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 January 1994 SunFLASH Vol 61 #00 January 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.00 The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest January 1994 This article contains information about SunFlash, an electronic journal for Sun users, and a brief summary of each of the articles posted during January, 1994. (767 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.00.A January's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 61.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 61.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 61.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 61.00.E SunFlash Aliases - how mail aliases are used to distribute SunFlash. Local exploder aliases 61.00.F January'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 February 1, 1994 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 61.00.A December's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.01 Sun's Hottest Volume 4 Number 1 61.02 Third Party Product Announcements 61.02.A ER Mapper image processing system 4.1 for SunOS 4.1 and Solaris 2.x 61.02.B ASK Group Expands Partnership With Sun 61.02.C DeskLab Analog Data Acquisition and Voice/Telephony Product 61.02.D Aurora SBus Token Ring Adapter Adds Solaris 2.X Compatibility 61.02.E Druid - Programming by Demonstration of GUIs 61.03 SMCC Announces TPC-C Results 61.04 SMCC ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF SOLARIS 1.1.1 61.05 Just Published from SunSoft Press 61.06 Third Party Product Announcements 61.06.A AMASS-DataMgr, Hierarchical Storage Management Software 61.06.B SSI/Aurora Token Ring-SNA announcement 61.06.C GraphView 2.0 for Sun Workstations - demo available 61.06.D Open Licensing Program for Tivoli Management Framework 2.0 61.07 Amdahl, Ask Group, Oracle Join PWI Effort 61.08 COSE Sysadm Survey for Sun Customers 61.09 Sunergy #8 Satellite Broadcast (with Satellite Coordinates) 61.10 Third Party Product Announcements 61.10.A QA Partner - Automated Software Testing Tool for GUIs 61.10.B RAINBOW: From Proprietary Word Processor to SGML 61.10.C TAE Plus, A GUI Builder for Programmers and Non-Programmers 61.10.D Informix Announces Informix Dynamic Server 61.10.E CAD-system "LOGOCAD" for mechanical construction 61.11 SunNet Manager 2.2 61.12 SunSoft: Distributed Object Interoperability With Microsoft Windows 61.13 Sun Licenses SPARCstation LX Board To Chinese Workstation Maker 61.14 Sun User Group Solaris Seminar (Boston, MA, USA) 61.15 SunATM & SunFastEthernet 61.16 Non-Stop Logistics and Retail Software Vendors 61.17 SunNews: SunFed Protest, Sun Foundation Grants 61.17.A SunFed Files Protest with GAO 61.17.B Corporate Grants 61.18 APT Installs Sun-Based $2.5 Million Data Center 61.19 HOT OFF THE PRESS (January 1994) 61.20 SMCC Ships 20-way SPARCcenter 2000 61.21 Sun's 2nd Quarter, Fiscal Year Results 61.22 Updated Internet Services List (Jan 15 1994) Part 1 of 2 61.22 Updated Internet Services List (Jan 15 1994) Part 2 of 2 61.24 Removal of SPARCserver 600MP Series Systems From Price List 61.25 New Configurations for the SPARCcenter 2000 61.26 Price Decreases For DRAM, VRAM, NVRAM Memory X-Options 61.27 Online: DiskSuite 2.0.1 61.28 Sun/TI Announce Collaboration on ATM Technology 61.29 Aggressive New Prices On Mass Storage X-Options 61.30 New Differential Fast/Wide SCSI-2 Options 61.31 SunPro Makes Five Announcements 61.31.A SunPro Introduces Integrated Product Suite: SunPro WorkShop 61.31.B SunPro Introduces New Tools For SPARC(r) MultiProcessor Systems 61.31.C SunPro Introduces Major Enhancements To SPARCworks tools 61.31.D SunPro Unveils New State-Of-The-Art C++ Compiler 61.31.E SunPro Extends SPARCworks Ada with MT development Tool 61.32 SunSoft Announces XTL Teleservices for Solaris 61.33 Sun Introduces Customer Management Solutions 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 61.00 January 1994 Table Of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 61.00.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). 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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 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 ----- 61.00.toc ------ 61.jan.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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 61.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email You may obtain back issues by sending the volume and part number to flashadm@sun.com. 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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: 61.00.F November's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.01 Sun's Hottest Volume 4 Number 1 This article contains the text of a newsletter, "Sun's Hottest", that is printed and mailed to many customers. It is an excellent summary of Sun's recent product announcements. Send comments to Tracey Hoskinson at comments@goldenbear.Corp.Sun.COM C O N T E N T S The Hottest in Visual Computing Premium 20-inch color monitor Over 75 UNIX leaders announce common UNIX OS API specification Networking Notes... SunCD Plus: Dazzling speed, new multimedia capabilities World Cup technology will be state of the art SPARCcluster 1 Sun/Oracle TPC-A Result for SPARCserver 1000 Sun leads the market in UNIX-based relational databases Cray Research Superservers introduces 64-way SPARC MP server Introducing Solaris 2.3 AT&T Selects Sun for Rightsizing Solution CIOs rank Sun #1 The technical market leader One million and counting... SBus IEEE standard New Type 5 mouse Wabi on R/S 6000 and other Platforms NFS Version 3 (567 lines) 61.02 Third Party Product Announcements 5 articles, 586 lines 61.02.A ER Mapper image processing system 4.1 for SunOS 4.1 and Solaris 2.x Earth Resource Mapping, developers of the ER Mapper image processing system for earth science applications, today announced the release of ER Mapper 4.1 for SunOS 4.1 and Solaris 2.x. Earth Resource Mapping and their worldwide distributor network provide free ER Mapper CD-ROMs upon request for those interested in evaluating the product. (132 lines) 61.02.B ASK Group Expands Partnership With Sun The ASK Group, developers of Ingres, announced the expansion of its current strategic partnership with Sun Microsystems: o joint engineering effort (ASK Products on Sun first) o joint sales, marketing and technology development of ASK MANMAN/X on Sun/Solaris/SPARC o ASK & SunSoft to collaborate on connectivity solutions o ASK Group to support the Public Windows Interface (PWI) (120 lines) 61.02.C DeskLab Analog Data Acquisition and Voice/Telephony Product Gradient Technology's DeskLab 216 now supports Solaris 2. The SCSI-based DeskLab hardware provides real-time functionality and data buffering, and it installs like a SCSI hard disk. An optional two port analog telephone interface supports DTMF detection. (27 lines) 61.02.D Aurora SBus Token Ring Adapter Adds Solaris 2.X Compatibility Aurora Technologies has added Solaris 2.X compatibility to its SBus Token Ring Adapter list of features, allowing users of the Sun Microsystems' SPARCstation 10, SPARCcenter 1000/2000, SPARCclassic and LX models to communicate over 4/16 Mbit Token Ring networks. (122 lines) 61.02.E Druid - Programming by Demonstration of GUIs The Druid user interface management system is a software development tool that assists the developer in designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for applications and automatically generates the UIL and C or C++ code for the user interface. The developer directly manipulates user interface components (menus, buttons, panels, scales etc) to design the layout of the GUI and then specifies interactive command sequences by using programming by demonstration. Based on this specification, Druid automatically generates the code for the interface. Druid manages the user interface code and enables the developer to rapidly develop and easily modify the user interface. Druid is based on the X window system. (92 lines) 61.03 SMCC Announces TPC-C Results SPARCserver 1000 running the INFORMIX-OnLine 5.01 offers best price/performance among all database servers based on TPC-C. The system achieved 1079.43 transactions per minute (tpm) and $1,038 per tpmC. This is the first TPC-C results reported by Sun. (131 lines) 61.04 SMCC ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF SOLARIS 1.1.1 o Solaris 1.1.1 combines the functionality of the 1.1A and 1.1C releases into a single 1.x release o Customers now have a single 1.x release to deploy and support across platforms supported by the two previous 1.x releases o High quality release with integrated bug fixes o Includes support for the 5-GB 4mm Backup Tape Drive and the 535-MB disk drive o Easy upgrade from Solaris 1.1A and 1.1C (287 lines) 61.05 Just Published from SunSoft Press Two new books "SOLARIS ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE" "MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES:" Also in this article: Ordering information and a description of sunsoftpress@Sun.com, an email service that will return a complete SunSoft Press book catalog. (148 lines) 61.06 Third Party Product Announcements 4 articles, 500 lines 61.06.A AMASS-DataMgr, Hierarchical Storage Management Software AMASS-DataMgr is a powerful and flexible data management environment. It provides both transparent file migration and the ability to directly access optical disk and/or tape libraries. It may be configured for a heterogeneous network of clients and/or servers. AMASS-DataMgr assesses the status of files and, based on the system administrator's criteria, transparently moves the appropriate files to less costly storage such as optical jukeboxes or tape libraries. To the application, migrated files still appear to be present and are transparently retrieved when accessed. (134 lines) 61.06.B SSI/Aurora Token Ring-SNA announcement Systems Strategies Inc., anounced the availability of the first high-speed connectivity solution allowing Solaris 2.2/2.3 users to communicate with IBM mainframes and AS/400s over Token Ring. This is accomplished through the combination of Systems Strategies EXPRESS communications software running over Aurora Technologies' SBus Token Ring Adapter. (73 lines) 61.06.C GraphView 2.0 for Sun Workstations - demo available Cherwell Scientific announces the release of GraphView, a program for plotting data and generating high-quality presentation figures on Sun Workstations. (84) 61.06.D Open Licensing Program for Tivoli Management Framework 2.0 Tivoli Systems announced an open licensing program for the Tivoli Management Framework 2.0, the next generation of its object-oriented systems management framework. The program is designed to meet customers' and computer-industry vendors' demands for a broadly available and affordable systems management platform that conforms to the latest industry standards, including the Object Management Group's CORBA 1.1. (132 lines) 61.07 Amdahl, Ask Group, Oracle Join PWI Effort Several organizations have added their support of the effort to create a Public Windows Interface(PWI), an open standard API that will run Microsoft(R) Windows applications. (146 lines) 61.08 COSE Sysadm Survey for Sun Customers This is a survey from one of SunSoft's COSE representative. If you are a System Administrator or are concerned with the evolution of COSE, please revied the survey and return it to kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM. Please Please Please DO NOT send your compeleted survey to any address other than kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM. DO NOT respond to the poster of this SunFlash article or to the whole mailing list or your local newsgroup (if you read SunFlash in a local newsgroup. -johnj (327 lines) 61.09 Sunergy #8 Satellite Broadcast (with Satellite Coordinates) The Sunergy live, interactive satellite broadcast on Global Information Infrastructures is on Tuesday, January 11, 1994. (179 lines) 61.10 Third Party Product Announcements (5 articles, 536 lines) 61.10.A QA Partner - Automated Software Testing Tool for GUIs QA Partner is a cross-platform, automated software testing tool designed specifically for graphical user interface (GUI) environments. It is based on an object-oriented paradigm that operates on screen controls as logical GUI objects, not screen locations. Test suites created once can be maintained through future releases. QA Partner tests use object names to find and activiate window objects and verify their contents, behaviors and structures. QA Partner support includes GUIs such Motif. (40 lines) 61.10.B RAINBOW: From Proprietary Word Processor to SGML Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. introduced a public technology platform to ease the transition from proprietary word processor data to SGML. Dubbed "Rainbow", the approach specifies a single Document Type Definition (DTD) for representing a wide variety of proprietary word processor data formats. Rainbow supports the first step in the proprietary-to-SGML conversion process in a common, tool-independent manner. (134 lines) 61.10.C TAE Plus, A GUI Builder for Programmers and Non-Programmers Century Computing, Inc. announces the first Commercial release of TAE Plus (v5.3), a UNIX-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) development tool. Originally developed under contract to NASA, TAE Plus has been in active use at hundreds of sites since 1988. TAE Plus was developed with the non-programmer in mind: application developers, human factors specialists, and graphic artists who design and build GUIs, but do not want to learn the details of X or Motif. Our experience is that new users can be building GUIs in a day or two. (76 lines) 61.10.D Informix Announces Informix Dynamic Server Informix Software, Inc. announced INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 6.0, a next-generation database server which incorporates the company's first implementation of its new parallel processing database technology - the Informix Dynamic Scalable Architecture. The INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server is a multithreaded database server designed to address the growing needs of customers who must manage larger, more complex business-critical databases while improving overall system performance and scalability. (128 lines) 61.10.E CAD-system "LOGOCAD" for mechanical construction LOGOCAD is a system for 2D and 3D mechanical drafting, modelling and construction, with a high level of functionality and flexibility. With its rich set of application modules, it covers a wide area of customer specific needs. (69 lines) 61.11 SunNet Manager 2.2 - Simplified installation and configuration - Automated options for data requests - Improved display functions and graphical displays - Simple Network Management Protocol v2 early adaptors' implementation - AnswerBook support (171 lines) 61.12 SunSoft: Distributed Object Interoperability With Microsoft Windows SunSoft announced a development agreement with IONA Technologies to deliver distributed object interoperability across SunSoft's Solaris Distributed Object Environment and Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows NT-based systems. The agreement signifies the first interoperability between two OMG CORBA-conformant Object Request Broker (ORB) implementations (127 lines) 61.13 Sun Licenses SPARCstation LX Board To Chinese Workstation Maker SMCC's SPARC Technology Business (STB) has licensed a high-volume microSPARC(TM)-based board design to Beijing Huasun Computer Company, the largest Chinese manufacturer of computer workstations based on the SPARC(R) architecture. (108 lines) 61.14 Sun User Group Solaris Seminar (Boston, MA, USA) SUG is pleased to announce the first of its series of new UNIX tutorials. The Sun User Group (SUG) has a long tradition of providing informative and timely tutorial sessions as part of our technical conferences. Now, that same expertise has gone into developing a program of intensive one-day seminars to be taught around the country -- and possibly around the world. Tue, Mar 29 "Introduction to Solaris System Administration" Wed, Mar 30 "Advanced Solaris System Administration" (304 lines) 61.15 SunATM & SunFastEthernet SMCC introduces Industry-leading networking solutions, including the lowest-cost, highest-performance ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) network adapter cards from any vendor and the first 100 Mbps Ethernet ("Fast Ethernet") network adapter card available from any computer systems vendor. (163 lines) 61.16 Non-Stop Logistics and Retail Software Vendors NON-STOP Logistics Corporation chooses Sun computers to help implement a sophisticated new concept in grocery distribution. (111 lines) 61.17 SunNews: SunFed Protest, Sun Foundation Grants (2 articles , 175 lines) 61.17.A SunFed Files Protest with GAO SunFed, originally awarded the NSA HPW2 contract, filed a formal protest with the Government Accounting Office (GAO) challenging the rebid of the procurement. (30 lines) 61.17.B Corporate Grants The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., has renewed funding for a successful program that provides electronic assembly job training to low-income, limited-English-speaking immigrants and refugees in the Fremont/Newark area. Other grants were awarded too. (99 lines) 61.18 APT Installs Sun-Based $2.5 Million Data Center SMCC announced that retail industry software vendors that have chosen the Sun platform include Applied Retail Solutions, Epsilon Data Management, Merchandise Management Systems, Richter Management Services, Inc., Sterling Software and NON-STOP Logistics Corp. Advanced Promotion Technologies (APT) {{ hey!, that's one of my customers! -johnj }} recently completed the installation of its new $2.5-million data center for the the capture, storage and analysis of consumer purchase and promotion data. (139 lines) 61.19 HOT OFF THE PRESS (January 1994) Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation's Public Relations' newsletter. Statistics about Sun and its market and news from the Sun 'planets'. STATE OF THE BUSINESS THE OFFICIAL COUNT DID YOU KNOW... MARKET SHARE STATISTICS SUCCESSFUL SUN INSTALLATIONS RECENT INDUSTRY NEWS SunSoft and NeXT Agreement SUN'S MOMENTUM SUNCONNECT HIGHLIGHTS SUN MICROSYSTEMS COMPUTER CORPORATION HIGHLIGHTS SUNEXPRESS HIGHLIGHTS SUNPICS HIGHLIGHTS SUNSELECT HIGHLIGHTS SUNSOFT HIGHLIGHTS SUNSOLUTIONS HIGHLIGHTS RECENT SPARC NEWS CUSTOMER QUOTABLES - Rightsizing at Work (459 lines) 61.20 SMCC Ships 20-way SPARCcenter 2000 SPARCcenter 2000, which leads the industry in three industry-accepted performance areas (AIM multiuser, single system NFS server, database TPC-A) (103 lines) 61.21 Sun's 2nd Quarter, Fiscal Year Results Q2 revenues: $1,131 million (+8%) Q2 net income: $ 43.8 million, or $0.46 per share Q1+Q2 revenues: $2,091 million, up 10% from the same period a year earlier (105 lines) 61.22 Updated Internet Services List (Jan 15 1994) Part 1 of 2 +Chat Service, +Bridge, +Chinese Chess, +Othello, +Distance Education Database, +Backgammon via Email, +Digital's Electronic Internet Connection, +Internet Guides/Docs, +Fax via Internet, +HEART Career Connections, -WWW, +Weekly Trivia, +Cisco Consumer Service, +Anesthesiology Gopher, +Netfind, +FootHills Chat,+Window on State Gov't. (393 lines) 61.22 Updated Internet Services List (Jan 15 1994) Part 2 of 2 +Chat Service, +Bridge, +Chinese Chess, +Othello, +Distance Education Database, +Backgammon via Email, +Digital's Electronic Internet Connection, +Internet Guides/Docs, +Fax via Internet, +HEART Career Connections, -WWW, +Weekly Trivia, +Cisco Consumer Service, +Anesthesiology Gopher, +Netfind, +FootHills Chat,+Window on State Gov't. (473 lines) 61.24 Removal of SPARCserver 600MP Series Systems From Price List Final chance to order SPARCserver 600MP series configured product FINAL ORDER DATE: 4/15/94 FINAL SHIP DATE: 6/30/94 Upgrades and Spares for the SPARCserver 600MP series continue to be available (255 lines) 61.25 New Configurations for the SPARCcenter 2000 - New SPARCcenter 2000 configurations provide increased disk and network performance and capacity - New options increase maximum disk capacity to 678 GB - Maximum capacity of the system cabinet is increased to 52.2 GB (205 lines) 61.26 Price Decreases For DRAM, VRAM, NVRAM Memory X-Options - Lower prices of X164F, 64-MB SIMM and X116F, 16-MB SIMMs for SPARCstation 10 systems still at parity - List price for workstation DSIMM memory is now US$56-72/MB - List price for server DSIMM memory is now US$62-99/MB - 4.3% to 25% price decreases on selected DRAM memory x-options - 33.3% price decreases on selected VRAM and NVRAM x-options (191 lines) 61.27 Online: DiskSuite 2.0.1 - Online: DiskSuite 2.0.1 is a bug-fix only release of this data mirroring and striping software product - Effective February 7, 1994 SMCC will move over completely to Online: DiskSuite 2.0.1 from the 2.0 release - Online: DiskSuite 2.0.1 will be sent to customers with software support contracts (252 lines) 61.28 Sun/TI Announce Collaboration on ATM Technology Texas Instruments and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) agree to collaborate on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology implementations. (143 lines) 61.29 Aggressive New Prices On Mass Storage X-Options Sun maintains its aggressive pricing on mass storage products - Up to 5% list price reduction on 535-MB 3.5-in. disk options - Up to 7% list price reduction on 1.05-GB 3.5-in. disk options - Up to 6% list price reduction on 2.1-GB 5.25-in. disk options - Up to 15% list price reduction on 4mm tape options - Up to 5% list price reduction on 20-GB 4mm Auto-Loader options - Up to 10% list price reduction on SunCD Plus option (197 lines) 61.30 New Differential Fast/Wide SCSI-2 Options Sun's new high capacity, high performance, high quality disk products and new intelligent SCSI controller set a new standard for high performance and low cost per megabyte server storage - New 2.9-GB 5.25-inch Differential Fast/Wide SCSI-2 disk drive - The new Differential Fast/Wide SCSI-2 interface is capable of 20 MB/sec. burst rate (16-bit), - New Host Adapter dramatically reduces CPU overhead - SPARCcenter 2000 now supports 678.6-GB disk capacity - SPARCserver 1000 now supports 139.2-GB disk capacity (372 lines) 61.31 SunPro Makes Five Announcements SunPro has made the following five announcements on, Tuesday, January 25, 1994 regarding new software development products. SMCC will price list these products immediately. (5 articles, 635 lines) 61.31.A SunPro Introduces Integrated Product Suite: SunPro WorkShop SunPro WorkShop is available in three configurations for C, C++ or FORTRAN developers running the Solaris 2 operating environment for SPARC. All suites include SPARCompiler C to ease cross-language development and migration between C and other programming languages. In addition, all SunPro WorkShop suites include the SPARCworks toolset, SPARCworks(TM)/TeamWare code management tools, and the newly-announced SPARCworks(TM)/iMPact multithreaded development tools for creating high-performance applications. SunPro WorkShop for C++ includes the new native version of SPARCompiler C++ and SunPro WorkShop for FORTRAN includes the latest release of SPARCompiler FORTRAN. All SunPro WorkShop products also support integration of other tools through through Tooltalk(R), the COSE standard for intertool communication. (120 lines) 61.31.B SunPro Introduces New Tools For SPARC(r) MultiProcessor Systems SunPro, the software development business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced the availability of SPARCworks(TM)/iMPact, Sun's first multithreaded development tools for SPARC(R) multiprocessor systems running the Solaris(R) 2 operating environment. Available separately or with the new SunPro WorkShop(TM) development suite also announced today, SPARCworks(TM)/iMPact eases the development of performance-critical applications written in C, C++ and FORTRAN. (87 lines) 61.31.C SunPro Introduces Major Enhancements To SPARCworks tools Focused on increasing developer productivity, this release delivers critical development capabilities in a single low cost/high functionality product. Innovative new features include integrated runtime error checking and memory leak detection, Fix and Continue to boost developer productivity and increase application quality, plus a Visual Data Inspector to visualize complex data structures. (108 lines) 61.31.D SunPro Unveils New State-Of-The-Art C++ Compiler SPARCompiler(TM) C++ 4.0 is an all new, state-of-the-art C++ language system for the Solaris 2 operating environment for SPARC. SPARCompiler C++ 4.0, based on new native language processing technology and a completely reengineered object code generator, delivers compilation speeds of up to 300% faster than the previous version of SPARCompiler C++, enabling quicker development and time-to-market for software developers. In addition, a jointly-enhanced version of Rogue Wave Software's de facto standard Tools.h++(TM) class library is now included with SPARCompiler C++ 4.0, providing a full set of reusable C++ classes to improve programmer productivity and code portability. (98 lines) 61.31.E SunPro Extends SPARCworks Ada with MT development Tool SPARCworks(TM)/iMPact Ada 1.0 is a multithreading development tool that extends SPARCworks Professional Ada, SunPro's leading Ada development environment, by linking Ada's multitasking provided by the Solaris(R) 2 operating environment. SPARCworks/iMPact Ada enables Ada tasks to execute under the direct control of Solaris 2, eliminating the need for highly specialized Ada run-times that isolate Ada applications from UNIX(R). (140 lines) 61.32 SunSoft Announces XTL Teleservices for Solaris XTL Teleservices for Solaris is a set of telephony software services and application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow developers to create telephone-based applications and telecommunications hardware. XTL Teleservices reduces the costs for computer telephony integration (CTI) development in business, medical, educational, entertainment, scientific and other environments. (191 lines) 61.33 Sun Introduces Customer Management Solutions The only open computing approach to the many computerized services aimed at delivering customer satisfaction. Sun has teamed with dozens of leading software, telecommunications, system integration and reseller vendors, who are trained and ready to help Sun offer Customer Management Solutions. (193 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