---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunFlash March 1992 Table Of Contents SunFLASH Vol 39 #toc March 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note From The SunFlash Editor Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers Summary Of March's Messages (line count + title) Summary of Messages Sent This Month (issue # and synopsis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note From The SunFlash Editor For those of you that keep track of issue numbers, I messed up! I issued 39.08 twice! I have renumbered the second article numbered 39.08 to: 39.10 ClariNet Electronic Publishing Service The archive files for March 1992 should be available by the end of this week. There is a compressed tar file of all of the 1991 articles (291 articles, about 1.25Mb - about 4Mb when uncompressed.) on all of the archive servers. There are compressed tar files for each month as well as the whole year. newstop.ebay.sun.com (Sun access only) paris.cs.miami.edu pub/sunflash solar.nova.edu pub/sunflash src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash uunet.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash If you find material that would make a good SunFlash article, please send it to me for consideration and I'll post it. Remember that you can suppress the excess mail headers in most mail programs by adding a line to your .mailrc file thus: ignore 'Resent-From' 'X-Mailer' 'Errors-To' 'Newsgroups' 'Message-Id' 'Resent-Message-Id' 'Apparently-To' 'In-Reply-to' 'reply-To' 'References' 'Via' 'Status' 'Received' 'Return-Path' 'Precedence' 'X-Lines' If you want a copy of an article that you missed, please send the volume.issue (e.g. 37.00 for this article) to flash@sunvice.east.sun.com John J. McLaughlin System Engineer & SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA March 6th, 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers The Florida SunFlash is an electronic news service for Sun Microsystems computer users. It is distributed by more than 90 Sun offices and by about 40 Sun Local Users Groups in more than 35 countries. The Florida SunFlash has a subscription base of more that 50,000 Sun users. This is the March table of contents for the Florida SunFlash. If there are any items that you missed and really want to see, please send the required volume.issue numbers to flash@sunvice.East.Sun.com. For more information about SunFlash, send mail to info-sunflash thus: $ mail info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM Subject: info info ^D $ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Of March's Messages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Line Count Vol.# Title 100 39.01 SunPics Introduces NeWSprint XP Software 90 39.02 SMCC Expands Educational Services 90 39.03 Vendors Test TI-RPC/Netwise Technology 85 39.04 SMCC Revamps US Reseller Support Programs 97 39.05 Industry's First General Purpose TI-RPC 92 39.06 Arrow To Distribute SPARCengine Boards 365 39.07 HOT OFF THE PRESS 43 39.08 SunProgrammer Newsletter Available Free 415 39.09 Unbundled Software Release Matrix 677 39.10 ClariNet Electronic Publishing Service 106 39.11 Bombay Stock Exchange Automates With Sun 115 39.12 SunPEX 1.0 Now Shipping 88 39.13 Boeing Selects SunNet Manager 135 39.14 SMCC Lowers Price Of MP Servers 126 39.15 Announcing Solaris 1.0.1 AnswerBook 94 39.16 SMCC Reduces Prices On Graphics Systems 184 39.17 Sun User Group Announces SUG CD 1992.1 544 39.18 Sun's Hottest, Volume 2, Number 3 262 39.19 Third Party Product Announcements 1 308 39.20 Third Party Product Announcements 2 394 39.21 Third Party Product Announcements 3 120 39.22 ONC RPC Applications Toolkit 1.0 163 39.23 HOT OFF THE PRESS 103 39.24 SunSoft, Tivoli To Develop System Software 92 39.25 SunDBE 1.2 212 39.26 SPARCserver 690MP TPC-A Benchmark Results Total 5100 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of Messages Sent This Month -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39.01 SunPics Introduces NeWSprint XP Software Extends NeWSprint Software Capabilities Lets Network Users Print on Output Devices with High Resolution, Large Size SEYBOLD, Boston, Mass. -- February 18, 1992 -- SunPics, the Sun Microsystems, Inc. business dedicated to printing and imaging, today unveiled NeWSprint XP, licensable software that extends the capabilities of NeWSprint 2.0 software to a wider range of printing devices. The new technology, which will be available to developers and original equipment manufacturers, makes it possible to print files from any computer on a network-including Macintosh, IBM and IBM-compatible PCs, workstations, minicomputers and more-to output devices such as imagesetters, high-resolution laser printers, large-format plotters, and other high raster memory output devices. These devices are used by professional publishers, desktop publishers, newspapers, and others who require fast, high-quality, PostScript-compatible output. SunPics also announced that the first adopters of NeWSprint XP technology will be ECRM and SRS Imaging, both of which have agreed to license the new technology and incorporate it in upcoming products. Like the NeWSprint 2.0 product, NeWSprint XP speeds up the performance of output devices by allowing the page imaging process to be handled by powerful SPARC central processing units (CPUs) rather than by the slower processors resident in the output device. Printing becomes a background task in a network printing environment; no dedicated workstation is needed for imaging. This in turn can reduce printer costs, because no dedicated CPU or memory is needed in the output device. 39.02 SMCC SMCC Expands Educational Services Worldwide New Training Centers; Agreements with Partners Worldwide MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 2, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that it has opened customer training centers in Dallas and New York City. In addition, SMCC has agreements with service partners around the world to expand the delivery of courses to SMCC customers, bringing the number of centers worldwide to 65. The new facilities in Dallas and New York will train more than 2,000 customers per year. The centers offer customers a variety of courses, ranging from system administration, the Sun operating system and software, to programming and networking. SMCC centers worldwide offer more than 50 courses for software developers, application and graphics programmers, system programmers, and hardware maintainers. SMCC designs its courses to enable customers to optimize use of their workstations and increase productivity through superior technical and user training. Course options include classroom training (with lectures and laboratory exercises), technical seminars, interactive self-paced and video-based courses and group employee training at customer sites. As the leader in UNIX(R) system training, SMCC has trained more than 33,000 customers in the past year at centers in 20 countries around the globe. In addition to the new facilities, SMCC has training centers in the United States in California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as in Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. 39.03 Vendors Test TI-RPC/Netwise Technology At Connectathon 92 SAN JOSE, Calif. -- March 4, 1992 -- Connectathon '92, the annual interoperability event, was marked by the first interoperability testing of the Transport-Independent Remote Procedure Call (TI-RPC) interface. Vendors taking part included Fujitsu, IBM, Motorola, Novell, SunSoft and SunConnect. Interoperability was demonstrated on a variety of system software, including NetWare, PC-NFS, AIX/6000, Solaris, UNIX System V Release 4 and the AIX/ESA operating system, running on PCs, workstations from Fujitsu, IBM, Motorola and Sun, and an IBM mainframe. In addition to testing TI-RPC, vendors ensured that distributed applications generated by Netwise's RPC TOOL compiler were able to run across multiple platforms. The Netwise technology has been licensed by several vendors, including SunSoft, for resale as an advanced platform for the development of distributed applications. TI-RPC, part of SunSoft's Open Network Computing (ONC) platform, was co-developed by Sun and AT&T for UNIX System V Release 4. The source code is freely available for porting to non-SVR4 systems and currently runs on numerous systems, including NetWare, DOS, and IBM MVS and AIX. TI-RPC is compatible with the earlier ONC RPC and is designed to be independent of the underlying network transport. This means developers can write their application once and run it unmodified over multiple transport protocols. 39.04 SMCC Revamps US Reseller Support Programs Adds Software Telephone Support Services; Discounts on Spares, Repair Services, Fees MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 2, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today unveiled enhancements to its reseller service programs for U.S. value-added resellers (VARs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The revised programs incorporate two new software support services as well as enhancements to the existing reseller support programs, allowing SMCC resellers to better tailor service to customers' distinct needs. The new software services, SunSupportLine(SM) and SunSupportLine Plus (SM), are an added feature of the existing services and enable resellers to offer end users unlimited telephone support for system software running on Sun(TM) workstations and servers. SunSupportLine also provides resellers with software updates for their SMCC demonstration systems. SunSupportLine Plus expands on this by giving resellers automatic software updates for their end users' systems as well. SMCC revised its programs in response to extensive surveys conducted recently with its resellers. The company has more than 900 resellers in the United States. 39.05 SunSoft Unveils Industry's First General Purpose Transport-Independent RPC Toolkit Novell, Borland, Lotus, AST Research Endorse Technology MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif-- March 4, 1992 -- Expanding its leadership in distributed computing, SunSoft today announced the industry's first general purpose Transport-Independent Remote Procedure Call (TI-RPC) Toolkit for client-server application development. TI-RPC combined with code generation technology from NetWise, Inc. is a part of the ONC distributed computing services provided in the SunSoft Solaris solution. Called the ONC RPC Application Toolkit, this advanced development platform enables software developers to create a single version of a client-server application that runs unmodified across a range of operating systems, hardware platforms and networks. The toolkit and several implementations of TI-RPC were tested today at the Connectathon '92 interoperability event in San Jose, Calif. Leading hardware and software vendors including Novell Inc., the leading provider of network server operating systems solutions, Borland International, a leading developer of object oriented software and programming languages, Lotus Development Corp., the developer of the industry-leading Lotus 1-2-3 productivity package, and AST Research, a leading manufacturer of personal computers in the 80386/486 market endorsed SunSoft's ONC RPC Application Toolkit. In addition, Burlington Coat and VXM announced support for the new product. The toolkit is part of a comprehensive networking strategy to be announced by SunSoft in the next few months. 39.06 Arrow To Distribute SPARCengine Boards Becomes First Master Reseller to Offer SPARCengine Products MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 10, 1992-- Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) jointly announced that Arrow's Commercial Systems Group will add SMCC's SPARCengine(R) 2 and SPARCengine IPX(TM) boards to the list of products it now distributes through Sun-authorized resellers in the United States. Arrow already carries SMCC's complete line of workstations and servers. The addition of these boards will enhance Arrow's ability to further service the growing embedded board market, which includes medical and laboratory equipment, computer-integrated manufacturing, telecommunications and commercial applications. At 21.8 SPECint92/22.8 SPECfp92 and 21.8 SPECint92/21.5 SPECfp92 SPEC benchmarks respectively, SMCC's SPARCengine 2 and SPARCengine IPX boards are the highest-performance RISC-based boards on the market. These are the same boards used in SMCC's popular SPARCstation 2 and SPARCstation IPX systems. They use powerful application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and advanced graphics technology to compress all critical workstation functions such as a SPARC(R) RISC microprocessor, on-board graphics, memory, SCSI, audio and Ethernet networking onto a single compact board smaller than a sheet of paper. 39.07 HOT OFF THE PRESS This is an edited version of an internal newsletter that I have been given permission to post to this mailing list. -johnj Recent News February, 1992 39.08 SunProgrammer Newsletter Available Free SunPro, the software development products business of Sun Microsystems Inc., is happy to announce the debut of the SunProgrammer newsletter. This quarterly newsletter is targeted at the professional Solaris software developer and is filled with information and tips on the use of the SunPro compilers and developer productivity tools. Here are some of the articles in the first issue: * SPARCworks 2.0 - The Next Generation * Introducting SunPro * How to Choose an OOP Language * Performance Tuning * Code Reviews and much more! For a limited time you can obtain a FREE copy of this debut issue by sending your name, company, and mailing address to jennifer.umstattd@Sun.Com. 39.09 Unbundled Software Release Matrix This article shows for each unbundled Sun product - version numbers - release date (FCS or First Customer Ship date) - media supported (1/4" tape, CD-ROM, Floppy) - architecture supported (Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun-4, Sun4c, Sun4m, Sun386i etc.) 39.10 ClariNet Electronic Publishing Service This article is from the following newsgroup: From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: biz.clarinet Subject: ClariNet Info File Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp. ClariNet, in my own opinion, is a valuable service. Posting this article does not imply an endorsement by Sun. -johnj ClariNet is a new electronic publishing network service that provides professional news and information, including live UPI wireservice news, in the USENET file format. ClariNet lets you read an "electronic newspaper" right on your own computer. You can also get timely computer industry news, technology related wirestories, syndicated columns and features, financial information, stock quotes and more. ClariNet gives you scores of professionally produced newsgroups for about the same price as the analogous paper publications -- but without advertising. Instead of dialing up to an online service with a slow modem to read online news, you get it delivered to your own machine, to read and search at your own convenience, with your own favourite tools, on your own high speed terminal -- and there's no meter running while you read. 39.11 Bombay Stock Exchange Automates With Sun India's Premier Stock Exchange to Invest $30 Million in High Technology MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 18, 1992-- The Bombay Stock Exchange has designed a comprehensive strategy to automate its trading floor based on sophisticated computers from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC). The move is expected to prepare the exchange for more than 150,000 trades per day which is the estimated trade volume for 1993 and twice its present volume. The total integration, software and hardware costs for the exchange's new computerized system will be $30 million over the next 12 months. 39.12 SunPEX 1.0 Now Shipping - Industry standard for 3-D graphics display - ideal for MCAD, AEC, Scientific Visualization - Displays graphics generated by any PEX program on the net, even from other vendors machines - Accelerates rendering of SunPHIGS 2.0 and other 2-D and 3-D graphics over the network - Complete SPARCstation GX, GXplus, GS, GT support - Works with OpenWindows Version 3, providing 24-bit visuals Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) announces SunPEX 1.0, a network-transparent 3-D extension to the X11/NeWS server. It allows graphics applications to be distributed transparently across the network taking full advantage of graphics acceleration. As a powerful extension to the X11/NeWS server, SunPEX is ideal for graphics-intensive customers in MCAD, AEC, and scientific research. SunPEX is ideal for inhouse developers using SunPHIGS, end-users that use applications that are "PEX-capable", and customers that require distributed accelerated 3-D graphics. An example might be a customer running atmospheric modeling/analysis programs on a Sun 4/690 or Cray and displaying the results on an SS2GT. 39.13 Boeing Selects SunConnect's SunNet Manager For LAN/Internet Environment Network Services Group Standardizes on SunNet Manager Mountain View, Calif. --- March 24, 1992 --- SunConnect, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business today announced that the Boeing Network Services Support Group has standardized on SunNet Manager as the platform for its LAN/Internet network management environment. Boeing will use SunNet Manager nationwide to manage the Boeing Internet/LAN environment which currently includes a wide range of networking products from multiple vendors including routers, bridges, gateways and concentrators. "We needed a platform that could scale to our needs, as well as integrate and manage a wide variety of networking products from multiple vendors," said Dean Coons, Group Manager, Boeing Computer Services Network Information Systems. "SunNet Manager meets those needs and provides us with additional flexibility through its open and widely supported platform." "Customers need networking management solutions that scale well from small to large networks and provide the flexibility to integrate new applications and networking products," said Denis Yaro, Director of Network Management Product Development, SunConnect. "Boeing's choice of SunNet Manager is an excellent example of the momentum and industry-wide acceptance this platform has gained." 39.14 SMCC Lowers Price Of Multiprocessor Servers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 24, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) has made significant price reductions within the SPARCserver(TM) 600MP Series, its popular family of multiprocessor servers introduced last September. The price cuts make these servers the least expensive such systems available today. SMCC has slashed the cost of all configurations except the base configurations of the three models within this product family, with price reductions up to $7,000. In the case of the high-end SPARCserver 690MP system, SMCC has also added two 1.3-gigabyte IPI disk drives at no additional cost, increasing the system's functionality. In addition, SMCC has cut add-on memory prices for these servers by as much as 48 percent and had reduced the price of all add-on, 1.3-gigabyte disk drives by $1,000. Also lowered in price by $2,300 was a special configuration of the SPARCserver 630MP computer aimed at system administrators. It includes a 19-inch color monitor and graphics accelerator. These price cuts reaffirm SMCC's commitment to provide value. For example, the high-end SPARCserver 690MP system offers the industry's best UNIX(R) database price/performance on the TPC-A benchmark. Running the SYBASE(R) SQL Server(TM) 4.8 relational database management system (RDBMS), this Sun(TM) server delivers 95.41 transactions per second (tps), with a cost/tps of just $8,854. This result is better than all TPC-A price/performance results for all UNIX systems. The SPARCserver 690MP is the first system ever to break the $9,000/tpsA barrier. 39.15 Announcing Solaris 1.0.1 AnswerBook This product has been shipping for a while. -johnj - System Software AnswerBook updated to correspond to Solaris 1.0.1 - Includes OpenWindows Version 3 Full Developers Documentation Set - Upgrades available for current AnswerBook customers The System Software AnswerBook has a new name to reflect the fact that SMCC is now shipping SunSoft's Solaris system software environment. Solaris is Sun's new name for their distributed computing system software environment. Solaris is comprised of the following components: OPEN LOOK, DeskSet, OpenWindows, SunOS and ONC. Currently Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation is shipping Solaris 1.0.1, which includes OpenWindows Version 2 and SunOS 4.1.2 components. The Solaris 1.0.1 media product includes an OpenWindows Version 3 CD. The Solaris 1.0.1 AnswerBook CD contains two independent AnswerBooks - the first AnswerBook, Issue 1, Release 2, contains SunOS 4.1.2 Full Documentation, OpenWindow Version 2 Full Developer's Set (including OWV2 End User Manuals), and the Desktop SPARC Owner's Sets. The second AnswerBook, Issue 1, Release 3, contains SunOS 4.1.2 Full Documentation, Openwindow Version 3 Full Developer's Set (including OWV3 End User Manuals), and the Desktop SPARC Owner's Sets. 39.16 SMCC Reduces Prices On High-End 3-D Graphics Systems Desktop Memory, Monitor Prices Also Reduced MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 24, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) has slashed prices on its high-end 3-D graphics workstations by nearly 30 percent, the company reported today. The fully configured models of the SPARCstation(TM)2GS and SPARCstation 2GT are now among the least expensive 3-D solids workstations in their class. "One of the reasons we are the workstation industry's highest-volume supplier is because we offer better value," said Larry Hambly, vice president of marketing at SMCC. "We also believe that lower prices will help us in an important quest: broadening the market for 3-D graphics. And aggressive prices lead to higher volumes, strenthening our `open graphics initiative' by attracting even more hardware and software developers to offer products for our platform." SMCC also reduced prices on 19-inch monitors, making its best-selling family of desktop workstations even more affordable. In addition, prices of add-on memory have been reduced. For example, a 16-megabyte memory expansion option is nearly 70 percent less expensive than a similar product from HP. 39.17 Sun User Group Announces SUG CD 1992.1 This is a Sun Users Group announcement that was posted to USENET. Please contact the SUG directly if you have questions. -johnj From: peter@sug.org (Peter Salus) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Organization: The Sun User Group SUG CD 1992.1 is X11R5 and GNU on a CDROM, priced at $50 to SUG members, including a caddy! SUG's emphasis has always been on supplying the greatest possible service and value-added to our members. Last year, the SUG 1991 disk contained plug-and-play X11R4, 20MB of additional essential binaries, almost 200MB of Sun patches, fully-indexed archives of Sun-related net postings, priced at only $250. Our aim this year has been to reduce the price for disks which can be produced inexpensively, but to continue to supply as much value-added as possible. To accomplish this, we will be putting out a two disk set, the first containing what's ready and needed now, the second available later in '92, containing more SPARC binaries and other useful material not found on previous disks. The SUG 1992.1 disk, which was assembled by Robert A. Bruce, contains a lot of essential source code, and we decided it would be a great service to make it available right away to our members (and this pricing makes this a good opportunity to become a member!) for $50 per disk (including one of those hard-to-find caddies!). If you are not a SUG member, you can become one for an additional $40 if you live within the US or $55 outside. 39.18 Sun's Hottest, Volume 2, Number 3 This is the text of a newsletter, "Sun's Hottest", that is being mailed to Sun customers. It is an excellent summary of the products that have been announced over the last few months. -johnj C O N T E N T S Headline: Delivering next-generation computing to your desktop Networking News Multilanguage terminal emulation SNA over Token Ring Enhanced toolkit for distributed applications based on PC-NFS platform Fiber optics for the desktop DEC connectivity solutions expanded Token Ring communications for SPARC systems Direct IBM server communications from a SPARCserver Success of SunNet Manager continues NetView Interface Improved NFS performance Solaris 2.0: the inside story For application users: better performance, interoperable applications For developers: better tools for building applications faster For system administrators: simpler management, tighter security Close-up on OpenWindows Version 3 Making the move to Solaris 2.0 39.19 Third Party Product Announcements 1 RasterFLEX - Sbus-based Raster Accelerators Performance Monitor now available on SUN, etc. [alt.security] New Version of COPS is out (1.04) 39.20 Third Party Product Announcements 2 IOC - SCSI based IBM 370 Connectivity TCP/IP Ethernet Printer Interface Documenter's Workbench Release 3.2 39.21 Third Party Product Announcements 3 Nth PortableGL: Silicon Graphics compatible GL 4.0 Softare SBus Add-in Modules Now Support New Sun 600MP SPARCserver EMPOWER Remote Terminal Emulator from PERFORMIX EMPOWER/MONITOR EMPOWER/X EMPOWER/XMONITOR EMPOWER/GV 39.22 ONC RPC Applications Toolkit 1.0 -- Enables developers to create client/server applications as easily as standalone applications -- Shields application developers from having to understand the details of low-level network interfaces -- Leads to successful distribution of applications over a network using RPC technology -- Incorporates transport independent RPC (TI-RPC), a Solaris 2.0 technology, into Solaris 1.0, enabling developers to take advantage of Solaris 2.0 technology TODAY. SunSoft announced ONC RPC Application Toolkit 1.0 at Uniform, January, 1992. The Toolkit greatly simplifies the development of next-generation distributed client server applications. This product will begin shipping from SMCC in Q2 calendar year 1992. Product Positioning: -- Easy-to-use toolkit for developing TI-RPC based client/server applications. -- Designed specifically for C programmers; all input is derived from standard C syntax. -- Reduces time and effort needed to develop distributed applications. -- Includes TI-RPC fully supported on Solaris 1.0 systems, allowing applications to easily migrate to Solaris 2.0. 39.23 HOT OFF THE PRESS This is an edited version of an internal newsletter that I have been given permission to post to this mailing list. Note that I posted the previous edition (Feb) of this newsletter at the beginning of this month. -johnj Recent News March, 1992 39.24 SunSoft, Tivoli To Develop Industry's First OMG-Compliant System Management Foundation SunSoft today announced that it will jointly develop the industry's first OMG-compliant foundation for system management with Tivoli Systems, the leading provider of object-oriented system management applications for distributed computer systems. The press release is attached for your reference. The products of the joint development will be incorporated into a future release of Solaris, as a component of SunSoft's Project DOE (Distributed Objects Everywhere). SMCC will make these technologies available to its customers as they become available from SunSoft. 39.25 SunDBE 1.2 New Database Performance Product Announcement Now Sun customers can take even greater advantage of the multiprocessing capabilities of the SPARCserver 6x0 family with SunDBE 1.2! This latest release of Sun's industry-leading database accelerator boosts throughput by 35 to 100% over standard SunOS 4.1.2 and helps the SPARCserver 690 to phenomenal TPC-A and TPC-B performance of 95.41 TPS-A and 134.9 TPS-B. -- Enhances the performance of Informix, INGRES, Oracle, and Sybase on SPARCservers running SunOS 4.1.2 -- Preserves Sun's database price/performance Sun Database Excelerator 1.2 (SunDBE 1.2) extends Sun's price/performance leadership in the UNIX database server market. SunDBE 1.2 on SunOS 4.1.2 maintains database performance gains of SunDBE 1.1 on 4.1.1, while providing new levels of SPARC transaction performance through new features for the SPARCserver 600MP family. Together, SunDBE 1.2, SunOS 4.1.2, and SPARCserver6x0MP systems provide new levels of throughput and improved response time under large user loads. 39.26 SPARCserver 690MP TPC-A Benchmark Results Database Benchmark Results: TPC-A and TPC-B SPARCserver 690MP Delivers Outstanding Database Performance and Industry-Leading Price/Performance This message announces 3 new benchmark results: + TPC Benchmark A (tm) on SS690MP and SYBASE SQLServer 4.8.1 + TPC Benchmark B (tm) on SS690MP and SYBASE SQLServer 4.8.1 + TPC Benchmark B (tm) on SS2 and SYBASE SQLServer 4.8.1 Results of these benchmarks reinforce Sun's leadership position in the database server market, and demonstrate for the first time SPARCserver capabilities for high terminal connectivity. This is the first time ever that Sun has published results for the TPC Benchmark A (tm). The price/performance result for the SPARCserver 690MP is the BEST EVER posted by *any* vendor on the TPC-A benchmark. Results of this benchmark clearly demonstrate the superior price-performance and high levels ofdatabase performance attainable on Sun's servers when supporting 100's of user terminals in an OLTP environment. The SPARCserver 690MP TPC-B results are the best results to date by Sun. This is the first time Sun has done the TPC-B Benchmark on a SPARCserver 690MP. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, paris.cs.miami.edu, uunet.uu.net, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au 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. John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. (305) 776-7770.