SunFlash January 9th, 1995 *************************** Contents: 73.01: Sun's Hottest Newsletter 73.02: Sun, Thomson launch Open TV Interactive Multimedia Environment 73.03: Sun, Thomson Alliance Gets Down To Business 73.04: Sun Microsystems Announces Executive Transition 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index sending for articles subscribing/unsubscibing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.01: Sun's Hottest Newsletter This a quaterly newsletter from Sun Microsystems. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please send electronic mail to comments@goldenbear.Corp.Sun.COM. o The world's first enterprise UNIX video server o News flash: Sun and the Internet o New interactive, on-line annual report o Sun sponsors Russian hockey all stars o Partnership with Netscape o Solaris 2.4 - Sun's best Solaris release o A+Edition(tm) boosts Solaris performance for high-end commercial server customers o Wabi 2.0 expands Microsoft Windows applications for UNIX o Online: DiskSuite 3.0 - SunSoft's commercial-grade volume management for Solaris 2.4 o SunSoft's FireWall-1: powerful Internet security made easy o HyperSPARC boosts performance of technical applications o Broadcast from your desktop with ShowMe TV o SolarNet: state-of-the-art networking for PC environments o Sun and Oracle team up to provide quality products and service o Sun's financial trading room leadership expands worldwide o New and improved SunSoft WorkShop product suite o Sun Microsystems scores big at 1994 World Cup o In Short (ISDN, Cooperative Consoles, 14-GB 8mm tape, Lotus Notes) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.02: Sun, Thomson launch Open TV Interactive Multimedia Environment Open TV(TM), an operating environment for interactive television, was introduced by the alliance between Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Thomson Consumer Electronics SA. This is the first product from the alliance, presenting a platform-independent solution for delivering interactive services to consumers. Demonstrated today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) were samples of applications the alliance expects will be built by developers using Open TV technology, including ticket channel, interactive advertising and video-on-demand. The Open TV environment allows cable, telco, satellite, and other broadcast network operators and content providers to download interactive applications to set-top decoders through existing networks. The applications then use the return path of the set-top box to provide full interactive transactional capabilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.03: Sun, Thomson Alliance Gets Down To Business Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun) and Thomson Consumer Electronics (TCE) publicly unveiled the first results of their new alliance. The two companies used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to announce a jointly designed digital interactive TV system, from server to decoder. It is the first working system based on commercially available products and technologies to be offered to network operators and content providers. The system on display in Las Vegas was developed by Sun and TCE's team, which was formed following the July, 1994 announcement of their alliance. A formal agreement between the two companies was signed last month. In less than six months, the joint team has succeeded in developing an operational system, with servers delivering a stream of interactive digital MPEG2 compressed video signals and data to consumer set-top receivers. With this achievement, Sun and TCE demonstrated in concrete terms their mutual commitment to build and market end-to-end solutions for the interactive multimedia services marketplace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 73.04: Sun Microsystems Announces Executive Transition J.Phillip Samper to Change Role Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SMI) announced that J. Phillip Samper, president of Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) has chosen to step down from his current position at the end of February. At that time, he will assume a consulting and advisory role for SMI. He will remain in his current position through February, to assist in the transition to a successor. The process for identifying a successor has been initiated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information This article contains general information about the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years. "SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to make some changes. For a variety of reasons, I started the two new journals, "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" , and moved production of all three journals to an independent company with its own resouces and Internet domain (FlashBack.COM). 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