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 September 1993 SunFLASH Vol 57 #00 September 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57.00 The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest September 1993 This article contains information about the Florida SunFlash mailing list and a brief summary of each of the articles posted during September, 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57.00.A SunFlash Aliases - how mail aliases are used to distribute SunFlash. Local exploder aliases 57.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 57.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 57.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 57.00.E September's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 57.00.F September'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. Please send email to flash@sun.com and tell me what you think of these changes. Your comments (good and bad) will be appreciated! John J. McLaughlin SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, FL October 3rd, 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 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. 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This will cause all errors and replies to go to that email address instead of mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 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: SunFlash Archives I archive SunFlash onto a number of ftp servers. Each volume (or month) is stored as a compressed tar file. 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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: September's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 57.01 Industry Leaders Announce Common APIs for UNIX 57.02 SunSoft Offers DCE Products for Solaris 2 57.03.A Multi Player SimCity Released 57.03.B Cranel's Network Optical File Server (NOFS) product family now 57.03.C O'Reilly Internet magazine "THE GLOBAL NETWORK NAVIGATOR" 57.03.D Du Pont Pixel to port OpenGL to Sun's SPARCstation ZX 57.03.E SBus Directory 57.03.F Artecon, Inc. and SunService join forces 57.03.G Book: "MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES" 57.04.A Mega Media-1: CD-ROM of 24 bit images & backgrounds released 57.04.B New Fast/Wide SCSI Host Adapter for SBus 57.04.C Book from O'Reilly: "Connecting to Internet" 57.04.D The Fixer - Binary Editor 57.04.E NPGL Compatibility For SPARCstation ZX and SPARCstation 10ZX 57.04.F Patrol Software Announces Support for SunNet Manager 57.04.G SPRY's AIRMAIL: Your PC's Window on the Internet 57.05.A Adobe Illustrator for the Sun Platform Now Shipping 57.05.B Aggregate Computing's Educational Newsletter 57.05.C SunSoft Press Book: "GUIDE TO SOLARIS" 57.05.D SunSoft Press Book: "SOLARIS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPER'S GUIDE" 57.06 ONC+ RPC Application Toolkit 2.0 57.07 SunPHIGS 3.0 High Level Graphic Library 57.08 Price Increase For 4 MBit-Based Memory X-Options 57.09.A New LUG Policy 57.09.B New Parallax Video Products for Sun Workstations 57.09.C Aurora adds RJ-45 connectivity to SBus Expansion Products 57.09.D HPCwire's One-Year Anniversary Special: 57.09.E Multi-protocol print servers 57.10 Type 5 Mouse to Replace Type 4 Mouse 57.11 NVRAM-SIMM NFS Accelerator for Solaris 2.2 57.12 Flexible Solaris Licensing 57.13 August 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) 57.13.A STB Editor's Introduction 57.13.B August 1993 STB Contents 57.14 Sunergy #7 Satellite Broadcast September 28, 1993 57.15 Removal of VME Board and Software Products From Price List 57.16.A THE SOLARIS TECHNICAL EXCHANGE 57.16.B The Second Annual Software Freedom Forum (November 10-12, 1993) 57.16.C USENIX 7th System Administration Conference (LISA VII) 57.17.A GISExpress ARC/INFO Enhancement 57.17.B Prentice Hall Online Catalog 57.17.C Highland X-recorder 57.17.D Vista Technologies announces release of PCTE Workbench 1.1 57.17.E XView to Motif transition toolkit - beta sites sought 57.18 SMCC Joins the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT) 57.19.A Sun's Hottest Volume 4 Number 1 57.19.B Solaris Shines! 57.19.C Introducing SPARCclassic X 57.19.D Graphics Products Summary 57.19.E Sun's New Graphics Hardware: The Dawn Of A New Graphics Age 57.19.F NeWSprinter CL+: The Color Printer for Client-Server Workgroups 57.19.G Sun Scores 1994 World Cup 57.19.H In Short 57.20 The SPARCcluster 1: SMCC Debuts Industry's Most Powerful NFS Server 57.21 New Version of Solaris Availability Announced 57.22 Solaris on x86 Momentum Continues 57.23 SMI and Amdahl Announce Major Agreements 57.24 Control Data Joins Sun Integration Alliance Program (SIAP) 57.25 SunSoft Unveils Solaris Developer Kits 57.26 Three SunService Announcements 57.26.A SunService Enhances SunsPectrum With Two New Support Offerings 57.26.B SunService Offers Certification for Solaris Sytem Administrators 57.26.C Enhanced SunTutor Teaches Key Skills for Administering Solaris 2 57.27.A Wabi Golden Master Shipping to OEM Customers 57.27.B SunSoft Will Ship Wabi for Solaris 57.28 Sunergy #7 Live Satellite Broadcast 57.29.A Low Volume CD's - Low Volume CD-ROM Production Services 57.29.B A Graphical Status Monitor for Sybase 57.29.C Book: Learning UNIX 57.29.D Book: Multiprocessor System Architectures 57.29.E Performance Tech Provides New SCSI-2 Wide 20 Mbyte/s Sbus Adapter 57.29.F Free ShowMe Promotion 57.29.G WAIS videos now available 57.30 SunIntegration Services Expands Management Team 57.31.A SIREN MAIL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER INTEGRATES E-MAIL AND FAX 57.31.B NetWorker 4.0 and bundle special from Qualix 57.31.C Announcing FrameMaker 4.0 From Qualix 57.31.D Frame Technology Introduces FrameMaker 4 57.32.A book: Love Your Job! 57.32.B METAPHOR INC. ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS 57.32.C OCR for $999 57.32.D snapshots of file systems 57.33 CIO Magazine Rank Sun Number One 57.34 Dataquest reports Sun expanding dominance in technical markets -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: September's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57.01 Industry Leaders Announce Common APIs for UNIX 75+ leading UNIX system suppliers and software developers agree on a comprehensive specification defining a common set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for UNIX 57.02 SunSoft Offers DCE Products for Solaris 2 SunSoft made the following announcement on Wednesday, August 25, 1993 regarding the availability of DCE networking services. Additional information on SMCC's pricing and availability of the DCE products will published at the end of September. 57.03.A Multi Player SimCity Released SimCity for Unix was awarded product of the year 1992 by Unix World. Now it runs on standard X11 servers, and supports multiple players. You can retrieve the fully functional demo distribution via anonymous ftp. 57.03.B Cranel's Network Optical File Server (NOFS) product family now includes systems that employ the Metrum half-inch data cartridge (18.1 gigabytes of data on a single cartridge) with autochangers capable of holding 48 or 600 cartridges. The AMASS filesystem and library management software implements a true virtual filesystem (VFS). 57.03.C O'Reilly Internet magazine "THE GLOBAL NETWORK NAVIGATOR" O'Reilly launches experiment in online publishing. GNN is a free Internet-based information center that will initially be available as a quarterly. 57.03.D Du Pont Pixel to port OpenGL to Sun's SPARCstation ZX Sun is to assist Du Pont Pixel port a highly optimized version of the OpenGL(tm) application programming interface to SMCC's SPARCstation(tm) ZX and SPARCstation 10ZX. 57.03.E SBus Directory "THE SBUS PRODUCT DIRECTORY", "The most complete guide of currently available products for SPARC based systems" is now available from Novation Data Services. Sections include: INTRODUCTION TO SBUS SBUS PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS WORKSTATION INTERFACES SPARC HOST COMPUTERS UPGRADE GUIDELINES MANUFACTURERERS INDEX HOW TO OBTAIN SBUS PRODUCTS PRODUCT INQUIRY SERVICE 57.03.F Artecon, Inc. and SunService join forces Artecon announced their commitment to the SunPartners reseller support program offered by SunService. 57.03.G Book: "MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES" A technical survey of Multiprocessor/Multithreaded Systems using SPARC, Multi-level Bus Architectures and Solaris (SunOS) A SunSoft Press/PTR Prentice Hall Publication 57.04.A Mega Media-1: CD-ROM of 24 bit images & backgrounds released The first in a series of theme related digital media CD's. Contains more than 1000 24 bit JPEG, IFF, and TIFF images. $34.94 + S + h 57.04.B New Fast/Wide SCSI Host Adapter for SBus 20 MB/Sec SCSI Controller Targets RAID Arrays The Antares SCSI-FWS board is the world's first Fast/Wide SCSI Host Adapter for SBus systems. It doubles the peak SCSI data transfer speed from 10 to 20 megabytes per second by increasing the width of the SCSI data bus from 8 to 16 bits. 57.04.C Book from O'Reilly: "Connecting to Internet" The first guide to show users how to assess their needs so that they can determine the kind of Internet service that is best for them. It also describes how to find a local access provider and evaluate the services they offer. The book closes with comprehensive appendices listing public access service providers offering dialup access in the United States and Internet access providers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. 57.04.D The Fixer - Binary Editor FIXER allows: Application programmers to browse and edit binary files in Unix that previously has been a troublesome function. 57.04.E NPGL Compatibility For SPARCstation ZX and SPARCstation 10ZX Portable Graphics Inc's NPGL v1.3 is a hardware-independent version of the Silicon Graphics(R) IRIS(R) GL 4.0 library. It takes full advantage of the SPARCstation ZX's speed. Portable Graphics has clocked the SPARCstation 10ZX at 270,000 triangle meshes per second with NPGL-based applications. NPGL also provides support for SMCC's new TurboGXplus(TM) graphics board. 57.04.F Patrol Software Announces Support for SunNet Manager PatrolLink extends the SunNet Manager environment by providing it with a powerful object-oriented graphical environment for monitoring and managing all of the important applications in a company's corporate network. PatrolLink allows the SunNet Manager user to click on the icon of any host machine in the SunNet Manager GUI and "drill down" into a graphical representation of all the applications running on that host. 57.04.G SPRY's AIRMAIL: Your PC's Window on the Internet Once you have an Internet connection, you can use your Sun Workstation as a gateway to the Internet for your PC. Coexistence with your PC LAN is a snap with AIRMAIL, because it is compatible and includes Novell's LAN WorkPlace and works with Sun Select's PC-NFS 4.0 and earlier. 57.05.A Adobe Illustrator for the Sun Platform Now Shipping Adobe Illustrator 3.5 is the first Adobe application ported to the Sun platform. This powerful illustration and single-page design application enables users to create and compose all elements of a page on Sun workstations running Solaris 1.1 57.05.B Aggregate Computing's Educational Newsletter Welcome to Distributed Directions, the distributed computing newsletter from Aggregate Computing. Whether you are a developer, manager, or executive, Distributed Directions is designed to keep you informed about the latest distributed computing technologies Subject: TOWARD DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING: A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE Subject: WHY NETSHARE WASN'T WRITTEN IN A DAY Subject: SOLVING THE TOWERS OF HANOI PUZZLE Subject: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING 101: A GLOSSARY Subject: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS 57.05.C SunSoft Press Book: "GUIDE TO SOLARIS" Written for the end user, this book covers the Solaris environment. 57.05.D SunSoft Press Book: "SOLARIS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPER'S GUIDE" This book covers how to create global applications on the Solaris environment for either SPARC or x86 platforms. 57.06 ONC+ RPC Application Toolkit 2.0 SMCC announces the Solaris 2 version for the existing ONC RPC Application Toolkit 1.0. ONC+ RPC Application Toolkit is a RPC protocol compiler that supports Sun's TI-RPC. 57.07 SunPHIGS 3.0 High Level Graphic Library Follow on product to SunPHIGS 2.0, SunPHIGS 3.0 is based on ANSI/ISO PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS standards. Provides C and Fortran binding support. Runs on Solaris 2.2 or later operating system. Dynamically tesselated NURBS. Full support of XGL 3.0 loadable pipelines. 57.08 Price Increase For 4 MBit-Based Memory X-Options SMCC increases price on ONLY 4 Mbit DRAM memory x-options No price changes for 16 Mbit DRAM based memory x-options. No price changes for memory in systems. 57.09.A New LUG Policy The Sun User Group has gone through some dramatic changes this year. This article describes the new policy for Local User Groups (LUGS). 57.09.B New Parallax Video Products for Sun Workstations 3 products designed for high-volume commercial applications of workstation-based real-time video Software applications developed on XVideo can now be deployed to end-users on PowerVideo and MultiVideo cards. 57.09.C Aurora adds RJ-45 connectivity to SBus Expansion Products With the RJ-45 telephone connector-style option, and standard DB-25 support, Aurora products allow end users and systems integrators to link peripherals to any SPARC system via existing unshielded twisted pair (UTP) or shielded twisted pair (STP) wiring, or both, unmodified. 57.09.D HPCwire's One-Year Anniversary Special: HPCwire is the only electronic publication dedicated to the High-Performance Computing industry. It is a for-fee service in which subscribers are sent a summary article bi-weekly. The full text of the summerized articles can be fetched by sending email with the article's id number to an email auto-respose service. 57.09.E Multi-protocol print servers Supports Berkeley (SunOS) or System V Unix (Solaris) printing environments without the need for host software or having to compile source on unsupported platforms. Fast: 60% to 800% faster than any other print server. Novell is also supported. 57.10 Type 5 Mouse to Replace Type 4 Mouse The new Type 5 mouse, which will work with all current Sun configurations, features a higher resolution of 300 CPI over the Type 4 mouse 200 CPI and several ergonomic improvements. 57.11 NVRAM-SIMM NFS Accelerator for Solaris 2.2 NVRAM-SIMM Prestoserve comes with a unique UNIX(R) device driver that accelerates the speed of synchronous write operations taking place. This significantly improves the performance of disk-bound applications running locally on servers. Accelerating the synchronous write performance also accelerates the rate of NFS(R) write operations. Net result is a 300% improvement in NFS writes to the server. 57.12 Flexible Solaris Licensing Sun has improved the Licensing scheme for Solaris. Some definitions have changed to better reflect Sun's client/server and peer-to-peer paradigms. Factors to consider in licensing include #users, definition of a user, #cpus, primary usage of a machine (e.g. as an NFS server or a print server), license requirements when more cpus are added. 57.13 August 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. 57.13.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 57.13.B August 1993 STB Contents 57.14 Sunergy #7 Satellite Broadcast September 28, 1993 Live Satellite Broadcast. Theme is "Cyberjockying in the 21st Century". This next Sunergy live broadcast will focus on the issues and technologies surrounding the worldwide movement of information. It will take a look at the internet, information suppliers, information retrievers and the other related resources. Discussions will also include regulation and security on the internet. 57.15 Removal of VME Board and Software Products From Price List The following products and associated parts are being removed from the SMCC Price List: SunLink Channel Gateway SunLink Local 3270 SunLink BSCRJE SunLink FDDI/DX SunLink MCP SunLink ALM2 SunLink HSI VME Prestoserve Sun Net Coprocessor 57.16.A THE SOLARIS TECHNICAL EXCHANGE Sept. 20 New York NY Sept. 23 Los Angles CA Sept. 29 Boston MA Oct. 4 San Francisco CA Spend a day with SunSoft's top engineers! The Solaris Technical Exchange is a one-day conference designed to provide developers and engineering managers with technical information covering all aspects of the Solaris environment, encompassing new technologies, programming interfaces, and the software development tools required to create next generation application software. 57.16.B The Second Annual Software Freedom Forum (November 10-12, 1993) November 10-12, 1993 San Francisco CA At the forum you'll learn about worldwide market conditions, pitfalls to avoid when entering new territory, and ways to achieve greater success in countries where you're already doing business. Program and Registration Information This conference provides a forum exclusively for System Administrators, System Managers and Network Managers to meet and share new ideas and experiences. 57.16.C USENIX 7th System Administration Conference (LISA VII) November 1 - 5, 1993 Monterey, California The USENIX Association and its special technical group, SAGE, invite you to participate in the 7th annual System Administration Conference. This conference provides a forum exclusively for System Administrators, System Managers and Network Managers to meet and share new ideas and experiences. Its scope will include system and network administration for sites of all sizes and configurations. 57.17.A GISExpress ARC/INFO Enhancement New GISExpress Software Provides Speed Enhancement for ARC/INFO. The product significantly enhances the display speed of ARC/INFO, the leading GIS software developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). 57.17.B Prentice Hall Online Catalog You may now ftp to ftp.prenhall.com or gopher to gopher.prenhall.com. Browse or download our Networking and Data Communications catalog. 57.17.C Highland X-recorder for creating both quick, easy and professionally produced demonstrations of your X Window-based Unix software products. Highland Xrecorder captures everything taking place on your screen, including mouse movements, menus, and graphical output, by recording the X commands produced by your application. 57.17.D Vista Technologies announces release of PCTE Workbench 1.1 PCTE Workbench 1.1 is a toolkit for constructing hypermedia-based environments and applications with the Portable Common Tool Environment (PCTE). It provides environment builders with an easy-to-use interface for browsing, building, editing, and querying the PCTE object base. Its sophisticated tool integration framework enables hypermedia applications to be built quickly and easily. 57.17.E XView to Motif transition toolkit - beta sites sought Qualix Group, Inc., a leading provider of UNIX and client/server software and support services, has signed an agreement with UK-based Interface Engineering Software Ltd. to develop an API-level solution for porting applications from OPEN LOOK to Motif. The product will ship in Fall '93. 57.18 SMCC Joins the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT) (SMCC) has joined the announcement of the formation of the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT). SMCC is a new member of the NIIT, a non-profit consortium of industry, government, and academic organizations. The NIIT is chartered to develop a nationwide, high-speed information infrastructure testbed. The testbed is scheduled to be on-line by November, 1993 and will accelerate the practical implementation of the National Information Infrastructure concept. 57.19.A Sun's Hottest Volume 4 Number 1 This article contains the text of a newsletter, "Sun's Hottest", that is mailed to many customers. It is an excellent summary of Sun's recent product announcements. 57.19.B Solaris Shines! Solaris 2 Binary Compatibility Package. Solaris 2 Network Transition Kit. Solaris 1.1 and microSPARC processor. Solaris 2 Associate Program. Solaris 2 x86 Certification Program. Bridging the gap between PCs and client-server computing: Solaris for x86 Online: DiskSuite (tm) 2.0 now available on Solaris 2.1 Japanese, French, German, Italian, and Swedish versions of Solaris 2.2 Motif Toolkit for Solaris 2.2 57.19.C Introducing SPARCclassic X Sun's first X terminal, SPARCclassic X, is the industry's most innovative X terminal, with its low-cost, plug-and-play upgrade to a workstation. 57.19.D Graphics Products Summary highlights of the SPARCstation 10TurboGXplus and SPARCstation ZX and 10ZX system. Also, SPARCstation SX imaging and SunVideo technologies 57.19.E Sun's New Graphics Hardware: The Dawn Of A New Graphics Age SPARCstation 10TurboGXplus system SPARCstation ZX and 10ZX systems SPARCstation SX technology & SunVideo technology 57.19.F NeWSprinter CL+: The Color Printer for Client-Server Workgroups Sun's printing solution in client-server computing includes NeWSprint, BalanceTool and FastRaster 57.19.G Sun Scores 1994 World Cup Sun is an official marketing partner and exclusive computer supplier for the 1994 World Cup, the world's largest single-sport event. 57.19.H In Short ShowMe 1.1, New models (600MP and SPARCstation 10), SunNet Manager and Novell's NMS, SunLink OSI 8.0 SunLink TRI/S 3.0 and SunLink HSI/S 2.0 for Solaris 2 57.20 The SPARCcluster 1: SMCC Debuts Industry's Most Powerful NFS Server industry's first network cluster for dedicated NFS(R) file service. Clusters combine multiple network systems to provide a single application resource. This system provides 51 percent more performance and more than twice the networking connectivity of the next closest competitive system 57.21 New Version of Solaris Availability Announced SunSoft announcement regarding the availability of the Solaris 2.3 operating environment. Note that SMCC availability will be announced in mid-October. 57.22 Solaris on x86 Momentum Continues The following announcement was made earlier today at UNIX Expo by SunSoft regarding significant enhancements to its Solaris x86 software environment, specifically designed to address the needs of the enterprise-wide computing market. These features include expanded multiprocessing support and additional security features. And more peripherals. 57.23 SMI and Amdahl Announce Major Agreements covering operating systems software, servers, and customer service targeted at the enterprise computing marketplace from desktop to data center 57.24 Control Data Joins Sun Integration Alliance Program (SIAP) The announcement is part of Sun's Integration Alliance program and is especially applicable to the real time, process control and test and measurement markets. Sun and CDC have teamed with Lynx Real Time Systems, which will provide standards-compliant technology for high-performance real-time needs. 57.25 SunSoft Unveils Solaris Developer Kits The kits offer a number of features including development tools, sample code, on-line documentation, and training and support materials, designed to accelerate the development process. 57.26 Three SunService Announcements 1. Enhancements to the SunSpectrum Program, 2. Certification Program for Solaris System Administrators, 3. and Additions to SunTutor. 57.26.A SunService Enhances SunsPectrum With Two New Support Offerings Business-wide Pricing Option Simplifies Adding New Systems to Existing Support Contracts SunSolve Online(TM) Provides Quick, Easy Access to Patches 57.26.B SunService Offers Certification for Solaris Sytem Administrators Teams with Drake to Develop Tests for Three Skill Levels Available in the US 57.26.C Enhanced SunTutor Teaches Key Skills for Administering Solaris 2 57.27.A Wabi Golden Master Shipping to OEM Customers SunSelect announced that it has released the final "golden master" of its Wabi(TM) 1.0 software to its OEM partners, paving the way for customer shipments. The partners include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, SunSoft, and Novell's UNIX(R) Systems Group (formerly USL). 57.27.B SunSoft Will Ship Wabi for Solaris 57.28 Sunergy #7 Live Satellite Broadcast Satellite Specifications Program Information Guest Biographies 57.29.A Low Volume CD's - Low Volume CD-ROM Production Services flexible CD-ROM production services for quantities ranging from single units to literally tens of thousands. 57.29.B A Graphical Status Monitor for Sybase DBMonitor is real time graphical (X-Windows) display showing key usage statistics for the Sybase database server being monitored. It displays cpu loading, I/O loading, and idle time in the form of a pie chart. 57.29.C Book: Learning UNIX newly-revised edition of O'Reilly's basic introduction to UNIX. 57.29.D Book: Multiprocessor System Architectures is the first of its kind to bring together in one volume a coherent description of the elements that provide for the design and development of multiprocessor systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. It is the first book to introduce new technology in the area of packet switched buses and multithreaded application environments integrated in the implementation of high performance multiprocessor systems. 57.29.E Performance Tech Provides New SCSI-2 Wide 20 Mbyte/s Sbus Adapter comprehensive high performance Wide/FAST SCSI-2 Adapter family for Sun. Supports Solaris 1.1 (SunOS 4.1.x) and Solaris 2.X software that allows simple "plug and play" capability 57.29.F Free ShowMe Promotion Sun customers ordering a SPARCclassic, SPARCstation LX or SPARCstation 10 by September 30, 1993 are eligible for a free copy of the ShowMe 1.1 desktop conferencing software solution for each workstation purchased. 57.29.G WAIS videos now available The United States Geological Survey has produced the following training videotapes on the subject of Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS): 57.30 SunIntegration Services Expands Management Team SunIntegration Services is an SMCC organization created to develop and implement rightsizing solutions for customers worldwide. SunIntegration works with Sun partners (SunService, SunNetworks, Sun Microsystems Federal, and SMCC's worldwide field organization) and with commercial system integration partners (e.g. GE Information Systems, Andersen Consulting, SAIC, SynOptics, Cabletron, Cambridge Technology Partners, AT&T and Cap Gemini Sogeti) 57.31.A SIREN MAIL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER INTEGRATES E-MAIL AND FAX Siren Mail is an Internet e-mail and fax communications center for open systems computing platforms. Siren Mail offers Motif and window-based character interfaces, and uses standard TCP/IP and UNIX mail transports, RFC822/MIME Internet protocols and fax servers to send mail messages and documents anywhere in the world. 57.31.B NetWorker 4.0 and bundle special from Qualix Qualix is now offering a unique bundle of hardware and software backup products that can save you time and money. 57.31.C Announcing FrameMaker 4.0 From Qualix The most popular documentation publishing package on the Sun workstation just got better! Brief summary of new features by Qualix, an authorised Frame reseller. 57.31.D Frame Technology Introduces FrameMaker 4 for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh platforms This is the official Frame Press Release 57.32.A book: Love Your Job! We have just published the first careers guide for people who don't want to or can't change their jobs, but who are dissatisfied with at least one aspect of it. While Love Your Job! is a departure from our technical books, editorially it fits very well within our desire to publish information that helps people in pain. 57.32.B METAPHOR INC. ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS Metaphor Inc., a leading provider of decision support software and services, announced a joint marketing and development agreement with Sun. Through the agreement, Metaphor will port its database gateway products for Oracle and SYBASE SQL Server to Sun's. 57.32.C OCR for $999 Aurora brings PC pricing to workstation software market with SPARC system optical character recognition for less than $1000 57.32.D snapshots of file systems SNAP(tm) is a software product for that adds the "time dimension" to file systems and raw partitions. SNAP can benefit practically any SPARC SunOS 4.1.x system with a disk (no special hardware is required). SNAP gives users continuous, direct, writable access to previous versions of file systems. Users can restore lost or corrupted files, or assess recent changes to a file, using standard commands such as cd, ls, diff, cp. 57.33 CIO Magazine Rank Sun Number One Leading chief information officers (CIOs) from across the nation gave Sun Microsystems, Inc. top ranking in most categories in a recent CIO survey conducted by CIO magazine. 57.34 Dataquest reports Sun expanding dominance in technical markets According to recently released figures from Dataquest, Sun is the technical workstation leader in core technical markets, including mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD). ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. 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