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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                    Trusted Solaris Chosen by Oracle

SunFLASH Vol 64 #92					          April 1994
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64.92	Trusted Solaris Chosen by Oracle

	Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. announced that Solaris(tm) and
	Trusted Solaris(tm) were chosen as the operating systems for
	Oracle Corporation's recent European database management system
	security evaluations. Oracle7 was evaluated on Solaris 2.2
	against the European Information Technology Security Evaluation
	Criteria (ITSEC) to assurance E3 and with functionlity F-C2 in
	conjunction with an F-C2 operating system. Trusted Oracle7 was
	evaluated on Trusted Solaris (TS) against the ITSEC to
	assurance E3 and with functionality F-B1 in conjunction with an
	F-B1 operating system.

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(See also SunFlash 64.29 "Trusted Solaris 1.1")

                  TRUSTED SOLARIS Chosen IN ORACLE'S
                EUROPEAN DATABASE SECURITY EVALUATIONS

Trusted Solaris has been designed to meet U.S. Orange Book B1 criteria
and Compartmented Mode Workstation (CMW) specifications, as well as the
ITSEC E3/F-B1 level.  The latest version of Trusted Solaris (TS 1.1) is
currently being evaluated by the National Computer Security Center
(NCSC) and by Logica, a Commercial Licensed Evaluation Facility in the
United Kingdom.

Trusted Oracle and Trusted Solaris are being used by customers
worldwide to provide a full trusted computing solution that is
distributed, networked and windowed.  The Oracle/Sun alliance in secure
computing now provides evaluated security that allows customers to
choose from a number of powerful product options offered by Oracle and
Sun.

"This evaluation further underscores the commitment Oracle has made to
our customers to provide secure database products on leading secure
platforms," said Frank Bishop, vice president of Oracle's Federal
Products Division. "The strong Sun/Oracle alliance has been extended to
provide an evaluated database for customers that require the extra
security of trusted computing solutions. With Trusted Solaris, we offer
a solution that meets stringent security standards without compromising
functionality of the underlying database technology."

"Trusted Solaris is the best solution to meet B1 security needs within
the Department of Defense as well as the needs of other government
agencies and commercial enterprises," said John Marselle, President of
Sun Federal.  Oracle and Sun have been an unbeatable team in the
marketplace for secure products because together we can offer customers
evaluated security in a full distributed computing environment."

Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., the leading supplier of open network
computing solutions to the U.S. government, is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Built on Sun's legacy of "The
Network is the Computer(tm)," Sun Federal's SPARC(R)/Solaris(R)
workstation and server family leads the UNIX market. The company has
headquarters in Milpitas, Calif. and Vienna, Va.

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Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Trusted Solaris, Open
Windows, NeWSprint, DeskSet and The Network is the Computer are
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Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX system
Laboratories, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc. All other
product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their
respective owners.

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