and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the US and countries around the world as a result of a collaborative effort between Sun and Gifts In Kind International. This leading worldwide charity in the field of product philanthropy will distribute Sun's donated StarOffice software to qualified NGOs and nonprofits.
Sun has released an online manual covering the performance analysis tools in the Sun Studio 10 software. The manual, which is intended for application developers familiar with Fortran, C, C++ or the Java programming language, provides information on the Collector and Performance Analyzer, prof and gprof and tcov tools.
Sun engineers Paul Lovvik and Joseph Balenzano have written an article describing how to use Solaris Zones, a feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), to support applications within a zone. This Sun Developer Network Web site article describes zones, privileged versus unprivileged users, zone security, zone limitations, troubleshooting and QA.
With the high interest in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun has published a list of complementary software solutions from Sun partners that go hand-in-hand to maximize the features and capabilities of this UNIX platform. All the listed applications are set to be released sometime in 2005.
James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele and Gilad Bracha have written the third edition of the "Java Language Specification," which is set for release June 17, 2005. Published by Addison Wesley, this release has been called the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language written by the inventors of Java technology.
The third edition of "Learning Java" covers the updates introduced with the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0. Authors Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen maintain its hands-on tutorial style and no-nonsense approach to applying the Java programming language into real-world applications.
Sun has released the Java Internal Use License (JIUL) for the JDK 5.0 that allows developers to make changes to the JDK easily for their own internal deployments. Programmers using the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 under the JIUL now are able to fix any critical issue in the code that adversely affects their business operations.
Download free the Java BluePrints book "Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies" for a best practices guide to designing and integrating enterprise-level web services using the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4. This book is meant to help readers develop robust and effective web services on the J2EE 1.4 platform or later.
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