Monthly SunFlash - January, 1995
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Contents:
73.01: Sun's Hottest Newsletter
73.02: Sun, Thomson launch Open TV Interactive Multimedia Environment
73.03: Sun, Thomson Alliance Gets Down To Business
73.04: Sun Microsystems Announces Executive Transition
73.05: AG Communication Systems to Buy SPARC/Solaris Systems
73.06: Book: Designing Visual Interfaces
73.07: Book: Sun Performance and Tuning: SPARC and Solaris
73.08: Anne Schowe Named VP/GM of Interactive Services
73.09: Sun Microsystems Reports All Time Record Revenues
73.10: Sunergy Broadcast UPDATE (January 24th)
73.11: SunExpress to Market CraySoft's NQE
73.12: Sun used for NFL Internet Merchandise Catalog
73.13: Sun Includes Lotus Notes With Servers
73.14: SunSoft Expands Solarnet Family
73.15: McHugh Freeman to port Distribution Manager to Solaris
73.16: Allied Group, Sun Partner to Create Networked Multimedia Kiosks
73.17: Burlington Coat Factory Internet "Home Page"
73.18: Dallas Systems to offer Warehouse System on Solaris
73.19: Sun Microsystems to Support India Gateway Project
73.20: Sun Microsystems Expands Worldwide Organization
73.21: VISA Uses Sun Client/Server to Expand Banking Services
73.22: Sun Launches Solstice
73.23: Sun Ships Solstice Product Family
73.24: Industry Leaders Back Sun's Solstice For Enterprise Management
73.25: Motorola's Network Management System based on Solstice
9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information
9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index
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73.01: Sun's Hottest Newsletter
This a quaterly newsletter from Sun Microsystems. We welcome your
comments and suggestions. Please send electronic mail to
comm...@goldenbear.Corp.Sun.COM.
o The world's first enterprise UNIX video server
o News flash: Sun and the Internet
o New interactive, on-line annual report
o Sun sponsors Russian hockey all stars
o Partnership with Netscape
o Solaris 2.4 - Sun's best Solaris release
o A+Edition(tm) boosts Solaris performance for high-end
commercial server customers
o Wabi 2.0 expands Microsoft Windows applications for UNIX
o Online: DiskSuite 3.0 - SunSoft's commercial-grade volume
management for Solaris 2.4
o SunSoft's FireWall-1: powerful Internet security made easy
o HyperSPARC boosts performance of technical applications
o Broadcast from your desktop with ShowMe TV
o SolarNet: state-of-the-art networking for PC environments
o Sun and Oracle team up to provide quality products and service
o Sun's financial trading room leadership expands worldwide
o New and improved SunSoft WorkShop product suite
o Sun Microsystems scores big at 1994 World Cup
o In Short (ISDN, Cooperative Consoles, 14-GB 8mm tape, Lotus
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73.02: Sun, Thomson launch Open TV Interactive Multimedia Environment
Open TV(TM), an operating environment for interactive television, was
introduced by the alliance between Sun Microsystems, Inc. and
Thomson Consumer Electronics SA. This is the first product from the
alliance, presenting a platform-independent solution for delivering
interactive services to consumers. Demonstrated today at the Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) were samples of applications the alliance
expects will be built by developers using Open TV technology,
including ticket channel, interactive advertising and video-on-demand.
The Open TV environment allows cable, telco, satellite, and
other broadcast network operators and content providers to
download interactive applications to set-top decoders through
existing networks. The applications then use the return path of
the set-top box to provide full interactive transactional
capabilities.
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73.03: Sun, Thomson Alliance Gets Down To Business
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun) and Thomson Consumer Electronics
(TCE) publicly unveiled the first results of their new alliance.
The two companies used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas to announce a jointly designed digital interactive TV
system, from server to decoder. It is the first working system
based on commercially available products and technologies to be
offered to network operators and content providers.
The system on display in Las Vegas was developed by Sun and
TCE's team, which was formed following the July, 1994
announcement of their alliance. A formal agreement between the
two companies was signed last month. In less than six months,
the joint team has succeeded in developing an operational
system, with servers delivering a stream of interactive digital
MPEG2 compressed video signals and data to consumer set-top
receivers. With this achievement, Sun and TCE demonstrated in
concrete terms their mutual commitment to build and market
end-to-end solutions for the interactive multimedia services
marketplace.
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73.04: Sun Microsystems Announces Executive Transition
J.Phillip Samper to Change Role
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SMI) announced that J. Phillip Samper,
president of Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) has chosen
to step down from his current position at the end of February.
At that time, he will assume a consulting and advisory role for
SMI. He will remain in his current position through February, to
assist in the transition to a successor. The process for
identifying a successor has been initiated.
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73.05: AG Communication Systems to Buy SPARC/Solaris Systems
Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) reported that it has
won a large software development contract, valued at approximately
$4.8 million, from AG Communication Systems, a developer of
advanced telecommunications products. The company has agreed to
purchase approximately 500 Sun(R) systems as part of its vision of
building a heterogeneous development network to improve quality and
productivity. The company will use powerful SPARCstation(TM) 20
workstations and SPARCserver(TM) 1000 departmental servers running
the Solaris(R) operating environment for all aspects of its internal
software development business, including applications to be deployed
for intelligent network environments and other advanced
telecommunications services. "Intelligent networking" is one of the
fastest-growing areas in telecommunications for both wireless and
wireline networks.
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73.06: Book: Designing Visual Interfaces
This book describes fundamental techniques that can be used to
enhance the visual quality of graphical user interfaces, data
displays, and multimedia productions. The authors approach
interface design from the perspective of communication-oriented
graphic design, industrial design, and architecture. The skills,
practice, and orientation of these design disciplines are
essential to the success of every graphical interface, yet few
software developers, human factors professionals, or product
managers receive any training in these areas. DESIGNING VISUAL
INTERFACES addresses this shortcoming by describing essential
design concepts as manifested in the graphical user interface.
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73.07: Book: Sun Performance and Tuning: SPARC and Solaris
This book is written for the system administrator, systems
integrator or software developer interested in performance and
tuning on Sun workstations running the Solaris environment. It
contains performance and configuration information on all SPARC
machines and peripherals and on all operating system releases
from SunOS 4.1 through Solaris 2.4.
SUN PERFORMANCE AND TUNING is based upon customer inquiries for
hard-to-find tuning information. The descriptions of how to
understand and use the information given by system monitoring
tools provides an insight that cannot be found elsewhere. The
book is intended to be read sequentially, covering the most
significant and most common performance problems first.
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73.08: Anne Schowe Named VP/GM of Interactive Services
Anne Schowe has been named vice president and general manager of the
interactive services business at Sun Microsystems Computer Company
(SMCC). She was formerly the managing director of the visual
solutions business unit of AT&T's Microelectronics Group.
In her new role, Schowe has responsibility for driving Sun into
the emerging world of interactive communications, both in the
enterprise as well as consumer markets. In her 20-year career in
the computer industry, her responsibilities have included all
phases of development, product planning and marketing for
computer systems and components. Prior to this position, she
held a variety of management positions with AT&T
Microelectronics, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Control Data
Corporation.
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73.09: Sun Microsystems Reports All Time Record Revenues
Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) today reported second
quarter revenues of $1,475 million, up more than 30 percent from
the $1,130 million reported for the corresponding period of
fiscal 1994. Net income for the second quarter was $81.6
million, compared with $43.8 million of the year-ago quarter, an
increase of 86 percent. Earnings per share was $0.83, compared
with $0.46 per share for the same period a year ago, an increase
of over 80 percent.
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73.10: Sunergy Broadcast UPDATE (January 24th)
SUNERGY LIVE, INTERACTIVE, SATELLITE BROADCAST
Live from ComNet '95 in Washington DC
Sunergy #12
January 24, 1995
11:30 am - 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
In a continuation of Sunergy's "Roadmap to the Information
Superhighway" series*, Sunergy presents...
"WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: EQUALITY AND ACCESS
ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY"
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73.11: SunExpress to Market CraySoft's NQE
SunExpress, Inc., the aftermarket company of Sun Microsystems,
Inc., and CraySoft, a unit of Cray Research, Inc., announced a
marketing and distribution agreement that will make SunExpress
the first major worldwide distributor of CraySoft's Network
Queuing Environment (NQE) software. This agreement will
significantly broaden CraySoft's reach into Sun's installed
base.
SunExpress will offer NQE, a sophisticated batch processing and
automatic load balancing program developed by Cray Research and
widely used in UNIX networks. The system automatically
distributes a job to the most appropriate resource on a network,
whether that is a single workstation, a workstation cluster, a
server or a Cray Research supercomputer. Users can submit a job
to any one network resource or combination of resources to
complete the job most quickly.They do not need to know what
resource is being used. NQE software manages file transfers, job
queuing and load balancing on the network transparently.
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73.12: Sun used for NFL Internet Merchandise Catalog
Sports fans on the Internet can now do one-stop shopping for
both online sports information and official National Football
League merchandise. In its display at the Sun Microsystems
exhibit at the National Retail Federation (NRF) `95 convention,
Quest Technologies Inc. showed how it is using Sun(TM) servers
to give this information to users via the Internet World Wide
Web for the first time. Quest, a New York interactive services
company, is also using this tech-nology to give users quick
access to other sports "home pages" available on the Web.
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73.13: Sun Includes Lotus Notes With Servers
Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) has begun including
Lotus Notes(TM) at no charge with a wide range of SPARC(R)
servers, the company announced. Sun is showcasing Notes and
Sun(TM) network computing technology this week at Lotusphere
`95, the annual Lotus worldwide technology business conference.
The de facto standard for collaborative workgroup computing,
Notes is an ideal application for Sun's best-selling line of
enterprise network servers, which deliver high performance at a
low cost.
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73.14: SunSoft Expands Solarnet Family
SunSoft, Inc., a leading provider of PC-to-enterprise networking
software, extended the SolarNet(TM) family to include
NetWare(R)-compatible file and print services called SolarNet PC
Server Services. This product is a scalable software solution
that integrates Solaris(R), the leading UNIX(R) environment, and
NetWare, the leading PC LAN environment allowing Novell NetWare
users to transparently access and share Solaris-based
applications, file and print capabilities, and allows access to
Internet services. SolarNet PC Server Services together with
other members of the SolarNet family deliver the most
comprehensive PC-to-enterprise connectivity, integration and
administration solutions in the industry.
Note that this is a SunSoft announcement. An SMCC announcement
will follow.
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73.15: McHugh Freeman to port Distribution Manager to Solaris
McHugh, Freeman & Associates, Inc. will port its popular Distribution
Manager warehouse management system to the Solaris operating
environment, Sun Microsystems' industry-leading version of the UNIX
operating system. The announcement was made at NRF `95.
Distribution Manager, already deployed at many distribution
centers and warehouses across the United States, is a modular
set of applications that manages inventory, warehouse space and
labor resources.
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73.16: Allied Group, Sun Partner to Create Networked Multimedia Kiosks
The Allied Group, a developer of advanced multimedia consumer
kiosks, has partnered with Sun Microsystems to incorporate Sun's
high-powered workstation and communications technology into its next
generation of consumer-friendly kiosks. The company showcased its
innovative multimedia applications at the Sun exhibit at NRF '95.
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73.17: Burlington Coat Factory Internet "Home Page"
With the information highway beckoning, innovative retailers
like Burlington Coat Factory are taking the leap beyond the four
walls of the traditional retail store. Using powerful but
easy-to-use computers from Sun Microsystems Computer Company
(SMCC), Burlington Coat Factory has not only created a "home
page" on the Internet's graphics-rich World Wide Web, but it
hopes to turn a profit from its electronic marketing effort this
year.
Burlington Coat Factory URL: http://www.coat.com/
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73.18: Dallas Systems to offer Warehouse System on Solaris
Dallas Systems Corporation, a specialist in logistics software and
consulting services, will port its warehouse management software,
called The Dallas System, to the Solaris(TM) operating environment,
Sun Microsystems' industry-leading version of the UNIX(R) operating
system. Sun itself will be the first customer of the new system. The
announcement was made at NRF `95.
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73.19: Sun Microsystems to Support India Gateway Project
Sun Microsystems, Inc. is supporting the India-U.S. Gateway
Project, a cooperative venture among leading U.S. technology
companies and premier Indian industry associations to develop a
site on the Internet's World Wide Web information system for
India's rapidly growing business community. Sun will be donating
its Netra (TM) Internet Server, the industry's first integrated,
single-vendor, business-ready PC server solution that offers
easy Internet access.
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73.20: Sun Microsystems Expands Worldwide Organization
Due to an increased demand for its advanced network computing
technology, Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) recently
announced that it had opened five additional regional offices in 1994.
The new offices are located in:
o Shanghai, the People's Republic of China
o Guangzhou, the People's Republic of China
o Prague, Czech Republic
o Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
o Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sun now has offices in 31 countries around the world.
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73.21: VISA Uses Sun Client/Server to Expand Banking Services
VISA is using Sun(R) technology to expand its transaction
processing systems for innovative remote-access banking
services. These services will be among those provided by its new
VISA Interactive subsidiary. The network of SPARC(R)
workstations and servers from Sun Microsystems Computer Company
(SMCC) is currently the sole technology platform used across the
company, supporting the rapid expansion plans of the entire VISA
Interactive subsidiary. It is the first large-scale transaction
processing operation at VISA that will use Sun's UNIX(R)
client/server technology, highlighting the key role played by a
flexible, cost-effective distributed computing architecture that
can be scaled to match rapid business growth.
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73.22: Sun Launches Solstice
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the industry's first fully
integrated solution to harness the management complexity of
distributed computing. Called Solstice, the new software
offering delivers the industry's first set of products to scale
and manage large heterogeneous networks, such as those in
telecommunications and financial services companies, utilizing
distributed computing technologies. These solutions decrease the
complexity of managing enterprise-wide networks while
significantly lowering the total cost of operation, giving
companies the flexibility of distributed computing with the
control of centralized management. In addition, Sun also
announced a Solstice partners program which features more than
150 software vendors with over 300 applications, delivering to
customers a range of solutions for their enterprise-wide
management needs.
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73.23: Sun Ships Solstice Product Family
Designed to cover all aspects of enterprise management including:
o Solstice AutoClient: industry's first solution for
high-performance centralized management of desktops,
allowing system administrators to automatically set up, update
and reinstall systems from one site and eliminating the need for
users to take on systems administration tasks themselves
o Solstice Cooperative Consoles: first offering from a leading
systems vendor to tie together management consoles in different
departments, empowering teams of MIS managers to see,
measure and manage enterprise- wide networks anytime and
anywhere
o Solstice Enterprise Manager: first standards-based,
object-oriented, multiprotocol management platform to provide
scalability across global networks, lowering cost of operations
o Solstice SunNet Manager: industry's leading network
management platform now on x86
o Additional Solstice Products: cover areas of workload and asset
management, security, configuration, PC administration,
storage, backup, object administration and support services
o Sun Networks: provide Sun's consulting services to Solstice
customers
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73.24: Industry Leaders Back Sun's Solstice For Enterprise Management
Sun Microsystems, Inc. unveiled an industry partners program for
the new Solstice product family for enterprise management.
Offered by Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC), the
Solstice Solutions program has already attracted many top-tier
partners, including Amdahl, AIM, AutoSystems, BGS, BMC, Computer
Associates, Compuware, Fourth Dimension, Informix, Landmark,
Legent, OpenVision, Oracle, Remedy, SAS, Scopus, Securix, Sybase
and Tivoli. The Solstice Solutions program identifies a short
list of recommended enterprise management solutions for Sun
customers. Vendor applications are selected based on customer
input, and verified to work together as a solution. The program
is complementary with the Solstice Partners Program.
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73.25: Motorola's Network Management System based on Solstice
Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG) announced plans to
extend open systems to the management of sophisticated and rapidly
expanding wireless networks. The new Network Management System
-- based on SunSoft, Inc.'s new Solstice(tm) platform -- will be
Telecommunications Management Network(TMN)-compliant. TMN is
an International Telecommunications Union Standard.
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