sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest December 1993 SunFLASH Vol 60 #00 December 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.00 The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest December 1993 This article contains information about the Florida SunFlash mailing list and a brief summary of each of the articles posted during December, 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.00.A December's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 60.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 60.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 60.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 60.00.E SunFlash Aliases - how mail aliases are used to distribute SunFlash. Local exploder aliases 60.00.F December's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary - abstract of each article This monthy digest article and the article by article abstracts are designed to help you quickly scan the large amount of information that I post to SunFlash. John J. McLaughlin Systems Engineer & SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, FL December 2, 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 60.00.A December's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.01 SunConnect Introduces Cooperative Management Products 60.02 SunConnect and NetLabs Announce Cooperative Management Agreement 60.03 SBus Quad Ethernet Controller 60.04 SunIntegration Services Intros Rightsizing Products 60.05 Sun Top Company in Standards, According to ANSI 60.06 Sun User Group - Basic Information 60.07 New SPARCclassic Configurations and Upgrades 60.08 Access Graphics to Configure Sun Servers 60.09 Third Party Announcements 60.09.A Checkpoint - knowledge-based software management tool 60.09.B Configuration Management /Problem Tracking tool - Razor 60.09.C Excel Accesses Sun Programs and Databases 60.09.D Hughes NetLOCK - Software to Secure Network Communications 60.10 Sun & Oracle Announce Industry-leading TPC-A 60.11 SPARCclassic X X-TERMINAL PRICE REDUCTION 60.12 Aggressive New Prices On Mass Storage Options, SunCD Pack 60.13 REPRICE MEMORY X-OPTIONS, SPARCSTATION 10 MEMORY SAME $/MB 60.14 November 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) 60.14.A STB Editor's Introduction 60.14.B November 1993 STB Contents 60.15 New SUG CD for Solaris 2.X 60.16 Sunergy Satellite Braodcast: 'Global Information Infrastructures' 60.17 Third Party Products Announcements 60.17.A RTV Toolkit from Parallax Graphics 60.17.B Tom Sawyer's Graph Layout Toolkit - Release 1.09 generally available 60.17.C Portable Graphics shipping X11 version of its NPGL library 60.17.D Aurora Introduces Socrates OCR With New Productivity Tools 60.17.E SPRY's Internet Add-ons for PC-NFS 60.18 Third Party Products Announcements 60.18.A Terminal Emulator Family announced by workstation ag 60.18.B Qualix offers Watchdog FMS, High-Availability for UNIX 60.18.C ICL announces GRAPHICSPOWER/builder - Graphics Development kit 60.18.D ACCENT STP OPEN LOOK to COSE Migration Center 60.18.E ACCENT GraphicVUE Project Management System on SPARC 49.00 January 1993 Table Of Contents 50.00 February 1993 Table Of Contents 51.00 March 1993 Table Of Contents 52.00 April 1993 Table Of Contents 53.00 May 1993 Table Of Contents 54.00 June 1993 Table Of Contents 55.00 July 1993 Table Of Contents 56.00 August 1993 Table Of Contents 57.00 September 1993 Table Of Contents 58.00 October 1993 Table Of Contents 59.00 November 1993 Table Of Contents 60.00 December 1993 Table Of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 60.00.B Information About SunFlash An automatic email reply that describes SunFlash in great detail can be obtained by sending mail to sunflash-info@sun.com (or info-sunflash@sun.com). Included in this reply will be: o An article that describes SunFlash o A list of SunFlash distributors by Geography o A recent SunFlash table of contents article (such as this one) o One line titles for some of the most recent articles Requests to be added should be directed to your local Sun office or sunflash-request@sun.com. Please feel free to pass this information on to other Sun users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 60.00.C SunFlash Archives I archive SunFlash onto a number of ftp servers. Each volume (or month) is stored as a compressed tar file. When uncompress and un-tar-ed, a directory of the form xx.mmm (e.g. 49.jan) is created with files, one per article (e.g. 49.01.ppp). For each month, I produce a "table of contents" article, such as this one. It is called xx.00.toc. The toc article is also called the Monthly Digest. To help you decide which volumes you might be interested in, I have placed a copy of the xx.00.toc files with the xx.tar.Z files for each volume xx. Size Directory/Filename 27886 52.00.toc 172347 52.apr.tar.Z 31382 53.00.toc 265474 53.may.tar.Z 24356 54.00.toc 219441 54.jun.tar.Z 26223 55.00.toc 203079 55.jul.tar.Z 28545 56.00.toc 166016 56.aug.tar.Z 36350 57.00.toc 216427 57.sep.tar.Z 29692 58.00.toc 162177 58.oct.tar.Z 37519 59.00.toc 217163 59.nov.tar.Z 22753 60.00.toc 102683 60.dec.tar.Z SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations ------------------------------------ ftp server Directory name newstop.ebay.sun.com sun/sunflash (Sun access only) sunsite.unc.edu pub/sun-info/sunflash draco.nova.edu pub/sunflash src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash ftp.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash * NOTE * solar.nova.edu - the main archive - has been renamed draco.nova.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 60.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email You may obtain back issues by sending the volume and part number to flashadm@sun.com. Place the vol.part in the subject line. e.g. $ mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 53.06 53.07 53.04 ^D $ Notes: - more that 1 vol.part allowed in subject line - for multi-article messages (such as 53.04 which has 9 articles), you will get the whole message. - body of message is empty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 60.00.E SunFlash Aliases To distribute the administration of the mailing list and to keep network traffic as low as possible, I encourage each site to create its own sunflash alias (also know as exploder aliases). The standard names for the aliases are: sunflash: owner-sunflash: (** must include full domainname **) If you are forwarding SunFlash to multiple people at another site, please encourage them to create aliases similar to the ones above. At the start of each SunFlash message you should find a couple of lines that show the name of the alias that I am actually posting to and the email address of the administrator who can make changes to that alias. (Note: some mail-relaying and mail-to-newsgroup programs remove these lines.) sunflash-Distributed to mailing list ALIAS_NAME sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to ALIAS_ADMIN_NAME Please direct requests to be deleted, changed etc. to the address listed after the "sunflash-Send" header line in your mail. DO not send mail to the whole mailing list as listed in the sunflash-Distributed line. You could be sending your message to many thousands of people, dozens of whom will send you email saying "Don't send messages like that to the whole mailing list"! I have recently reorganised many of the sub mailing lists that I use. You many notice changes to the names of the aliases in the sunflash-Distributed line. e.g. a sunflash-Distributed line might now have USA/TX/foobar.com As I obtain permission, the "From:" line in the mail header will be changed to the owner name listed in the sunflash-Send line. This will cause all errors and replies to go to that email address instead of mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 60.00.F November's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.01 SunConnect Introduces Cooperative Management Products Allows Customers To Integrate Multi-Vendor Products: Manage Any Resource From Any Location. Product Line Includes: Advanced Management Platform, Synchronized Data Repository And SQL Reporting (193 lines) 60.02 SunConnect and NetLabs Announce Cooperative Management Agreement Vendors To Support Common Information Model SunConnect To License NetLabs Technology Industry's first open, cooperating network management platforms which share a common information model. (146 lines) 60.03 SBus Quad Ethernet Controller o SMCC delivers low-cost multi-port Ethernet card o The SBus Quad Ethernet Controller (SQEC) provides four fully buffered Ethernet ports o The Ethernet channels operate independently at 10 Mbps o The SQEC meet the needs of customers who wish to divide their network into multiple Ethernet segment for better performance (173 lines) 60.04 SunIntegration Services Intros Rightsizing Products Based upon tools developed to assist Sun Microsystems in its own migration to client-server computing: Distributed Administration of Network Software Sun Remote Application Interface Sun Paperless Reporter Sun ConsoleServer Sun DataCenter Scripts (152 lines) 60.05 Sun Top Company in Standards, According to ANSI A study sponsored by ANSI of more than 100 major U.S. companies has found Sun to be one of America's top four industrial corporations that uses standardization for strategic advantage. (124 lines) 60.06 Sun User Group - Basic Information The Sun User Group, Inc., is an international, not-for-profit, technical and professional association. Our members are users, developers, programmers, manufacturers, and resellers of hardware and software either produced or licensed by Sun Microsystems, or which expands or enhances the capabilities of such equipment. This article contains membership information and an application. (339 lines) 60.07 New SPARCclassic Configurations and Upgrades Price reductions on all SPARCclassic configurations Larger discounts on high end monitors 424-MB disk to 535-MB disk transition for SPARCclassic systems Higher capacity, better performance and lower price than the 424-MB disk option New upgrades with 535-MB disk for SPARCclassic systems Removal from the price list of some SPARCclassic configurations (272 lines) 60.08 Access Graphics to Configure Sun Servers Access Graphics, a master reseller for SMCC, will configure Sun servers using a configure-to-order process through its new Integration Center in Menlo Park, California. The new arrangement enables value-added resellers (VARs) to provide increased availability of SMCC's servers to their customers. (130 lines) 60.09 Third Party Announcements (4 articles, 478 lines total ) 60.09.A Checkpoint - knowledge-based software management tool Checkpoint is an expandable knowledge-based system for software management that has been proven to positively impact software estimates, quality, and development productivity (26 lines) 60.09.B Configuration Management /Problem Tracking tool - Razor Razor is an integrated tool suite which addresses the related topics of problem tracking and configuration management, and at the extremely aggressive price of $349/floating license. Razor is now available from the Qualix Group. (106 lines) 60.09.C Excel Accesses Sun Programs and Databases I-Kinetics, Inc. today introduced I-Bridge, a family of software products that allows Windows applications to directly access databases, programs, and files on UNIX servers. The initial release of I-Bridge includes adapters for Excel, as well as Ingres, Oracle and Sybase SQL Server databases. (210 lines) 60.09.D Hughes NetLOCK - Software to Secure Network Communications Hughes NetLOCK is a software-based security product that ensures the privacy of computer data communications traveling across local and wide area networks. (88 lines) 60.10 Sun & Oracle Announce Industry-leading TPC-A The SPARCcenter 2000 data center server running Oracle7 achieved raw performance throughput greater than any other UNIX system running in a non-clustered configuration. The SPARCcenter delivered 734.10 transactions per second and $5,346 per tpsA, using a configuration that included 10 SuperSPARC processors. (130 lines) 60.11 SPARCclassic X X-TERMINAL PRICE REDUCTION - Substantial price reductions on ALL SPARCclassic X X-terminal configurations - New 8-MB SPARCclassic X configurations 15-in. Color monitor 20-in. Grayscale monitor - New 4-MB expansion memory X option - SPARCclassic X configurations will be removed from price list 16-in. Mid-range color, 4-MB 20-in. Grayscale, 4-MB (191 lines) 60.12 Aggressive New Prices On Mass Storage Options, SunCD Pack - Up to 9% list price reduction on 535-MB 3.5-in. disk options - Up to 15% list price reduction on 1.05-GB 3.5-in. disk options - Up to 13% list price reduction on 2.1-GB 5.25-in. disk options - The Desktop SunCD Pack x-option is being replaced by the Desktop SunCD Plus Pack (225 lines) 60.13 REPRICE MEMORY X-OPTIONS, SPARCSTATION 10 MEMORY SAME $/MB SMCC reprices 14 DRAM memory x-options, X116F & X164F same $/MB - Price of one X164F, 64-MB SIMM = four X116F, 16-MB SIMMs for SPARCstation 10 systems - Industry FIRST, same $/MB for 16-Mbit and 4-Mbit DSIMMs - List price for ALL DSIMM memory is now under US$100/MB - 18.5% to 26.7% price decreases on 16-Mbit-based x-options - 3.4% to 12.8% price increases on 4-Mbit-based x-options - New X104R, 4-MB expansion memory for SPARCclassic X, SPARCclassic and SPARCstation LX systems (234 lines) 60.14 November 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) The STB "Table of Contents" and "Editor's Introduction" are posted to SunFlash so that customers who have a support contract are made aware of the contents of this execellent publication. (2 articles, 232 lines) 60.14.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 60.14.B November 1993 STB Contents 60.15 New SUG CD for Solaris 2.X SUG is pleased to announce its first software library that is completely Solaris 2.2 compatible. Like all of the previous disks in our award-winning line of software libraries, the 1994 SUG CD emphasizes information sources (archives of useful textual information) and includes plug-and-play SPARC binaries for many useful libraries and programs. As in all previous years, wherever possible sources and help-files are also provided. (Order form included. Do not email Credit Card numbers! -johnj) (254 lines) 60.16 Sunergy Satellite Braodcast: 'Global Information Infrastructures' In the last Sunergy broadcast the topic of the Internet was discussed. During that program we took a look at some of the ways that the Internet acts as both supplier and retriever of information, internationally. We also discussed US government policy and security issues. (The Sun Ft. Lauderdale office has its own satellite dish, so we will be hosting this event in our office. 11:30 am to 1:00 pm EST-johnj) Tuesday January 11, 1994 8:30 - 10:00 am (NOTE --> PST <----) (179 lines) 60.17 Third Party Products Announcements (5 articles, 576 lines total) 60.17.A RTV Toolkit from Parallax Graphics New, high-performance software for integrated audio and video substantially expands the capabilities of video-enabled workstations. Parallax's RTV Toolkit can store and playback digital video at 30 frames per second, in full size (640x480 pixels), with 24-bit true color. The integrated audio presents CD quality sound to accompany this high-quality image. (100 lines) 60.17.B Tom Sawyer's Graph Layout Toolkit - Release 1.09 generally available family of portable libraries delivers an immediate face-lift to graphics applications with their sophisticated layout algorithms. The Graph Layout Toolkit libraries' logical representation of objects and connections allow end users to more easily see underlying relationships within complicated data. The libraries also work in real time, rarely requiring more than a few seconds to produce quality output even for large graphs with several hundred nodes. (157 lines) 60.17.C Portable Graphics shipping X11 version of its NPGL library Portable Graphics, Inc. is now shipping an X11 version of its NPGL library. Using Xlib, NPGL-X allows software originally developed for Silicon Graphics workstations with the IRIS GL 4.0 library to use SPARCstation systems as X clients. Anyone with a color X11 server can then access NPGL-X applications remotely across the network. Neither the client nor the server requires special graphics acceleration hardware. (68 lines) 60.17.D Aurora Introduces Socrates OCR With New Productivity Tools Aurora Technologies introduced new workgroup-oriented features to its Socrates OCR for SPARC systems software. The new release adds command-line operation, providing network-wide access to complete OCR functionality from any terminal, PC, or workstation on a SPARC-based network. The upgrade also includes batch-processing capabilities for unattended document scanning and recognition, saving hours of time processing long or multiple documents. (62 lines) 60.17.E SPRY's Internet Add-ons for PC-NFS To meet the needs of the rapidly growing number of PC-NFS users looking to reach resources on the Internet, SPRY, Incorporated is shipping the AIR Navigator*, a suite of easy-to-use Internet access applications. AIR Navigator includes AIR News, AIR Gopher and AIR Mail. AIR News is an Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) news reader AIR Gopher ithe first commercially supported Windows Gopher client AIR Mail is an easy-to-use Windows implementation of Internet mail (95 lines) 60.18 Third Party Products Announcements (5 articles, 650 lines total) 60.18.A Terminal Emulator Family announced by workstation ag a family of terminal emulators for SUN workstations: - WE-UTS: UNISYS terminal emulator (U100, U200, UTS400, UTS30, UTS40) - WE-D320: DEC terminal emulator (VT100, VT200, VT320) - WE-I3179: IBM 3270 terminal emulator (137 lines) 60.18.B Qualix offers Watchdog FMS, High-Availability for UNIX Watchdog FMS is a software product designed to protect your critical information services by providing monitor, restart, and failover capabilities to a pair of UNIX-based servers. (189 lines) 60.18.C ICL announces GRAPHICSPOWER/builder - Graphics Development kit ICL's graphical object library now comes complete with an advanced interactive building tool. With GRAPHICSPOWER/builder developers can rapidly prototype graphical interfaces, then automatically generate code for that interface. (115 lines) 60.18.D ACCENT STP OPEN LOOK to COSE Migration Center National Information Systems, Inc. (NIS), of San Jose, California, announced the opening of the OPEN LOOK to Motif Migration Center. The Motif Migration Center is a joint venture of NIS and Kovi Design Automation seeking to assist developers of OPEN LOOK applications in the preparation of applications to support the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a technology of the Common Open Software Environment (COSE). (47 lines) 60.18.E ACCENT GraphicVUE Project Management System on SPARC National Information Systems announced the availability of the ACCENT GraphicVUE Project Management System, version 1.50. Version 1.50 introduces many new user-requested features to its popular graphical interface. NIS is a leading developer of project management, software development, and groupware tools for UNIX networks. (79 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 60.00 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. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909