This week's news section includes an article on GE's adoption of the Sun JavaTM Identity Manager solution, which it is deploying worldwide throughout its corporate IT infrastructure [14869]. There is also an article that tells of a poll of 1,200 respondents who expressed a decided preference for the Blu-ray DVD Standard [14849].
The Java section this week features two articles on AJAX, one having to do with creating web applications with that tool [14621] and the other presents design details on customizing the JavaServerTM Faces component of the AJAX auto-completion function [14841].
Security section readers will learn about the security features of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) [14859], a building-block approach to system security [14858] and a report of a survey on the importance of identity management to the compliance effort [14857].
Readers with an interest in developer-related topics will find articles on SolarisTM 10 OS as a SIP Server [14730], an appraisal of the early access edition of Sun JavaTM Studio Creator 2 [14839], information on newly available tools to support AJAX [14856] and a piece that provides detailed instructions for the installation and configuration of SunTM Cluster 3.1 09/04 software [14749].
In Sys Admin, there are articles on automating the setup of Sun Fire TM V20z and Sun FireTM V40z servers [14726], a discussion of the features of the Accounting and Reporting Console that is part of the N1TM Grid Engine 6 solution [14659] and a case study on migration from Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility to the N1 Grid Engine Software [14690].
In FOSS this week, there are articles on OpenSolaris user groups [14877], acquiring and building source code for OpenSolaris [14843], connecting OpenOffice.org Office Suite to a MySQL Database [14850], a progress report on the Nevada development community [14845], the formation of the MozillaTM Corporation [14874] and security guidelines for the Enterprise Grid Alliance [14842].
Partner news includes an article on the revamping of its partner programs that Sun is undertaking [14875], a new agreement between Sun and Inner Circle Logistics [14804], the availability of PolarLake Integration Suite on the Solaris 10 OS [14860], the collaboration between Sun and Interwoven on the Enterprise Content Management Platform [14833] and the opening of the Advanced Technology Center in Singapore as the result of the joint efforts of Sun and NOL Group [14852].
General Electric has opted for the Sun Java System Identity Manager, deploying the solution across all its business units and 450,000 users worldwide. With Java System Identity Manager in place, GE can provision and de-provision user accounts using an individual's specific job function, geography and role.
Asked whether they preferred the Blu-ray next-generation DVD standard to the rival HD DVD standard, 1,200 consumers polled by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates on questions concerning company support, Hollywood studio support, gaming console support, disc capacity, movie title availability and anticipated launch dates registered a preference for Blu-ray technology by a margin of 58 percent to 16 percent with 26 percent undecided.
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Meeting last week with solution partners at Access Distribution's New Frontiers Conference, Rich Napolitano, president of Sun's U.S. sales organization, announced that plans are underway to change partner programs as a means of improving its ROI with individual solution providers. Sun plans to meet several times with its partner advisory councils to develop the new programs.
Sun and Inner Circle Logistics Inc. (ICLogistics) are at work on a joint auto identification and data capture (AIDC) project that will marry ICLogistics' Scarborough Fair, web services and RFID capability with Sun hardware and web services to deliver a turnkey RFID-enabled solution that will exceed the already demanding requirements set by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense.
PolarLake has made its PolarLake Integration Suite available on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), which will enable organizations to deliver incremental integration projects and automate complex business processes on the high performance, high availability operating system that has demonstrated its capability for use in mission critical computing.
With its agreement to resell the Interwoven Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform in conjunction with its own Sun Java Enterprise System software and associated hardware, Sun has positioned itself as a provider of complete end-to-end systems for governments, enterprises and service providers.
The newly opened NOL-Sun Advanced Technology Center in Singapore, supported in part by the Singapore Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), features up-to-date testing facilities for evaluating RFID technology and applications in a live supply chain environment.
Developers are responding enthusiastically to the OpenSolaris project as is evident in the activity seen since Sun released the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) source code in June. User groups, like the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group, are emerging worldwide where users can collaborate and help drive this project in the direction most beneficial for the community.
Rich Teer has written a pair of articles for the open source community on putting OpenSolaris to work. In his first article, he discusses how to acquire and build the source code, providing both the necessary background information and describing a basic compilation and installation.
Readers interested in the possibility of using the combined power of the OpenOffice.org office suite and the MySQL database to perform such tasks as generating personalized sales letters from stored customer data will find Rob Reilly's suggestions in an article hosted on News Forge of considerable value.
Even as users are learning to exploit the capabilities of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), the OpenSolaris Community is hard at work on developing Nevada, which is Sun's code name for the next release of the Solaris OS.
The Mozilla Corporation, newly formed as a wholly owned subsidiary by its parent organization the Mozilla Foundation, will focus on developing and delivering end-user products. This new entity is expected to generate revenue; however, the Mozilla Corporation only intends to pursue those activities that fit with the Mozilla project's focus.
The Enterprise Grid Alliance, an open consortium focused on developing and promoting enterprise grid solutions, has just released its Enterprise Grid Security Requirements document, providing users with information for evaluating and making informed risk management decisions as they deploy enterprise grids.
Among its many virtues, the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) can be run as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server, using the MySQL database, which comes bundled with the Solaris 10 OS release, for persistence. Authors Ezhilan Narasimhan, Mayank Gupta, Prameet Chhabra demonstrate this use of the Solaris 10 OS and more.
Dick Wall, lead systems engineer at NewEnergy Associates, is a veteran user of the Sun Java Studio Creator and recently expressed his delight with Sun Java Studio Creator 2.0 Early Access (EA). He found this release has smoothed the learning curve that faced every casual user of a fully Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)-capable IDE.
Sun has thrown its hat into the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) ring with Sun Java Studio Creator 2.0, which will support AJAX via a component library, allowing users to build interactive web applications with a combination of HTML, JavaScript and XMLHTTP. Darryl K. Taft surveyed the developments involving AJAX for eWeek.
Given the increasing need for 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications and the limiting factor that clean reboots impose on system availability, the capability of Sun Cluster 3.1 software to migrate from server to server eliminates the single-machine reboots and system downtime.
Typically, users setting up the Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers perform the tasks of service processor setup, service processor management, and server (BIOS) and service processor firmware updates manually. Jacques Bessoudo shows how these steps can be automated in his Sun BluePrints OnLine paper. He details the steps for creating scripts for the automation of these tasks and running them in parallel on multiple systems.
The Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCO), an exclusive feature of the Sun's N1 Grid Engine software, is a module that collects and analyzes details of usage on the grid, enabling administrators to maximize utilization of compute resources. The white paper examines the capabilities and features of the tool.
Kirk Patton of Transmeta and Omar Hassaine of Sun have written about Transmeta's migration from Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility (LSF 4.0.1) to the Sun's N1Grid Engine 6 software. This paper hosted on the Sun BigAdmin Web site covers comparison of the respective feature sets of both solutions and more.
Greg Murray writes about how users can take advantage of the advances in JavaScript programming language and cascading style sheets (CSS) to create dynamic web applications that will work on all the major browsers without requiring plug-ins or relying on browser-specific features.
Wishing to introduce readers to the versatility of Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX), Tor Norbye has written about the design of a customized auto-completion JavaServer Faces component. This generic component can be used to show completion results for any type of data, using a method called "to return completion results."
"System Administration Guide: Security Services" is part of a multivolume set that covers a significant part of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) administration information. System administrators and interested users of the Solaris OS security features are the targeted audience for this online book.
Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. and Christoph L. Schuba prescribe an architectural approach to secure systems in their paper from the WET ICE 2005 meeting in Sweden. The authors recommend using a building block approach and a focus on iterative refinement that enterprises can use to transform legacy deployments.
At the bidding of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sun, Forrester Consulting conducted a survey of 152 executives of North American companies with more than USD$750 million in annual revenues. All were queried concerning their view of how well their company was positioning its compliance program with respect to the need to reduce cost and increase efficiency in the management of compliance across multiple sets of regulations.
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