The release of five Sun FireTM servers with the new UltraSPARCR IV+ processors [15171] tops this week's Sun News along with announcements targeting the Asia Pacific region, including major alliances and new customer wins [15136]; a SunSM Services Quality Institute opening in Singapore [15149]; and the Indonesia Ministry of Research and Technology's use of the Sun JavaTM Desktop System as a model for its nationwide standard solution [15146].
Sun's "Sustainable Computing" is garnering attention as Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy challenged leading U.S. CEOs to seriously evaluate their business strategies [15173]. Learn more about the principles behind this push for global sustainability [15095] in the Features section, which also contains an interview with the father of the Throughput Computing Paradigm [15089]; a look at grid and utility computing [15092]; and a Customer Data Warehouse solution that improved data latency from 42 days to just one for Egg plc [15099].
Software releases covered include the SunTM Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 [15141]; SunTM Secure Global Desktop [15142]; Sun N1TM System Manager [15144] and the upcoming StarOfficeTM/StarSuiteTM 8 [15165].
A free download and free software are detailed in the Sun Java System section with the Sun JavaTM Studio Creator 2 Early Access 2 release [15151] and FatWire Spark Portal Content Management [15143], respectively.
The fourth edition of "The JavaTM Programming Language" guide includes information on the JavaTM SE 5.0 and current best practices [15064]. Read about Become.com's Java technology web crawler [15085] and how to secure JavaTM EE applications [15063].
Information on using the OpenSolaris source code browser [15116] and maximizing Sun's new collaborative development capabilities [15113] are just part of the Developer's Section.
New UltraSPARC IV+ processors are powering five Sun Fire systems, which are available for purchase immediately. Announced September 20th, the Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900, E4900 and E6900 servers are powered by 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors and run the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
Sun announced major alliances and new customer wins during its JavaChina 2005 Developer Conference held September 13-14 in Beijing as well as eight additional cities throughout China via a satellite broadcast. Approximately 10,000 Java developers and IT professionals joined the conference underscoring the acceleration of Java technology adoption in China.
The Asia Pacific Sun Services Quality Institute in Singapore was announced by Sun last week with full support from the Singapore Economic Development Board. This announcement is significant since its implementation is a pilot for the Asian Pacific region and will serve as a guide to roll out the program globally.
A multi-year agreement between Sun Microsystems Indonesia and that country's Ministry of Research and Technology will see a nationwide standard desktop solution be implemented based on the Sun Java Desktop System. This collaboration is part of Sun's global SHARE campaign toward the Participation Age, which focuses on connecting individuals, corporations and communities.
Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy encouraged the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs with a combined workforce of more than 10 million employees and USD$4 trillion in annual revenues, to consider incorporating sustainable growth strategies within their businesses to help contribute measurably to improve society, the environment and the economy.
Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), has joined the Sun's board of directors, becoming the tenth member and one of eight independent directors. Mitchell is the first woman and first producer to lead the nation's only non-commercial media organization.
Sun has restated its fiscal 2003 and 2004 financial statements as a result of the company's identification of errors related to the accounting for deferred taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions, as well as the aggregate effect of corrections to provisions for state and foreign tax returns and withholding taxes.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last three issues. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
91.2: New to Solaris: A One-stop Center for All Your Solaris OS Needs
91.1: Significant Market Shift Expected by Impact from Multicore Processing
90.5: Sun's Scalable Systems Group Readies Releases
Chief Architect of Sun's Scalable Systems Group Marc Tremblay may not identify himself as a prophet, but his job duties and recent visions regarding multicore and multithreading technology seem to prove otherwise. Deemed the father of the multicore, multithread Throughput Computing paradigm, Tremblay appears to have a gift for determining future revolutionary technologies.
Unifying grid and utility computing may be one of this decade's significant advances in IT's evolutionary track. Chad Vander Veen with Government Technology takes a spectator's view of this ongoing process that could well serve science, business and government markets, he contends.
Egg plc provides banking, insurance, investments and mortgages to more than three million customers through its Internet site and other distribution channels. From Egg's inception in 1998, Sun has supported this online bank with its Web infrastructure and most recently with Egg's Customer Data Warehouse (CDW).
Most organizations do not even consider the negative impact IT has on the environment. Sun has investigated the direct and indirect impact of IT on both climate change and sustainable development, and has created a vision for "Sustainable Computing" that addresses many of these environmental challenges.
Eager to gather user feedback to the release of the Sun Java Studio Creator 2, Sun has created an Early Access program that enables interested parties to download this new IDE free. Now on its second update, Java Studio Creator 2 is built on NetBeans 4.1 and features a new set of JavaServer Faces components and much more.
Customers of the Sun Java System Portal Server, including subscribers of the Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java Application Platform Suite, can now download FatWire's Spark Portal Content Management (pCM) software at no additional charge. Customers of these Sun products are eligible for pCM licenses with unlimited use.
Sun Java System Identity Auditor 1.5 is the first comprehensive identity audit solution available to help companies achieve repeatable, sustainable and cost-effective compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements across critical enterprise applications and across the identity management infrastructure. Multiple new features ease duties for system administrators and corporations alike.
Sun Microsystems has announced the release of version 5.5 of the Sun Java System Identity Manager, which includes enhancements to reporting, identity synchronization capabilities (ActiveSync), resource adapter support,
general deployability and platform support. This solution is the industry's first complete user provisioning and meta-directory solution.
Rhonda Asciento reports that Axcess International, an RFID hardware and software maker, has become one of the first active-RFID hardware builders to adopt Sun Java System RFID middleware. Initial plans at Axcess call for the use of this Sun Java software on the readers it manufactures for healthcare applications.
Sun has announced the release of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 software, a brand new product from the N1 Software organization. Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 software enables a multi-site disaster recovery solution that manages the availability of application services and data across geographically dispersed Sun Clusters.
Now customers can consolidate critical desktop applications and data onto the data center servers easily and simply with Sun Secure Global Desktop Software which provides secure access to server-based applications running on Microsoft Windows, the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Mainframe and Midrange systems from a wide variety of client platforms and devices.
Sun is helping customers address the complexities of managing proliferating IT systems with its new infrastructure life cycle management software, Sun N1 System Manager. Designed specifically to address the problems associated with managing infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, N1 System Manager helps customers provision, monitor, patch, and manage Sun Fire x64 servers and SPARC workgroup servers.
Sun has announced the release of its office productivity solution, Sun StarOffice8/StarSuite 8, which comes in two editions, Enterprise Edition - sold as the Enterprise RTU/Media product on the Sun/partner price lists - and the Standard Edition - included in the retail/etail offering, the download and OEM version.
If you're new to the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), John Stearns recommends an easy way to get a quick exposure to the code, which is through the OpenSolaris source browser. A download of the complete codebase for those interested in working on an OpenSolaris project also is available.
Both Ashwin Rao and Marina Sum agree that the best possible exploitation of the monumental release by Sun of the collaborative development capabilities in the Sun Java Studio Enterprise Software to the NetBeans open source environment will result from the collaborative efforts of developers themselves.
Ajax developers Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello have written "Ajax in Action," a guide aimed at web developers with prior experience in web technologies, independent of the server technologies used. Portions of the book, whose publication date is set for October, are available as downloads from the publisher's web site.
At the recent eBay Developers Conference in San Jose, California, NetBeans evangelist Brian Leonard demonstrated in just a few minutes the value of the NetBeans IDE for creating a simple storefront manager that enables sellers on eBay to alter the look and theme of their web site.
A completely revised Fourth Edition of "The Java Programming Language" is available, reflecting the major enhancements of the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (Java SE). Written by James Gosling, Ken Arnold and David Holmes, this manual is a valuable resource for programmers at all levels of expertise.
A Java technology web crawler has been created by Become.com that could be the most sophisticated and massively scaled Java technology application today. Reportedly, this web crawler obtains information on over three billion web pages and writes over eight terabytes of data on 30 fully distributed servers in seven days.
In a Sun Developer Network technical article, Srividhya (Vidhya) Narayanan, Chris Webster and Marina Sum explain the security aspects of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition and demonstrate how to protect resources in a sample web application and a web service with Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 and Sun Java System Application Server 8.1.
A Sun technical white paper entitled "Developing a Service Engine Component" gives interested Java developers a hands-on example of the construction and deployment of a Java Business Integration (JBI) service engine component. The JBI 1.0 specification was approved this summer as a final standard by the Java Community Process (JCP).
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