sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Information/Product Abstracts & Distribution Options SunFLASH Vol 64 #7 April 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64.07 Sun Information/Product Abstracts & Distribution Options This article contains brief descriptions of several Sun announcements. The new 'Abstracts' or digest style articles, such as this one, make it possible for me to increase the number of articles that I make available without drowning everyone in email. However, for those people who want all the articles and are prepared to deal with 100+ articles a month, I have created a new distribution option: Daily (or direct) - about 1 message per day, including Abstracts type articles - monthly digest Weekly (or indirect) - 1 message per week Monthly - 1 message per month Full (or total or verbose) - all articles. 100+ per month. Often posted in groups of 4 to 10 at a time. - suitable of redistribution via local newsgroups or for local archiving I will add one of these key words into the SunFlash mail headers in the near future so that you will know which distribution you are getting. Almost everyone is in the Daily distribution. If you want to have your distribution type changed, please send mail to flash@sun.com. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space seperated article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. Please try to place the article numbers in the Subject line, not in the message body. Articles that are of the correct format will be answered quickly by a program. I will eventually answer all others. -johnj (6 articles, 50Kb, 1132 lines - about 17 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 64.01 14 361 SPARCprinter II And NeWSprint 2.2 64.02 13 314 Solaris 1.1.1 Version B 64.03 7 142 SunIntegration Services into SunService 64.04 5 98 Cray to Install Sun Systems Worth $5.5M 64.05 7 122 Entergy Chooses Sun 64.06 4 95 Solaris 2.0 and 2.1 Off Pricelist Totals: 50 1132 How To Request An Article - Example ----------------------------------- %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 ^D % Please place the list of space seperated articles numbers on the same line as the Subject keyword. -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 64.01 SPARCprinter II Printer And Unbundled NeWSprint 2.2 The SPARCprinter(TM) II printer is a follow-on printer to the original SPARCprinter. It delivers a new look and additional features that competitively position Sun's low-end monochrome workgroup printer solution. In a compact package, the SPARCprinter II delivers a reliable, affordable, and flexible printing solution to complement Sun systems. Key advantages of the SPARCprinter II versus original SPARCprinter: * Energy Star compliance * 600 dots-per inch (dpi) printing and Image Smoothing * 500 sheet feeder option * Duplex (double-sided) printing option * Parallel port support * Toner cartridge recycling program Sun is also offering the latest printing software technology for the Solaris(R) 1.x platform, NeWSprint(TM) 2.2 software. NeWSprint 2.2 includes support for SPARCprinter II and AnswerBook(TM) online documentation. With this anouncement NeWSprint 2.1 is being transitioned from the price list and is being replaced with NeWSprint 2.2. The latest revision of NeWSprint software for Solaris 2 is Newsprint 2.5. (361 lines) 64.02 English And International Solaris 1.1.1 Version B o New default 1.x release shipping at first customer ship replaces the earlier Solaris 1.1.1 release and the localized 1.1A and 1.1C releases o Supports SPARCstation 10 systems shipping in March with the SuperSPARC revision 3.5 processor o Supports all configurations supported with the earlier Solaris 1.1.1 release and is fully compatible with previous 1.x releases o English and localized Japanese, Korean, Chinese (China) and Chinese (Taiwan), European (French, German, Italian and Swedish releases) are available o All customers (with or without a software support contract) who received the earlier release of 1.1.1 will automatically receive 1.1.1 Version B (314 lines) 64.03 SunIntegration Services Incorporated into SunService SunService announced the incorporation of SunIntegration Services into its organization and the availability of six new architecture and information technology consulting services for Sun customers seeking to establish a rapid and smooth transition to a client/server architecture. The addition of SunIntegration Services and this new portfolio will help customers earlier in the rightsizing process: from planning and implementing a move to client/server, to supporting and enhancing hardware and software on the distributed network. The services are focused for customers who, having made the decision to rightsize, need to quickly take the next steps required to develop and implement a successful architecture. The new service portfolio includes: * Open Systems Diagnostics * IT Competitive Advantage * Strategic Architecture Design * Migration Planning * Rapid Prototyping * Rapid Process Re-engineering (142 lines) 64.04 Cray to Install Sun Systems Worth $5.5 Million Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that Cray Research has selected more than 760 Sun workstations and servers to upgrade its existing computing environment in a variety of departments, including software development, customer service, training and distribution. The installation features 738 SPARCstation(TM) 5 desktops, SMCC's new mid-range workstation unveiled today, and 22 SPARCserver(TM) 1000 systems, which offer industry-leading price/performance among database servers. The Sun systems are valued at $5.5 million (U.S.). (98 lines) 64.05 Entergy Chooses Sun Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that it will furnish computers to Entergy, one of the five largest electric utilities companies in the United States. Entergy has chosen Sun(R) SPARCcenter(TM) and SPARCserver(TM) systems running the Solaris(R) operating environment as the foundation to support its corporate-wide business applications, including financials, work management, and customer information systems. (122 lines) 64.06 Removal of Solaris 2.0 and 2.1 From Price List Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) is initiating the transition of Solaris(R) 2.0 and Solaris 2.1 operating environments. This includes all media, documentation, source localizations and other Solaris 2.0 or Solaris 2.1 products. Service and support will be provided according to standard Sun policy. (95 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 63.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. 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