SunFlash November 17th, 1994 ******************************* Contents: 71.25: SMCC Extends Warranty On Mass Storage Devices 71.26: SMCC 9 Gb Fast/Wide Differential SCSI-2 Drive 71.27: SMCC Extends License with PERFORMIX Software 71.28: Solaris 2.4 X86 Driver Update #3 Now Available 71.29: End Of Life - Board Upgrades to SPARCserver 6X0 71.30: End-of-Life of Certain Software Products 71.31: Upgrades to SPARCstation Voyager 71.32: Legent Selected as Sun's US Premiere Developer 71.33: STB Hires DEC Veteran as VP of Marketing 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index How to send for articles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.25: SMCC Extends Warranty On Mass Storage Devices Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) introduced one of the industry's most extensive warranty programs for mass storage systems. Beginning immediately, all disk drives with formatted capacities of 1 gigabyte and greater will carry a five-year warranty and disk drives with formatted capacity less than 1 gigabyte will be covered by a two-year warranty. In addition to the disk drive warranty, SMCC introduced a two-year warranty coverage for the company's new 14-gigabyte 8mm tape drive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.26: SMCC 9 Gb Fast/Wide Differential SCSI-2 Drive Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) introduced a new 9-gigabyte fast/wide differential SCSI (F/W DSCSI) disk drive, offering a low-cost mass storage solution for SMCC SPARCserver(TM) customers. In addition, the drives are covered by SMCC's new five-year warranty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.27: SMCC Extends License with PERFORMIX Software Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) and PERFORMIX, Inc. announced that SMCC would expand its use of PERFORMIX's load testing software products, EMPOWER and EMPOWER/X, which analyze the behavior of distributed applications. Under the agreement, SMCC will use the software in a variety of areas, including system capacity planning and configuration design, marketingsupport and education programs. SMCC currently uses PERFORMIX's software for standard multiuser benchmark analysis of Sun(R) server products such as the SPARCserver(TM) 1000E, SPARCcenter(TM) 2000E and SPARCserver(TM) PDB(TM) systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.28: Solaris 2.4 X86 Driver Update #3 Now Available The Solaris 2.4 x86 Driver Update 3 (November 1994) is now available. The Driver Update is the mechanism by which new device drivers and video support are distributed to the field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.29: End Of Life - Board Upgrades to SPARCserver 6X0 Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) announces the transition of two board upgrades to SPARCserver(TM) 6x0 systems. The SPARCserver 6x0 systems and most upgrades to SPARCserver 6x0 were transitioned already, however, due to certain contract commitments the transition of these two board upgrades was postponed until now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.30: End-of-Life of Certain Software Products Software products to be removed from the pricelist: o All parts for SunOS 4.1.1 and SunOS 4.1.2 o All DevGuide 3.0 and 3.0.1 o All XGL 2.0 and 3.0.1 and XIL 1.0 o SearchIt o DXLib o ONC Source ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.31: Upgrades to SPARCstation Voyager Sun announces upgrades to the SPARCstation(TM) Voyager(TM) system. o Full system upgrades to both 12-in. color and 14-in. monochrome LCD SPARCstation Voyager systems o Competitive system upgrade to a 12-in. color LCD SPARCstation Voyager is also available ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.32: Legent Selected as Sun's US Premiere Developer Legent Corporation and Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) announced they are cooperating to deliver systems management solutions that tie together mainframe and distributed systems. Legent was selected as a Sun Microsystems Premier Developer and the companies will work closely on joint marketing and sales activities to service existing and new customers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 71.33: STB Hires DEC Veteran as VP of Marketing Sun Microsystems' SPARC Technology Business (STB) division announced the appointment of Art Swift (36) to the position of vice president of marketing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information This article contains general information about the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years. "SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to make some changes. For a variety of reasons, I started the two new journals, "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" , and moved production of all three journals to an independent company with its own resouces and Internet domain (FlashBack.COM). My goal, as always, is to provide useful, timely, high-quality information to the Sun user community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index This article contains a one line index entry for each of the articles posted to the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You may send for any of these articles by sending mail to FlashBack@FlashBack.COM. 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