---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Founded December 1988 The Florida SunFlash The SunFlash Monthly Digest: April 1994 SunFlash Digest April 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64.00 The SunFlash Monthly Digest: April 1994 From: John J. McLaughlin, SunFlash Editor A monthly summary of articles posted to the SunFlash mailing list. Articles of interest to the Sun Microsystems community (end-user, developers, admins, ISVs, OEMS, VARS, 1200+ Sun employees, etc) are posted to SunFlash's 140,000+ subscribers. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. A description of SunFlash and instructions on subscribing can be obtained by sending mail to info-sunflash@sun.com -johnj (92 articles, 953 Kb, 20,173 lines - about 306 pages for full text) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents Distribution Options How To Request A SunFlash Article - Example Titles Abstracts SunFlash Email addresses Call For Submissions Popular SunFlash Articles from February, March and April Local Distribution Aliases ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Distribution Options -------------------------------------- I post about 100 SunFlash articles each month. The new 'Abstracts' or digest style articles, such as this one, make it possible for me to post this many articles without drowning everyone in email. However, for those people who want all the articles and are prepared to deal with 100+ articles a month, I have created a new distribution option, Full. This is the first article to be posted to the new Full distribution alias. It took me several weeks to process the flood of requests to be changed from one distribution type to another. Here is a brief description of the various Distribution options: Daily (or direct) - about 1 message per day, including Abstracts type articles - monthly digest Weekly (or indirect) - 1 message per week Monthly - 1 message per month Full (or total or verbose) - all articles. 100+ per month. Often posted in groups of 4 to 10 at a time. - suitable of redistribution via local newsgroups or for local archiving The SunFlash mail headers will indicate which distribution option was used to get SunFlash to you. Note that some mail relaying and some mail-to-news programs drop this information. sunflash-Distribution-Type: Daily or sunflash-Distribution-Type: Weekly or sunflash-Distribution-Type: Full or sunflash-Distribution-Type: Monthly sunflash-Sub-Mailing-List: list name or email address sunflash-Sub-Mailing-List-Requests: email address Please include these headers in all change requests as they help me locate you entry and thus make the requested change. Most people subscribe to the Daily distribution. If you want to have your distribution type changed, please send mail to flash@sun.com. I encourage people to change to the Weekly distribution. The e-mail auto responder works well and by keeping track of which articles are being requested, I get hints about what type of material people find useful. If there are several people at your site who want to subscribe to SunFlash, you make consider creating local distribution aliases. That is, I will send sunflash to an alias at your site and you can locally add/delete/change names in that alias. See the section "Local Distribution Aliases". You may want to suggest to your fellow Sun users who don't subscribe to SunFlash because of the message volume that they may now want to subscribe to the Weekly or Monthly distributions. Please tell your friends and colleagues who have an interest in Sun about SunFlash. Subject: How To Request A SunFlash Article - Example ---------------------------------------------------- To obtain the full text to one or more SunFlash articles, simply send their article numbers to the autoresponse alias flashadm@sun.com. Article numbers consist of the Volume Number and the Issue Number. For example, the article "XvM - for moving from XView to Motif", was the 12th issue of Vol 64 (April 1994), so its article number is 64.12 Separate the article numbers with spaces. For example: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 64.12 64.16 ^D % Place the list articles numbers on the same line as the Subject keyword. Separate article numbers with a space (e.g 64.12 64.16) Use a mail program that prompts for a subject line. e.g. mail under Solaris 1.x and mailx under Solaris 2.x. to make sure that the article numbers are in the subject line and not the message body. If Articles Don't Arrive After a Reasonable Time ------------------------------------------------ I get a number of requests that come from sites that do not have their mail system set up properly. Some requests have their return path or the From: lines mangled as they travel through the net. If you suspect that your requested article is not getting to you because of an email address problem, then resubmit and add the keyword "email-to" in the body of the message: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 email-to foo%bar@name.domain ^D % Replace foo%bar@name.domain with your email address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Article Titles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb lines 64.01 14 361 SPARCprinter II And NeWSprint 2.2 64.02 13 314 Solaris 1.1.1 Version B 64.03 7 142 SunIntegration Services into SunService 64.04 5 98 Cray to Install Sun Systems Worth $5.5M 64.05 7 122 Entergy Chooses Sun 64.06 4 95 Solaris 2.0 and 2.1 Off Pricelist 64.07 9 210 Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.08 3 63 DiskInfo: Analysis Of Network Disk Usage 64.09 3 43 FirstScan II Image Capture For Solaris 2 64.10 3 62 Aurora: Solaris 2 External Floppy Drives 64.11 3 56 A Multithreaded Application from Vantage 64.12 3 108 XvM - for moving from XView to Motif 64.13 2 46 A Graphical Contact Management 64.14 5 127 dBASE IV v2.0 for UNIX announcement 64.15 6 148 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.16 4 83 Sun Microsystems Reports Q3 Earnings 64.17 8 157 SunSoft, NeXT In OpenStep Initiative 64.18 8 156 Netware Compatibility for Solaris 64.19 11 206 SunSoft Debuts Solaris 2.4 64.20 7 120 Solaris: UNIX Platform Of Choice 64.21 6 106 Roadmap For Solaris Distributed Objects 64.22 8 143 Latin American Stock Exchanges and Sun 64.23 6 112 Enterprise Computing Summit at Moscone 64.24 7 143 SunSoft: NetWorker for Solaris 64.25 9 198 Sun: Details of Third Quarter Results 64.26 15 329 SunPics Announces SPARCprinter II 64.27 7 131 STB Exhibits at Solutions Fair 64.28 7 134 SunConnect, Network Peripherals 64.29 6 120 Trusted Solaris 1.1 64.30 6 118 Solaris and MS-Windows, DOS, MAC Apps 64.31 7 125 Solaris x86 Key To Big SunSoft Wins 64.32 14 314 Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.33 5 100 Sun to Support New IEEE Standard 64.34 12 194 April 1 HPCwire Table of Contents 64.35 12 206 April 8 HPCwire Table of Contents 64.36 22 485 The Internet Mall [01 Apr, 94] 64.37 47 897 Internet Services List (4/1/94) 64.38 4 93 CERT Advisory - SunOS /usr/ucb/rdist 64.39 27 472 CERT Advisory - MD5 Checksums 64.40 8 209 Non-Sun Information Article Abstracts 64.41 2 50 The OpenLook Migration Kit from ICS 64.42 9 185 Software through Pictures (StP/SE) 5.0 64.43 5 109 Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog 64.44 13 255 Tivoli Management Environment (TME) 2.0 64.45 10 194 Network, Systems and DB Management 64.46 10 207 End-User Tools For Enterprise Data Access 64.47 5 97 Reliable Live Backup Of Active Networks 64.48 22 526 GraphicVUE: Project Management Guide 64.49 26 648 SoftNet - Novell/UNIX Interoperabilty 64.50 10 242 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.51 12 199 April 15 HPCwire Table of Contents 64.52 29 589 Sun's Hottest Volume 4 Number 2 64.53 8 142 SMCC Unveils New Reseller Programs 64.54 6 114 Sun Expands Scottish Facility 64.55 5 96 Book: ToolTalk and Open Protocols 64.56 5 82 SunExpress Adds New Portables 64.57 5 98 SunExpress And RDI SPARC Notebook 64.58 5 95 SPARCbook 3 Family From SunExpress 64.59 7 174 Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.60 20 499 Sunergy Newsletter #14 Part 1 of 2 64.61 27 564 Sunergy Newsletter #14 Part 2 of 2 64.62 5 105 uShare: Makes UNIX AppleShare Server 64.63 6 119 Mosaic Server Product Announcement 64.64 5 114 Real-Time / Comm CASE Tool 64.65 3 64 BudTool 4.2 64.66 6 119 DawnTools TT++ and CDEM++ C++ Class 64.67 7 130 MAINSOFT AGREEMENT WITH MICROSOFT 64.68 4 75 SMARTsystem - large bodies of C code 64.69 4 85 Microplex Multi-protocol Print Server 64.70 8 183 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.71 5 88 Sun Information Available on Mosaic 64.72 6 138 Grapic View Of Information Warehouse 64.73 6 109 Iona, Isis To Deliver Orbix on Isis 64.74 5 91 IONA Releases Orbix Version 1.2 64.75 7 170 ScreenPlay 2.1 MultiMedia Software 64.76 9 179 Port Code bewteen UNIX and NT 64.77 3 72 ShowCASE implements Booch Method 64.78 7 146 Integration with Oracle and UNIFACE 64.79 3 61 NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer 64.80 3 65 SecurePrint for Solaris 2.x 64.81 9 207 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.82 9 295 Advanced Systems TOC: May 1994 64.83 9 248 SUG 1994 CD-ROM for Solaris 2.2 64.84 11 186 HPCwire Table of Contents: April 22 64.85 47 904 Updated Internet Services List (4/15/94) 64.86 26 552 The Internet Mall [15 Apr, 94] 64.87 29 576 RISKS DIGEST 15.78 64.88 5 97 INTERNET SHOPPING NETWORK 64.89 5 121 SBUS PRODUCT DIRECTORY 64.90 9 218 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 64.91 9 180 Sun & Fujitsu Strengthen Relationship 64.92 5 98 Trusted Solaris Chosen by Oracle 64.d1 19 468 Weekly Digest Apr 4 to Apr 10 1994 64.d2 35 840 Weekly Digest Apr 11 to Apr 17 1994 64.d3 23 559 Weekly Digest Apr 18 to Apr 24 1994 Totals:953 20173 60.00 December 1993 SunFlash Monthly Digest 61.00 January 1994 SunFlash Monthly Digest 62.00 February 1994 SunFlash Monthly Digest 63.00 March 1994 SunFlash Monthly Digest 64.00 April 1994 SunFlash Monthly Digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Abstracts of SunFlash Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64.01 SPARCprinter II Printer And Unbundled NeWSprint 2.2 The SPARCprinter(TM) II printer is a follow-on printer to the original SPARCprinter. It delivers a new look and additional features that competitively position Sun's low-end monochrome workgroup printer solution. In a compact package, the SPARCprinter II delivers a reliable, affordable, and flexible printing solution to complement Sun systems. Key advantages of the SPARCprinter II versus original SPARCprinter: * Energy Star compliance * 600 dots-per inch (dpi) printing and Image Smoothing * 500 sheet feeder option * Duplex (double-sided) printing option * Parallel port support * Toner cartridge recycling program Sun is also offering the latest printing software technology for the Solaris(R) 1.x platform, NeWSprint(TM) 2.2 software. NeWSprint 2.2 includes support for SPARCprinter II and AnswerBook(TM) online documentation. With this anouncement NeWSprint 2.1 is being transitioned from the price list and is being replaced with NeWSprint 2.2. The latest revision of NeWSprint software for Solaris 2 is Newsprint 2.5. (361 lines) 64.02 English And International Solaris 1.1.1 Version B o New default 1.x release shipping at first customer ship replaces the earlier Solaris 1.1.1 release and the localized 1.1A and 1.1C releases o Supports SPARCstation 10 systems shipping in March with the SuperSPARC revision 3.5 processor o Supports all configurations supported with the earlier Solaris 1.1.1 release and is fully compatible with previous 1.x releases o English and localized Japanese, Korean, Chinese (China) and Chinese (Taiwan), European (French, German, Italian and Swedish releases) are available o All customers (with or without a software support contract) who received the earlier release of 1.1.1 will automatically receive 1.1.1 Version B (314 lines) 64.03 SunIntegration Services Incorporated into SunService SunService announced the incorporation of SunIntegration Services into its organization and the availability of six new architecture and information technology consulting services for Sun customers seeking to establish a rapid and smooth transition to a client/server architecture. The addition of SunIntegration Services and this new portfolio will help customers earlier in the rightsizing process: from planning and implementing a move to client/server, to supporting and enhancing hardware and software on the distributed network. The services are focused for customers who, having made the decision to rightsize, need to quickly take the next steps required to develop and implement a successful architecture. The new service portfolio includes: * Open Systems Diagnostics * IT Competitive Advantage * Strategic Architecture Design * Migration Planning * Rapid Prototyping * Rapid Process Re-engineering (142 lines) 64.04 Cray to Install Sun Systems Worth $5.5 Million Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that Cray Research has selected more than 760 Sun workstations and servers to upgrade its existing computing environment in a variety of departments, including software development, customer service, training and distribution. The installation features 738 SPARCstation(TM) 5 desktops, SMCC's new mid-range workstation unveiled today, and 22 SPARCserver(TM) 1000 systems, which offer industry-leading price/performance among database servers. The Sun systems are valued at $5.5 million (U.S.). (98 lines) 64.05 Entergy Chooses Sun Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) announced today that it will furnish computers to Entergy, one of the five largest electric utilities companies in the United States. Entergy has chosen Sun(R) SPARCcenter(TM) and SPARCserver(TM) systems running the Solaris(R) operating environment as the foundation to support its corporate-wide business applications, including financials, work management, and customer information systems. (122 lines) 64.06 Removal of Solaris 2.0 and 2.1 From Price List Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) is initiating the transition of Solaris(R) 2.0 and Solaris 2.1 operating environments. This includes all media, documentation, source localizations and other Solaris 2.0 or Solaris 2.1 products. Service and support will be provided according to standard Sun policy. (95 lines) 64.07 Sun Information/Product Abstracts & Distribution Options This article contains brief descriptions of several Sun announcements. -johnj (6 articles, 50Kb, 1132 lines - about 17 US pages) 64.08 DiskInfo From PDC Offers Simple Analysis Of Network Disk Usage From: westdr@pa.pdc.com (David West - PDC HQ) DiskInfo 1.1 gives system administrators a method to quickly categorize disk usage across a heterogeneous UNIX network. DiskInfo 1.1 will graphically categorize files by owner, size, access time and file type to help determine how much data should be archived or migrated to near-line or off-line storage. (63 lines) 64.09 Aurora's FirstScan II Image Capture For Solaris 2 From: balasco@auratek.com (Alfred P. Balasco) Software links the latest Sun systems to HP II series scanners making image libraries available to workgroups for documents and presentations. (43 lines) 64.10 Aurora Adds Solaris 2 Support For External Floppy Drives From: balasco@auratek.com (Alfred P. Balasco) Aurora Technologies has added Solaris 2.X compatibility to its DataMaster series of SPARC system external floppy drives. The new software drivers give users of the latest Sun workstations and servers access to additional storage media for file sharing and application installation. DataMaster models supports 3.5" and 5.25" floppy diskettes with direct Solaris and PC media and format compatibility. (62 lines) 64.11 SpeedWave/MT - A Multithreaded Application from Vantage From: James Cardwell 510-659-0901 Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation in conjunction with Vantage Analysis Systems, a ViewLogic Company, unveiled the first multithreaded product to fully utilize multithreading and multiprocessor technology (MT/MP). Specifically, Vantage will offer its SpeedWave/MT product, which has demonstrated more than a 300 percent simulation performance improvement for SMCC's family of multiprocessor workstations and servers. (56 lines) 64.12 XvM - API-level porting solution for moving from XView to Motif From: info@qualix.com XvM recodes the XView library to make calls to the Motif library. The result is an implementation of XView that allows the user to recompile and relink their XView applications to create Motif applications. (108 lines) 64.13 Address Minder: A Graphical Contact Management From: asr@gate.net (Eugene Lunsford) Address Minder is a graphical contact management program developed for the networked workstation environment. Address Minder uses the Client-Server paradigm and runs under SunOS or Solaris 2.x with the OpenLOOK or Motif Graphical User Interface. (46 lines) 64.14 dBASE IV v2.0 for UNIX announcement From: lisac@qualix.com (Lisa Cadungug) NEW VERSION! Now dBASE IV is better than ever! Take advantage of the power, flexibility and PC-level ease of use that has made dBASE one of the most widely used PC data management system. (127 lines) 64.15 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts & Distribution Options This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun announcements. -johnj (7 articles, 22Kb, 505 lines - about 8 US pages) 64.16 Sun Microsystems Reports Third Quarter Earnings Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced that net income for the quarter ended March 27, 1994, was $57.5 million, compared with $51.7 million in the third fiscal quarter a year ago. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.60, compared with $0.47 in the year-ago period. Revenues for the quarter were $1.196 billion, compared with $1.141 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 1993. (83 lines) 64.17 SunSoft And NeXT Reach First Milestone In OpenStep Initiative SunSoft, Inc., and NeXT Computer, Inc., announced the availability of the OpenStep Developer Starter Kit, the development environment for OpenStep, the industry's first volume, object-oriented standard. The OpenStep Developer Starter Kit marks the first milestone in the SunSoft-NeXT joint relationship announced late last year. Introduced at the Solaris Developer Conference, the OpenStep Developer Starter Kit is available immediately from SunSoft. (157 lines) 64.18 SunSoft Announces Netware Compatibility for Solaris SunSoft introduced a new suite of products that establishes Solaris, the industry's leading 32-bit UNIX operating environment, as the applications server of choice for NetWare LANs. This new product suite delivers to NetWare users the key benefits of the powerful Solaris environment including access to large-scale, mission-critical applications, symmetric multiprocessing and superior scalability. This means that IS managers can leverage Solaris to extend their capablities beyond the simple file and print services provided by NetWare today, without making changes to their existing NetWare clients. (156 lines) 64.19 SunSoft Debuts Newest Version Of Solaris 2 SunSoft, Inc. unveiled its upcoming release of Solaris 2 for SPARC, x86 and Pentium processors. The new release, called Solaris 2.4, is a feature-for-feature compatible product for both SPARC and Intel platforms and is derived from a single source base -- a first in the UNIX industry. SunSoft has created the most powerful Intel-based system software environment available to the marketplace, by providing all of the power, scalability and features historically available only to high-end RISC systems to the x86 platform. This new release was demonstrated and delivered to 2,000 developers, OEMs and customers at the company's third annual Solaris Developer Conference. (206 lines) 64.20 Solaris Continues Momentum As UNIX Platform Of Choice SunSoft Inc. announced that there are now nearly 8,800 applications available for Solaris, the industry's leading UNIX operating environment. Nearly 2,500 applications are shipping today for Solaris 2 on SPARC -- a 300 percent increase from a year ago. And, nearly 2,000 more applications are currently being ported and tested. Currently, more than 850 applications are shipping or being tested for Solaris x86. The company also announced that the industry's leading database vendors are making their products available on Solaris x86: Oracle Corporation, Informix Software, Inc., Progress Software, The ASK Group and Borland International, Inc. This announcement was made in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 customers, OEMs and developers at the company's third annual Solaris Developer Conference. (120 lines) 64.21 SunSoft Unveils Roadmap For Solaris Distributed Objects SunSoft, Inc. revealed its roadmap for the delivery of Project DOE (Distributed Object Environment), the industry's first mainstream, distributed object environment based on Object Management Group (OMG) standards for corporate developers and end users. SunSoft plans to deliver the first release of Project DOE in early 1995, which will bring distributed object capability to the Solaris system software solution. The DOE environment will significantly reduce the overall cost of software development and management through the use of "snap-together" software components, or objects, to create large-scale, distributed, mission-critical applications. (106 lines) 64.22 Two Latin American Stock Exchanges Choose Sun The Chile and Costa Rica electronic stock exchanges will be among the first in Latin America to automate their trading floors with advanced computer technology. Both exchanges have selected low-cost, high-performance workstations from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC). These exchanges will be automated with more than 100 SPARCstation computers and a SPARCserver 1000 system running the Solaris distributed computing environment. (143 lines) 64.23 Enterprise Computing Summit at Moscone Sun commandeered the Moscone Center (San Francisco, CA) for the week of April 5 to demonstrate its unique vision for enterprise computing, reinforcing its position as a leader in the $19.6 billion UNIX(R) systems marketplace*. A sold-out crowd attended the SMCC Enterprise Computing Summit, which demonstrated how Sun's newest products serve the entire corporate computing market. The foundation for Sun's vision and delivery of solutions today is its 12-year legacy of open, network computing, a key differentiator from PC-based solutions and offering many advantages over centralized mainframe/minicomputer environments. (*) Dataquest, total UNIX preliminary factory revenue (excluding PCs) for calendar year 1993. (112 lines) 64.24 SunSoft Introduces Solaris Enterprise Data Management Products NetWorker for Solaris -- Addresses Growing Data Management Crisis SunSoft, Inc. introduced NetWorker for Solaris, a heterogeneous backup product that extends the company's robust array of data management technologies. NetWorker for Solaris, based on Legato Systems' award-winning NetWorker software, provides a suite of backup, recovery and archiving features for users of Solaris, NetWare, PCs and UNIX platforms. Solaris data management capabilities help IS managers and end users easily organize, access, store and recover critical information located across the enterprise. This announcement was made in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 developers, OEMs and customers at the Solaris Developer Conference. (143 lines) 64.25 Sun Microsystems Reports Details of Third Quarter Results Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ:SUNW) reported revenues of $1.196 billion, up 5 percent from the $1.141 billion reported for the corresponding period of fiscal 1993. Net income for the third quarter was $57.5 million, or $0.60 per share, compared with $51.7 million, or $0.47 per share, for the same period a year ago. The company's computer systems subsidiary, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, shipped more than 67 thousand systems. SunSoft, Inc., the company's system software subsidiary, distributed 91 thousand Solaris(R) and UNIX(R) licenses. (198 lines) 64.26 SunPics Announces SPARCprinter II SunPics, the printing and imaging business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., introduced SPARCprinter(TM) II, a feature-packed network printer that offers the best price/performance available for entry-level Sun(R) workgroups. SPARCprinter II builds on the original SPARCprinter design, Sun's best-selling printer for Sun environments. The new laser printer offers a complete package of features for demanding workgroups, including an advanced print engine from Lexmark(TM) International, Inc., 600 x 600 dot-per-inch (dpi) resolution, 12 page-per-minute rated production speed, image smoothing, PostScript(TM) language compatibility, and a 500-page feeder tray option. It also conserves power and resources with an Energy Star-compliant rating and a customer-installable duplex printing option for two-sided printing. (329 lines) 64.27 STB Exhibits at Solutions Fair in San Francisco SPARC Technology Business (STB) announced that Codonics, Inc., Cray Research Systems, GNP Computers and Opus Systems will demonstrate various products, all based on SPARC(R) technology, at the first ever Solutions Fair to be held April 5 - 7, 1994, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The Solutions Fair will feature some of the most innovative technologies being developed for enterprise computing by Sun and more than 150 of Sun's key partners. (yes, this has happened already and as I was there, I couldn't get the SunFlash out until now. -johnj) (131 lines) 64.28 SunConnect, Network Peripherals Joint Agreement Provides complete, high-performance FDDI solutions for SPARC SunConnect announced it has entered into a development agreement with Network Peripherals Inc. to deliver high-performance FDDI network solutions for the SPARC platform. The new agreement is aimed at providing Sun system users with broader, more cost-effective ways to leverage FDDI technology for high-speed, bandwidth-intensive applications such as multimedia, CAD/CAM, factory automation, and enterprise network backbones. (134 lines) 64.29 Sun Federal Introduces Trusted Solaris 1.1 Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. introduced Trusted Solaris(tm) 1.1, the second release of Sun's distributed, secure operating environment for networked computer systems. Trusted Solaris 1.1 meets relevant security standards (NCSC B1 and DIA CMW requirements), as well as applicable industry standards including the OPEN LOOK(R) Graphical User Interface, MaxSix (tm) and SPARC(R) ABI. It is the only distributed operating system for which network security is being evaluated by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States; and in the United Kingdom, it is being tested against the Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC). Competitive products are being evaluated only as stand-alone systems. (120 lines) 64.30 SunSoft introduces Wabi 1.1. Solaris to support MAE SunSoft, Inc introduced Wabi 1.1, an enhanced version of its popular Wabi technology which enables users to run Microsoft Windows applications on the Solaris software environment without compromising performance. SunSoft also introduced Merge for Solaris which offers MS-DOS-application support for the Solaris x86 software environment. In addition to MS-Windows and MS-DOS, Solaris also will support Macintosh applications through the Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) offered by Apple Computer. The three products, shown at the third annual Solaris Developer Conference being held in San Francisco this week, create a complete PC-Macintosh desktop environment for Solaris SPARC- and Solaris x86-based systems. (118 lines) 64.31 Solaris x86 Key To Big SunSoft Wins Worldwide SunSoft, Inc. announced three new wins for its Solaris x86 operating environment. The Oberfinanzdirektion (OFD) of Lower Saxony, one of Germany's tax authorities, has chosen Solaris x86 to run on 8,800 Siemens-Nixdorf desktop systems, in 68 tax offices throughout the Lower Saxony region. This was the largest procurement of its type in Germany in recent years. In addition, the Australian Army has just chosen Solaris x86 for 500 installations, where it will be bundled with a range of commercial, off-the-shelf software packages, giving all Army locations a standard office software environment. Solaris is expected to be installed in all Army sites over the next five years. (125 lines) 64.32 Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Sun announcements. I'm sorry that I've had to bunch so many Sun announcements together in this abstract. As I was in CA attending a Sun event and the Solaris Devlopers Conference, it was hard to keep up with producing SunFlash. For the same reason, I have not processed many of your requests to moved to the weekly, monthly or full distributions lists. All requests will be processed in the next week or so. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space seperated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. Please try to place the article numbers in the Subject line, not in the message body. Articles that are of the correct format will be answered quickly by a program. I will eventually answer all others. If the autoresponder does not respond to your requests within a reasonable time - please resubmit and include in the body of your email request email-to followed by your email address. -johnj (13 articles, 102Kb, 1985 lines - about 31 US pages) 64.33 Sun to Support New IEEE Standard 1754-1994 (32-bit microprocessor) SPARC Technology Business (STB) announced its intention that future Sun systems and software products based on the SPARC(R) RISC architecture will conform to the new IEEE Standard 1754-1994 32-bit microprocessor architecture. IEEE Std. 1754 was approved as an IEEE standard on March 17th, after a four year effort. 1754 is the first -- and so far only -- microprocessor architecture standard developed by the IEEE. (100 lines) 64.34 HPCwire Table of Contents: April 1 From news@hpcwire.ans.net HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. (194 lines) 64.35 HPCwire Table of Contents: April 8 From news@hpcwire.ans.net HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. (206 lines) 64.36 The Internet Mall: Shopping the Information Highway [01 Apr, 94] From: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor) A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet Maintained by Dave Taylor O'Reilly has just released the long-anticipated second edition of Ed Krol's critically acclaimed and bestselling guide to the Internet. They believe that this new edition is a significant event for it captures (as well as any book about something as dynamic as the Internet) the present state of Internet's tools and resources. (109 lines) 64.44 Tivoli Management Environment (TME) 2.0 Release From: Blanc & Otus <0005050631@mcimail.com> Tivoli Systems, Inc., a leading vendor of client/server systems management solutions, today announced Version 2.0 of the Tivoli Management Environment (TME) has been designed to manage large, geographically distributed, enterprise-wide client/server systems. Frank Moss, Tivoli president and CEO, commented, "Companies deploying client/server applications on systems in multiple locations face a unique set of management challenges. Ensuring consistency of applications, data and resources across many sites is key to avoiding many of the problems inherent in distributed client/server environments. Also, the operations staff must be able to identify, isolate and address those problems that do occur in these environments in a timely and proactive manner. Our customers tell us that delivering mainframe-type service levels -- without losing control of management costs -- is what they need to make client/server deployments pay off. We have spent the last two years developing TME 2.0 specifically for these environments." (255 lines) 64.45 Tivoli To Integrate Network, Systems and Database Management From: Blanc & Otus <0005050631@mcimail.com> Supports management products from IBM, SunConnect, HP, Novell, Microsoft, Sybase, Oracle and others. Tivoli Systems, Inc., a leading vendor of client/server systems management solutions, today announced the Tivoli/Enterprise Console, the first centralized, event-based operations management system to integrate the management of systems, networks and databases.The Tivoli/Enterprise Console is the core of Tivoli's event-based operations management applications, announced today as part of Version 2.0 of the Tivoli Management Environment (TME). (194 lines) 64.46 Uniface: End-User Tools For Enterprise Data Access Uniface Corp. announced the availability of the Uniface Personal Series for end-users and application developers who need to access corporate database information and create a wide range of reports. The new series of data retrieval and reporting tools include: o Uniface Personal Query for transparently accessing data from database management systems (DBMSs) and incorporating the information into reports; o Uniface Personal Access for transparently accessing data from DBMSs and transferring the information into personal productivity applications like Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect and Word for Windows; o Uniface Business Graphics for visually representing information in formats like X-Y graphs and pie-charts. (207 lines) 64.47 "FreezeFrame" For Reliable Live Backup Of Active Networks From: westdr@pa.pdc.com (David West - PDC HQ) PDC has announced the immediate availability of FreezeFrame 2.0, a non-proprietary software product that permits live, accurate backup across heterogeneous UNIX networks, even while users continue to modify files. (97 lines) 64.48 ACCENT GraphicVUE: Project Management Resource Guide From: info@nis.com Enclosed is a detailed Project Management Resource Guide which provides information about using a project management tool and the product, ACCENT GraphicVUE: Project Management Resource Guide --------------------------------- o GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ACCENT GraphicVUE o BENEFITS OF ACCENT GraphicVUE o HOW MUCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT DO YOU REALLY NEED TO REMAIN COMPETITIVE? o PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE BUYER'S CHECK LIST o FREE PROJECT MANAGEMENT GLOSSARY AVAILABLE o NETWORKED WORKSTATIONS SUPPORT DISTRIBUTED PLANNING o WHEN TO USE THE MULTIPLE-PROJECT AND/OR SUBPROJECT MODELS? o ACCENT GraphicVUE ORDERING INFORMATION AND PRICING o ACCENT GraphicVUE ORDER FORM info@nis.com can also be used to obtain more information including a free project management glossary and some white papers ( "Why Manage Projects on Open Systems?" and "When Should You Manage Projects with the Multiple-Project and/or Subproject Models?") (526 lines) 64.49 SoftNet - Novell/UNIX Interoperabilty Products From: jal@puzzle.com SoftNet products are designed for those wishing to integrate UNIX platforms into existing NetWare environments and allow fast, seamless, UNIX/Novell interoperability. The product families are designed around three major design goals: 1) fast performance, 2) ease of installation/seamlessness, and 3) maintenance of existing UNIX and Novell administrative practices. There are three SoftNet family members: SoftNet Utilities: NetWare 2.2, 3.11 and 3.12 SERVER emulator SoftNet NFS: brings NFS to PC Novell Servers SoftNet Client: NetWare CLIENT emulator for UNIX (648 lines) 64.50 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space seperated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (9 articles, 102Kb, 2271 lines - about 34 US pages) 64.51 HPCwire Table of Contents: April 15 From news@hpcwire.ans.net HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. (206 lines) 64.52 Sun's Hottest Volume 4 Number 2 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 (589 lines) 64.53 SMCC Unveils New Reseller Programs Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation's (SMCC) reseller organization in the United States recently introduced a number of new channel programs that will simplify and increase reseller sales. These include a leasing program available to resellers offered through Sun Microsystems Finance, Inc., contract guarantee insurance, a campus representative program and a support package. Please note that these programs are only available to resellers in the United States. (142 lines) 64.54 Sun Expands Scottish Facility (Well, I was looking for something to do this summer during my over-due vacation to visit my family in Scotland. You can expect some SunFlashes 'live' from Linlithgow, Scotland ! -johnj) Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) has expanded its manufacturing facility in Linlithgow, Scotland, by approximately 50 percent, the company announced today. With the 77,000-square-foot addition, SMCC's investment in its plant in Scotland's "Silicon Glen" now totals $62 million. One hundred additional workers have been added to the enlarged plant, for a total of 450. This is the company's third manufacturing and supply facility and the first outside the United States. It was opened in September 1990. (114 lines) 64.55 NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED: ToolTalk and Open Protocols From: Karin.Ellison@Eng.Sun.COM Just Published from SunSoft Press TOOLTALK AND OPEN PROTOCOLS: Inter-Application Communication by Astrid M. Julienne and Brian Holtz A SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall book Paper, 343 pages; ISBN 0-13-031055-7 $36.00 U.S. suggested list price This book discusses how to design, write, and implement open protocols and includes examples using the ToolTalk messaging service. The book discusses both procedural and object-oriented protocols in detail. The procedural protocol examples emphasize using the ToolTalk standard message sets; the object-oriented protocol examples emphasize the ToolTalk object system. (96 lines) 64.56 SunExpress Adds New Portable Workstations With the addition of the two newest entries to the SPARC-based notebook market, SunExpress has taken the lead in offering system users a strong field of products to meet virtually any mobile workstation computing need. On March 23, SunExpress, Inc., a direct marketing subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced that it would carry Tadpole Technology's SPARCbook 3, the new family of workstation-class notebook computers which carries on the innovation established by predecessor SPARCbook 2. Now SunExpress has been named exclusive North America telesales distributor for PowerLite, RDI Computer Corporation's new portable workstation, which delivers workstation level compatibility with complete mobility. (82 lines) 64.57 SunExpress Is North American Distributor For RDI SPARC Notebook Exclusive North America telesales distribution rights for the PowerLite "workbook," a powerful new SPARC-based portable workstation from RDIR Computer Corporation, have been awarded to SunExpress, Inc., a direct marketing subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Additional product information is also available through FAXInfo, the SunExpress 24-hour service providing data and specifications via facsimile, 800-873-7869, then press 3. (98 lines) 64.58 SPARCbook 3 Family Now Available Through SunExpress SunExpress has added Tadpole Technology's new SPARCbook 3 family of upgradable workstation-class notebook computers to its growing portable computing product line, effective today. (95 lines) 64.59 Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Sun Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (6 articles, 34Kb, 627 lines - about 1- US pages) 64.60 Sunergy Newsletter #14 (April, 1994) Part 1 of 2 From Vicki.Pedretti@Corp.Sun.COM Sunergy is a program designed to inform and educate computer users worldwide. Sunergy brings the great minds of the world to its audience through satellite television broadcasts, electronic newsletters and a library of whitepapers and other associated online documents. In the coming weeks, Sunergy will be accessible through the Mosaic network browser. Sunergy broadcasts are now being downlinked by over 1000 sites in over 40 countries. The broadcasts raise awareness of new technologies in existing, new and emerging markets. (( The Sunergy group also produce this great newsletter. Note that I have dropped a couple of parts that have already been posted to SunFlash. You can send for back isues of SunFlash by placing the vol.issue number in the subject line of mail to flashadm@sun.com -johnj )) *1* Broadcast Summary Sunergy #9 Satellite Broadcast *2* Upcoming Broadcasts *3* Tech Tips and Ideas (499 lines) 64.61 Sunergy Newsletter #14 (April, 1994) Part 2 of 2 From Vicki.Pedretti@Corp.Sun.COM Sunergy is a program designed to inform and educate computer users worldwide. Sunergy brings the great minds of the world to its audience through satellite television broadcasts, electronic newsletters and a library of whitepapers and other associated online documents. In the coming weeks, Sunergy will be accessible through the Mosaic network browser. Sunergy broadcasts are now being downlinked by over 1000 sites in over 40 countries. The broadcasts raise awareness of new technologies in existing, new and emerging markets. (( The Sunergy group also produce this great newsletter. Note that I have dropped a couple of parts that have already been posted to SunFlash. You can send for back isues of SunFlash by placing the vol.issue number in the subject line of mail to flashadm@sun.com -johnj )) *4* Advanced Systems Magazine Excerpt: "When Enough is Not Enough" *5* Internet Services List (64.37 Internet Services List (4/1/94) *6* Of Interest from Sun -Information Highway Pilot Projects (SunFlash 63.67 Sun Chosen for "Information Highway" Projects) -Fast Ethernet Seminar Series (SunFlash 63.91 Fast Ethernet Alliance Sponsors Seminar Series) *7* SMCC Announcements (SunFlash 63.60 SMCC Introduces SPARCstation Voyager) (SunFlash 63.69 SPARCstorage Array Model 100 Series) (SunFlash 63.101 Sun Introduces Two New Desktop Families SPARCstation 5 and SPARCstation 20) *8* O'Reilly & Associates *9* Sunergy Update *10* Sunergy ftp site login instructions *11* Sunergy enrollment and contact info (564 lines) 64.62 uShare 4.0 Turns UNIX Systems into AppleShare Servers From: info@iptech.com (Olivia Favela) Information Presentation Technologies, ("IPT") announced that its uShare 4.0 file sharing software for Macintosh and UNIX connectivity is now available. uShare 4.0 offers significant product enhancements and full AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) version 2.1 compatibility. (105 lines) 64.63 Mosaic Server Product Announcement - Personal Library Software From: Adrienne Griffith Personal Library Software (PLS) announced that it has developed an Internet server version of its industry-leading information search engine. The new product, PLServer(TM), works with Mosaic, the ubiquitous interface to the World Wide Web. PLServer allows individuals and organizations to publish their information over the net at affordable prices, using technology that was available previously only to large commercial publishers. (119 lines) 64.64 Bayfront Technologies Real-Time / Comm CASE Tool From: neighbrs@netcom.com (James M. Neighbors) Bayfront Technologies, Inc. has introduced a set of Computer-Aided Protocol Engineering (CAPE) software design, implementation and test tools. Bayfront CAPE Tools can capture the design and implement any software system that uses protocols, state machines or timed control. This important class of systems includes communications, transaction processing, distributed processing, real-time control, process control, client/server and operating systems. Bayfront CAPE Tools provide software designers with more power than general CASE tools because the concepts of the problem area such as timers, events and messages are built into the tools. (114 lines) 64.65 BudTool 4.2 From: westdr@pa.pdc.com (David West - PDC HQ) PDC has announced the availability of the newest version of BudTool, the leading UNIX network backup and retrieval product, originally introduced and marketed by Delta Microsystems. (64 lines) 64.66 DawnTools TT++ and CDEM++ -- C++ Class Libraries for ITC From: dti@netcom.com (Dawn Technologies) Dawn Technologies, Inc. introduced at Uniforum in San Francisco the new DawnTools product line of C++ class libraries. The initial two offerings are DawnTools TT++ and DawnTools CDEM++ which provide object-oriented interfaces for the inter-tool communication standards adopted by the Unix COSE (Common Operating System Environment) standardization effort. (119 lines) 64.67 MAINSOFT SIGNS LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH MICROSOFT License makes the Windows API a "universal" standard for multiple computing platforms MainSoft Corporation announced that it has signed a license agreement with Microsoft for the Windows libraries for Unix. Under the terms of this multi-year agreement, MainSoft can incorporate source code for current and future Windows technology into its cross development tools. (130 lines) 64.68 SMARTsystem - Understanding your large bodies of C code From: sheilaprocase.com (Sheila Moghnsbocker) SMARTsystem specializes in analysis and comprehension of very large bodies of C code. Unlike other products, SMARTsystem can analyze upwards of 1 million lines of code, and can handle code that won't compile successfully, incomplete systems, or code targeted for other hardware platforms or embedded systems. SMARTsystem excels at helping programmers and managers understand and fix large amounts of unfamiliar C source code by graphically displaying code structure, providing information about errors and dependencies and performing impact analysis. (75 lines) 64.69 Microplex M202 Multi-protocol Print Server From: info@microplex.com (Steve Balaban) Microplex Systems Ltd. announces the release of the M202 multi-port multi-protocol print server. The M202 is the first print server to offer advanced security and management features while increasing the functionality and usability of printers. It provides simultaneous Berkeley "lpd" printing support for SunOS users and Sys V "lp" support for printing remotely in Solaris environments. (85 lines) 64.70 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (8 articles, 40 Kb, 811 lines - about 13 US pages) 64.71 Sun Information Available on Mosaic Sun Microsystems, Inc. opened its own on-ramp to the Information Superhighway, unveiling its entire product line on the Internet in a multimedia, interactive format. Computer users can now access information about all Sun products, services and related information simply by pointing and clicking the mouse button. (Check out "http://www.sun.com" with mosaic. It's cool! Try the index for keywork searching. -johnj) (71 lines) 64.72 IRE Delivers Grapic View Of Your Information Warehouse From: john@mss.com (John R. Tersigni - Managing Principal) Mercantile Software Systems' mission is to continue to provide the next generation decision support technology platform which enables users to access mission critical business information at unprecedented rates of speed and functionality, creating the gateway to the Information Warehouse of the 90s and beyond. The Information Retrieval Engine (IRE) is designed to address the needs of executives and managers who require on-line systems that provide extremely fast response times to complex queries over a huge base of information. (138 lines) 64.73 Iona And Isis To Deliver Orbix on Isis From: Colin Newman Agreement will deliver advanced object group technology for reliable distributed object-oriented application development. Isis Distributed Systems and IONA Technologies of Dublin, Ireland announced plans to integrate IONA's Orbix object request broker with Isis reliable distributed computing (RDC) technology. Orbix+Isis will be the world's first reliable, object-oriented (OO) programming environment for the development of business critical applications in a distributed environment. (109 lines) 64.74 IONA Releases Orbix Version 1.2 IONA Technologies announced the latest version of its Orbix object request broker (ORB) software today. Orbix Version 1.2 includes an Object Loader function for the first time, as well as an upgraded Interface Repository, a new approach to filtering, and more code examples to guide programmers. (91 lines) 64.75 ScreenPlay 2.1 MultiMedia Software From info@rad.com RAD Technologies announces shipment of a major release of the company`s ScreenPlay multimedia video and presentation software for Sun, IBM PowerPC, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard workstations. Release 2.1 is a major update with advanced new editing and recording features, and now also enables playback on Microsoft Windows an Apple Macintosh platforms. (170 lines) 64.76 NuTCRACKER: Port Code bewteen UNIX and Win32 subsystem of NT From: Pat Higbie DataFocus Incorporated, Fairfax, Virginia, introduced NuTCRACKER, a complete, integrated product family for developers who want to port their UNIX applications to the Win32 subsystem of Windows NT(TM). (Another way to look at it: If you must write apps that will run under NT, then write them in such a way that they will run under UNIX or NT with just a recompile. - johnj) (179 lines) 64.77 ShowCASE implements Booch Method From: de5@de5.CTD.ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) ShowCASE is a multi-user software engineering tool that supports the Booch method of object-oriented design. The product allows developers to create models of their systems using graphical tools that understand the semantics of the Booch methodology. C++ code can be generated auto- matically from these models. ShowCASE is one of the first tools of its kind to operate on heterogeneous networks of PC, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations. (72 lines) 64.78 Westmount Announces Integration with Oracle and UNIFACE. From: tike@wmt.nl (Tineke Keuzenkamp) Westmount provides the Westmount part of the bridge between Westmount I-CASE and UNIFACE 4GL. The bridge is based on the Westmount I-CASE Yourdon product for Analysis and Global Design. UNIFACE is used to perform the Implementation. The bridge closes the gab between the Westmount and the UNIFACE environment and transfers the graphical Global Design out of the Westmount environment into the Conceptual Schema of the UNIFACE environment. The bridge delivers extensive synchronisation facilities between the Graphical Global Design and the Conceptual Schema. (146 lines) 64.79 Codonics Announces NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer From: cmm@CODONICS.COM (Christina Theodore (Magalotti)) Codonics, Inc. announces the introduction of the Codonics NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer, a new 300 DPI state-of-the-art color and monochrome network printer specifically designed to work with any homogeneous or heterogeneous TCP/IP or EtherTalk based network. Utilizing dye-sublimation technology with 16.7 million simultaneously printable colors, the Codonics NP-1600 is capable of producing continuous tone prints. (61 lines) 64.80 SecurePrint for Solaris 2.x From: Rodney Lewis Labelling printed output and controlling access to printers has always been a challenge to installations processing classified, proprietary, or sensitive information. Various approaches have been used over the years. Before SecurePrint the available options were labor intensive, inflexible and likely to produce inconsistent or erroneous labelling. SecurePrint solves this problem for UNIX environments. (65 lines) 64.81 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (9 articles, 49 Kb, 1031 lines - about 16 US pages) 64.82 Advanced Systems Table Of Contents: May 1994 From: mac@advanced.com (Michael McCarthy) Advanced Systems Magazine is a 'trade publication' for UNIX professionals. It is free to qualified US subscribers. Nonqualified readers or overseas readers can subscribe for US$18 per year plus shipping. Michael McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief, has prepared this article, which is basically the table of contents from the May 1994 issue, at my suggestion. Please send email to flash@sun.com and tell me if you find having electronic table of contents to hardcopy magazines useful. Based on reading this table of contents I know that I am looking forward to reading this issue! -johnj (295 lines) 64.83 SUG 1994 CD-ROM for Solaris 2.2 From: john@sug.org (J. Mickevich) SUG is pleased to announce its first software library that is completely Solaris 2.2 compatible. Like all of the previous disks in our award-winning line of software libraries, the 1994 SUG CD emphasizes information sources (archives of useful textual information) and includes plug-and-play Sparc binaries for many useful libraries and programs. As in all previous years, wherever possible sources and help-files are also provided. Description of CD Contents and an Ordering form enclosed. Sun User Group CD-ROMs are available ONLY to Sun User Group Members. If your are not a member, use the form below to join. ($40 US, $55 Outside US). The CD-ROM is $95 + postage or freight (248 lines) 64.84 HPCwire Table of Contents: April 22 From news@hpcwire.ans.net HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. (186 lines) 64.85 Updated Internet Services List (4/15/94) From: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) Popular listing of services available on the Internet. More that 1000 SunFlash subscribers requested a copy of the March version of this list. Type "finger yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu" to find ways to receive this list! This list is now available via: ftp ftp.csd.uwm.edu (pub/inet.services.txt). An html version of this list is available by ftp (pub/inet.services.html). ftp this file and use mosaic ! Summary: +Christian Resources, +Internet Mall, +Jersualem One Gopher, +Learning Link, +Pest Management, +Scores, +USDA Gopher, -Consumer Access Services, -NNTP. (904 lines) 64.86 The Internet Mall: Shopping the Information Highway [15 Apr, 94] From: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor) A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet More that 1000 SunFlash subscribers sent for last month's edition of this document. (552 lines) 64.87 RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS 15.78 From: risks@CSL.SRI.COM (RISKS Forum) This article is a recent RISKS-FORUM Digest. I think that this is an excellent mailing-list/discussion-group/Digest, so I will post this one digest to SunFlash. If you want to subscribe - following the instructions at the end of the digest. -johnj FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator Contents: Computerized Traffic-Light Problems (Debora Weber-Wulff) Risks of winning (Stanley Chow) Computer Generates False Tsunami Warning in Japan (George Pajari) NYC subway fare cards double-deduct; UI at fault (Andrew Marc Greene) A consumer risk from Thomson Consumer Electronics Re: we trust calculators over ourselves (John Powell) Re: Risks ... to the quality of science (A. Padgett Peterson) Re: Risks of Data Compression (John Kennedy) Re: Math and money laundering (Erann Gat, Peter Wayner) Re: Information resource (Edward Reid) Re: Green Card Posting (Caveh Jalali, Ned Kittlitz, Mark Brader) Info on RISKS (comp.risks), contributions, subscriptions, FTP, etc. (576 lines) 64.88 INTERNET SHOPPING NETWORK From: info@internet.net The Internet Shopping Network, the nation's first electronic superstore available on the worldwide Internet, was formally announced at an event at Techmart in conjunction with the launch of CommerceNet, the first large-scale trial of electronic commerce on the Internet. The Internet Shopping Network went "live" today on the Internet with an on-line interactive catalog of more than 10,000 software and hardware products, offering Internet users an alternative to conventional stores and 800 number catalog vendors. http://shop.internet.net (97 lines) 64.89 SBUS PRODUCT DIRECTORY From: dux!nev@global.net (Neville Griffin) The second quarter North American and European edition of this widely acclaimed guide is now available. The SBus Product Directory is independently produced and was designed to serve the end users, resellers and system integrators by providing them with an easily accessed information source for in-production products. The Directory contains concise and current product profiles from 140 manufacturers including new announcements through the end of March. (121 lines) 64.90 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (8 articles, 141 Kb, 2979 lines - about 46 US pages) 64.91 Sun & Fujitsu Strengthen Strategic Relationship Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Fujitsu Limited, the second-largest computer company in the world, announced an expanded relationship that includes a memorandum of understanding outlining an investment in a coordinated SPARC(R) roadmap. In addition, the two companies announced that they have entered into three separate agreements: to extend Fujitsu's commitment to resell, distribute and service Sun products in Japan; to offer a common architecture comprised of interoperable, binary-compatible SPARC and UNIX(R) products based on open systems; and to exchange certain patent rights in the areas of computer technology. (180 lines) 64.92 Trusted Solaris Chosen by Oracle Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. announced that Solaris(tm) and Trusted Solaris(tm) were chosen as the operating systems for Oracle Corporation's recent European database management system security evaluations. Oracle7 was evaluated on Solaris 2.2 against the European Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC) to assurance E3 and with functionlity F-C2 in conjunction with an F-C2 operating system. Trusted Oracle7 was evaluated on Trusted Solaris (TS) against the ITSEC to assurance E3 and with functionality F-B1 in conjunction with an F-B1 operating system. (98 lines) Subject: SunFlash Email addresses --------------------------------- flash@sun.com The SunFlash Editor sunflash-info@sun.com Automatic Information About SunFlash info-sunflash@sun.com Automatic Information About SunFlash flashadm@sun.com Administrative Issues flashadm@sun.com Article Requests sunflash-request@sun.com Requests to be addes to the list Subject: Call For Submissions for SunFlash ------------------------------------------ Please help to keep SunFlash useful by providing me with articles of general interest to the Sun community. I plan to post about 100 articles per month to SunFlash. Most of those articles will originate outside of Sun. The kinds of articles that I am looking for are those that would be of interest to a significant percentage of Sun users. E.g. Product announcements, conference agendas, electronic newsletters, articles from and about 'the net' etc. If your company is making product announcements about products that you think many Sun users would be interested in and you do not see those announcements in SunFlash, contact your marketing people and suggest that they forward such announcements to flash@sun.com. Browsing through this month's digest should give you a fair idea of what I am looking for. If you are a writer and are interested in posting a technical article to SunFlash, I will consider such material. As SunFlash is free, I am not in a position to pay for such articles. If there are technical articles available within your company that help expain areas of technology or solutions to problems that your company or its products or services address particularly well, you might consider seeking permission to allow me to post such articles to SunFlash. I can only accept artciles via email. If your job is to help people find solutions to problems and you come across interesting technology or good products that help solve problems, suggest to the vendors of such solutions that they contact me to promote them. (Hint, hint fellow Sun SE's!) Some Sun employees forward internal Sun email messages to their customers although Sun policy prohibits such forwarding. (e.g SunIntros). If there is a need to get the information from internal email messages to customers, then there is a potential SunFlash. For example, I edit SunIntros to make them suitable for Sun customers and then explictly seek reviews of my edits and obtain permission to post the edited SunIntros as SunFlashes from the relevant authors and managers. If you are a Sun employee and you come across material that would be of interest to many Sun users, then please forward such material to me. I will always obtain permission to post such information from the responsible authors or managers before I post it as changes may be required to make such articles 'customer ready'. (e.g. 34.24 'Sun Software Update Release History' which lists the Sun Software Products, their revsion numbers and the date on which they were released). Thanks for your help! -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Popular SunFlash Articles from February, March and April ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 10 Articles request from Vol 64 (April 1994) 64.19 SunSoft Debuts Solaris 2.4 64.30 Solaris and MS-Windows, DOS, MAC Apps 64.37 Internet Services List (4/1/94) 64.36 The Internet Mall [01 Apr, 94] 64.21 Roadmap For Solaris Distributed Objects 64.63 Mosaic Server Product Announcement 64.43 Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog 64.02 Solaris 1.1.1 Version B 64.88 INTERNET SHOPPING NETWORK 64.20 Solaris: UNIX Platform Of Choice Top 10 Articles request from Vol 63 (March 1994) 63.60 SMCC Introduces SPARCstation Voyager 63.45 Internet Services List (Mar-01-94) 63.61 Solaris to Run Macintosh Applications 63.80 The Internet Mall: [22 Mar, 94] 63.71 Sun Security Bulletin: #00126, 3/21/94 63.64 STB Takes microSPARC-II to 85 and 100MHz 63.06 New Upgrades To SPARCstation 10 63.72 Solaris x86 Hardware Compatibility Guide 63.81 Internet Multicasting Service 63.44 Solaris 2 SW list Top 10 Articles request from Vol 62 (February 1994) 62.27 FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 1.4 62.32 The Internet Shopping Mall 62.29 Prime Time Freeware's PD CD-ROMs 62.60 Centralized Unix Administration 62.31 New satellite usenet receiver 62.42 Stalker Security and Accountability 62.58 Demo of Fast Ethernet Products 62.25 O'Reilly's X Resource : Issue 9 62.56 Tivoli Products, Services and Alliances 62.55 Tivoli Selected by X/Open Systems Subject: Local SunFlash Distribution Aliases -------------------------------------------- Many organizations have aliases in place for the direct distribution of sunflash within those organizations. 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As there are several SunFlash Distributions options, please consider creating several aliases: #default distribution sunflash: sunflash-daily #daily: about 1 per day, some will be digests sunflash-daily: #weekly: about 1 per week, all will be digests sunflash-weekly: #monthly: about 1 per month, all will be digests sunflash-monthly: #full: about 100 per month - all the articles sunflash-full: Please create 'owner' aliases to redirect sendmail errors to a local guru: # Who gets sunflash error messages that are due to local problems ? # Please include a fully qualified address (i.e. with domainname too) owner-sunflash: guru@yoursite.yourdomain owner-sunflash-daily: owner-sunflash owner-sunflash-weekly: owner-sunflash owner-sunflash-monthly: owner-sunflash owner-sunflash-full: owner-sunflash Rather then editing '/etc/aliases', you can use an include file with one email address per line: #sunflash alias files: daily, weekly, monthly and full sunflash: sunflash-daily sunflash-daily: :include:/home/flash/daily.list sunflash-weekly: :include:/home/flash/weekly.list sunflash-monthly: :include:/home/flash/monthly.list sunflash-full: :include:/home/flash/full.list This use of sendmail 'include' files makes it easy for you to add/delete/change entries without (a) being root, and (b) you don't have to edit /etc/aliases and issue the newaliases command (or update the NIS db). ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. 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