Making Sun News this week: the company's classification as a leader in user provisioning for identity management in a Gartner report [16360]; Sun FireTM T2000 server's database performance [16372]; a new vice president is named for Eco-Responsibility [16395]; four Sun executive women receive recognition [16351], among other stories.
Update 1 of Sun JavaTM Studio Creator IDE [16357] is available for download as is Sun JavaTM System Identity Manager 6.0 [16312].
JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition (JavaTM EE) 5 specification has been approved by the JCPSM[16377]. The 2006 JavaOneSM Conference gets underway [16342]. Read about Java CardTM 2.2.2 features [16341] and JXTATM technology's five year existence [16316].
For educators, learn about Sun's role in rebuilding an Iraqi virtual library [16361], discounts on the Sun UltraTM 45 workstations [16320], why one university is raving about Sun's Data Management Group [16220], and much more.
The FOSS section covers OpenSPARC T1 1.0.1 availability [16285], ISO's approval of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) for office documents [16376] and ODF versus OpenXML [16256].
This week's edition also hosts Partners, Promotions and WebEvents sections.
All you need do is to purchase any new Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV or Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ system, upgrade, or CPU board add-on in order to automatically qualify to receive Oracle database licenses free when you also sign up for one year of discounted Oracle database support services through Sun.
Submit technical tips and articles about Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) development and the Sun Studio tools for publication on developers.sun.com and earn points that translate into "BigAdmin Bucks" which can be redeemed for rewards. This limited-time reward program ends June 30, 2006.
Sun and some of its portal software partners are offering special promotions on their products. Purchase a Sun Fire X2100, Sun Fire X4100 or Sun Fire X4200 server and get 80 percent off the purchase price of the Sun Java System Portal Server from Sun. Sun partners also offering deals include FatWire, Elluminate, iWay and more.
Trade-in a Procom NetFORCE NAS System, Sun or non-Sun NFS server and apply up to eight percent toward any configuration of the Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS System or up to 15 percent for any Sun StorEdge 5210 configurations (hardware only).
Gartner has positioned Sun as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 1H06" report by Roberta Witty, Ant Allan and Ray Wagner published April 25, 2006. Gartner places companies in the "Leaders" quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Sun Weblogger BM Seer is touting the Sun Fire T2000 server's database performance in head-to-head comparisons with the Dell Xeon running Linux. Seer's results are from Sun's internally developed transaction processing database workload iGEN-OLTP 1.5 that simulates a light-weight Global Order System, stressing lock management and connectivity.
David Douglas has been named Sun vice president of Eco-Responsibility and will be responsible for the strategy and execution of environmental initiatives across the company, including enhancements to Sun's products in the areas of energy efficiency, cooling technologies, product recycling and clean manufacturing; continued improvements in Sun's day-to-day operations; and management of Sun's asset sharing through programs, donations and access to Sun Grid resources.
The 22nd Annual Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Awards Program, held May 2, honored four female executives from Sun with a YWCA in Silicon Valley TWIN Award in recognition of their attainment of and excellence in executive level positions and top leadership.
Sun will be hosting its first Horizons conference since it acquired SeeBeyond in June 2005. The Horizons 2006 Summit will be held in San Francisco, on May 16-18, 2006, as an adjunct to the 2006 JavaOne Conference. The event is aimed at systems architects and business executives interested in leveraging their existing systems and building new IT projects.
This year's tax season is a month behind taxpayers and many give credit to TurboTax Online for successfully seeing them through the tax preparation process. Intuit's TurboTax Online relied on Sun to power the online tax preparation service and meet the increasing demand for its use.
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:
99.1: Updates Announced for Solaris OS
98.4: Two New SPARC Processors in the Works
98.3: Virtualize Applications and Desktops with Sun Secure Global Desktop Software
Sun and SAP have collaborated to create the Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions that provides end-to-end provisioning and management of SAP applications across virtualized heterogeneous environments, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). This new software solution enables enterprise companies with large IT environments to consolidate and virtualize their SAP application landscape.
Ricoh Corporation's Embedded Software Architecture Software Development Kit/J (SDK/J) will be supported in the next release of NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC. Ricoh switched its preferred developer tool from Eclipse to standardize on NetBeans software. The NetBeans/Ricoh solution is expected to be presented during NetBeans Software Day in San Francisco on May 15, 2006.
Update 1 to the Sun Java Studio Creator IDE changes the bundled application server from Sun Java Application Server 8.1 to 8.2, upgrades the bundled database from PointBase to the open source Java Database 2 (Derby), and includes all previous hot fixes.
InfoWorld Test Center offers a brief review of the Sun Java System Identity Manager 6.0, stating version 6.0 is easier to implement. Other new features include new resource adapters for Blackberry, SuSE and Sun Java Enterprise System Messaging and Calendar Service, SuSE 9.0 support, support for digitally assigned approvals and a new look and feel.
Bundling the three components in the Sun Java System Communications Suite sets Sun apart from Microsoft and IBM, according to Michael Caton in his eWeek review of the Sun Java System Collaboration Suite. The suite provides email, calendaring and instant messaging. Also a plus is the low per-user cost of the Sun products.
Sun is thrilled to announce that the Open Document Format (ODF) has been
approved as an international standard. On May 2nd, both ISO and IEC
reported their approval of ODF with an overwhelming response and no
negative votes from any nation. ODF is now also known as the ISO/IEC
26300 standard.
Join dozens of other companies, trade associations, libraries and open access advocacy groups in the OpenDocument Alliance and help spread the word to your local, state or federal government.
OpenSPARC T1 1.0.1 is available for download, and membership with observer status is now open for all who wish to apply. This source code is being made available in the expectation that ideas around the multi-thread concepts can be explored more freely and openly, and that truly beneficial innovations can be achieved.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has approved the OASIS OpenDocument or ODF to be used as the format for office documents. Announced on May 1, 2006, the ISO approval marks the first time in the history of computing that software users will be guaranteed compatibility of their data in any compliant software package.
Even in the face of continuing (and mounting) opposition from Microsoft, support continues to grow for the OpenDocument Format (ODF), Peter Galli reports. Just in the past month, he writes in eWeek, membership has quadrupled to 138 members worldwide.
The Blastwave.org Web site is hosting a step-by-step guide on "How to Build OpenSolaris". Outlined in an easy to follow model, the article builds an open source version of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) that has 20,862 source files with a total of 18,254,702 lines of code.
Seema Alevoor provides a how-to guide to the installation of Roller Weblogger 2.0 and 2.1.1, along with MySQL 4.x, on Sun Java Web Server 6.1 SP in the Sun Developer Network article "Installing Open Source Roller Weblogger." The author includes abundant examples of code and numerous screen shots.
A "service-oriented identity standard" was demonstrated by Nokia and Sun in a recent teleconference, reports Rich Seeley for SearchWebServices.com. This device-independent, client-side tool uses the Liberty Enhanced Client Profile (LECP), which is the Liberty Alliance's version of the ECP spec in the OASIS standard Security Assertion markup Language (SAML), Seeley writes.
To help Iraqi engineers and scientists access key information necessary to the Iraq rebuilding effort, a new web portal has been developed by scientists, government agencies and help from Sun. The portal, the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), provides scientists with access to more than 1 million articles from 17,000 journal titles from leading scientific publishers.
Get special education pricing a Sun Ultra 45 workstations. These enterprise class workstations are well suited for CAD, EDA, imaging, exploration and visualization. They come with a complete set of pre-installed tools: Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun Java Studio, Sun Java Studio Enterprise and NetBeans IDE -- that's a value of almost US$5,000 in development tools alone!
High praise for Sun's Data Management Group (DMG) came from the director of Enterprise Operations and Systems at the University of Texas at Arlington when Sun moved the university's data center in 24 hours, problem free. The new data center includes Sun StorageTek libraries, tape drives and disk arrays, and Sun StorEdge Open SAN (Storage Area Network) Architecture.
OpenSolaris is now part of the Google Summer of Code program, enabling students to participate in the Sun sponsored open source community on the opensolaris.org site, which offers a project overview and roadmap, discussion forums and resources for downloading the source, BFU archives and tools.
Sun opened its first academic lab at the King Hussein Foundation's Jubilee School in Jordan, reported strategiy.com. The Sun Academy at the Jubilee School is the first below the higher educational level. More Sun labs will follow in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries.
Sun Microsystems India will begin the Sun Matching Grant Program, according to a report on CRN-india.com. The program provides equipment to educational institutions that match the funds. Sun offered this program in India previously and it was successfully used by 45 educational institutions, CRN noted.
The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 specification was unanimously approved by the Java Community Process (JCP) Java EE/SE Executive Committee, Sun announced this month. This latest update of the programming model is the most significant made to the enterprise Java development platform since the launch of J2EE 1.2 in December 1999.
The 2006 JavaOne Conference is in full swing this week, running May 16-19 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Some of the highlights include the 2006 device of the show, a tie-in to "Bike to Work Week" and this year's After Dark party.
Version 2.2.2 of the Java Card platform specification and Java Card development kit is available. New features include improved interoperability for cards with multiple communication interfaces, richer cryptography and security features and biometry support for smart card chip manufacturers, smart card vendors and Java Card platform implementation providers to embed into their products.
It has been five years since Sun launched Project JXTA, a next-generation network computing project that enables easy access to peers and resources on the emerging multidimensional expanded web, along with jxta.org, an open-source project in which developers collaborate to evolve Project JXTA. Stephanie Kaul and Mohamed AbdelAziz reflect on JXTA technology's fifth year in a Sun Developer Network article.
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