-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SunFLASH May 1990 Table Of Contents SunFLASH Vol 17 #toc May 1990 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the May TOC for SunFlash. If there are any items that you missed and really want to see, please send email directly to me at flash@sunvice.east.Sun.COM. If the demand for back issues justifies the effort, I will install a program to service such requests automatically. -johnj PR: Press Release An 'official' Sun Press Release STB: Software Technical Bulletin A magazine for Customers who have purchased Sun Software Support TOC: Table Of Contents Of popular Sun/UNIX magazines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.01 PR: Norton Utilities For UNIX INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation announced that it will jointly promote The Norton Utilities(R) for System V with Hewlett-Packard Company and Sun Microsystems, Inc. INTERACTIVE, a Kodak(R) company and a pioneer in bringing UNIX(R) to the commercial marketplace. Well-known by DOS users, The Norton Utilities for System V is a suite of disk and file management tools that eliminates many of the complexities traditionally found in UNIX. Among its features, Norton can recover erased files and directories - a capability previously unavailable to UNIX users. In addition, The Norton Utilities for System V diagnoses hard-disk problems without damaging "live" data and makes it much easier to manage files. 17.02 Obtaining an Internet Address Obtaining an Internet Address from NIC Domain Registrar 17.03 PR: Toshiba Releases SPARC Laptop TOSHIBA UNVEILS WORLD'S FIRST RISC-BASED LAPTOP UTILIZES SUN MICROSYSTEMS' SPARC MICROPROCESSOR 17.04 New Sun Product Announcements SPARCstation SLC SPARCserver 470 SPARCserver Manager, Database Excelerator SunCD Announcement 17.05 Miscellaneous Sun Wins SUN SELECTED AS GENERAL ELECTRIC'S STRATEGIC WORKSTATION VENDOR Sun announced that General Electric Company (GE) has chosen Sun as the strategic supplier of UNIX(R)-based workstations and servers to its 13 business units, which include such organizations as NBC, Kidder, Peabody and GE Medical Systems. An open-ended agreement between the two compaines specifies purchase arrangements for Sun's SPARCstations(TM) and SPARCservers(TM) equipped with the OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical user interface. ---------------------------------------------------------------- PRODUCT INTRODUCTIONS UNDERSCORE SHIFT TO UNIX-BASED SUN WORKSTATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING Nine leading publishing system vendors are featuring new professional color publishing solutions on Sun Microsystems' SPARC(TM)-based workstations at the Drupa Exposition, April 27 through May 10. These vendors -- Agfa Compugraphic, H. Berthold, CCI Europe, Dainippon Screen, Dupont Imaging Systems, Eastman-Kodak, Gems of Cambridge, Linotype and Unda Inc. -- reflect a continuing shift away from closed, proprietary systems toward UNIX(R)-based professional publishing applications running on industry standard RISC workstations. The offerings from these vendors also define a new mid-range segment of color pre-press systems priced from $20,000 to $100,000. These mid-range products are far less expensive than proprietary solutions and offer significantly more compute power than DOS or Macintosh personal computers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- TWO FRENCH MILITARY CONTRACTORS CHOOSE SPARC Sun reported that Electronique Serge Dassault (ESD) and SAGEM, two of the major players in the French military market, have chosen the SPARC (TM) microprocessor architecture for their new generation of embedded systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------- YALE PURCHASES 200 SUN SPARCSTATIONS, 10 SERVERS Sun announced that Yale University faculty members representing eight diverse disciplines recently selected Sun Microsystems' SPARCstation(TM) as their computer standard for the 1990s. In a purchase worth $5 million, Yale is basing its science and engineering computing laboratory on the SPARC(TM) microprocessor architecture, which uses reduced instruction set computing (RISC). 17.06 Summary of Announcement (May 15) SUN'S LESS-THAN-$5,000 RISC WORKSTATION HIGHLIGHTS NEW PRODUCT OFFERINGS New Desktop and Server Products Advance Sun's Workgroup Computing Leadership Sun unveiled major additions to its family of SPARC(TM)-based workstations and servers, including the SPARCstation SLC(TM), the industry's first full-feature RISC workstation priced less than $5,000. Sun also introduced a powerful, balanced server for two environments: technical users and sites needing mid-range commercial file and database servers. A new graphics workstation version of this server performs 2-D and 3-D graphics. Along with the new hardware, Sun introduced advanced server software that gives SPARC servers enhanced capabilities and allows them to outperform competing systems costing many times more. 17.07 WINGZ on Sun Ships On April 30, Informix began shipping Wingz 1.0 for Sun SPARC, Sun3, and 386i workstations, priced at $699. Wingz 1.0 is an OPEN LOOK application, running in SunView, or binary compatibility mode in OpenWindows. Informix plans to make future versions of Wingz available in native OpenWindows. Wingz represents the state of the art in a powerful, easy to use graphical spreadsheet, and is yet another OPEN LOOK application shipping NOW. 17.08 2000 SPARC Applications Sun's Third-Party Software Program Continues Its Success Sun announced that the number of third-party products for its SPARC(TM) systems has surpassed the 2,000 mark -- a fourfold increase in the past year. This is a significantly greater software selection than that available for all other RISC/UNIX(R) workstations combined. Included in Sun's list of new third-party software are important PC-class products such as Lotus 1-2-3, WingZ from Informix, FoxBase and WordPerfect, as well as many other business and technical applications. Other leading PC software vendors like Ashton-Tate have previously announced their intention to create SPARCware(TM) products. 17.09 Interleaf Announces Slim TPS and Open Look Support INTERLEAF ANNOUNCES NEW LOW-COST, HIGH-POWER PUBLISHING SOFTWARE FOR SUN WORKSTATIONS Interleaf, Inc. announced Slim TPS Basics, a new publishing software package for Sun workstations at a promotional price of $795. Slim TPS requires less than half the disk space required by other versions of Interleaf workstation software, and is user-installable. The package comes with ease-of-use tools including an on-line demo and an Instant Expert tutorial. A free trial version is available. Slim TPS runs on the Sun 3(TM) and SPARC(TM) families of computers, including the new SPARCstation SLC(TM), and future versions will support the OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical user interface. -------------------------------------------------------------- INTERLEAF TO SUPPORT OPEN LOOK Interleaf, Inc. announced its commitment to having its publishing software run under the OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical user interface jointly designed by AT&T and Sun Microsystems. Bob Weiler, president of Interleaf, said: "We believe OPEN LOOK will become an important graphical user interface standard and we are committed to having our publishing software comply with it. OPEN LOOK provides a friendly graphical interface and powerful inter-application information-sharing. 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