Sun presents a major Web event on February 10, 2003, and you’ve got a
front row seat. Join Scott McNealy and other Sun executives and technologists
on Monday, February 10. See firsthand, via live streaming video, how Sun can
reduce the cost and complexity of your data center.
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I’ve added a Security Advisories section dealing with
Solaris and software that runs on Solaris systems.Link

The Solaris[tm] 9 x86 Operating Environment is now available.
Click on the link to purchase a media kit or download the software
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Sun has released version 2.0 of its Sun Ray server-side
software (required to use Sun Ray thin clients).
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The OpenPKG project released version 1.2 of their unique RPM-based
cross-platform Unix software packaging facility. OpenPKG 1.2 provides 361
selected packages which include proven versions of popular Unix software like
Apache, BIND, GCC, GnuPG, MySQL, OpenSSH, Perl, Postfix, Samba and teTeX –
all carefully packaged for easy deployment on the six officially supported
Unix platforms FreeBSD 4.7 and 5.0, Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 and 3.0, and Sun
Solaris 8 and 9. Highlights in this version are a new approach for package
build-time option handling, a fully reorganized and extended packaging of the
Perl 5.8 language, and the availability of a new utility package
“openpkg-tool” which allows automated updating of whole OpenPKG instances with
complex dependencies and used build-time options.
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Sun has pictures of the UltraSPARC-IIIi CPU up.Link

NextCom LLC announces the first sub $3,000 UltraSPARC 64 bit Solaris Notebook
and mobile server. A $2,995 priced configuration includes a 14.1″ high
resolution TFT display, UltraSPARC IIe 400Mhz RISC processor, 2D/3D graphics,
30GB Hard drive, 256MB SDRAM, 10/100 Ethernet, floppy drive, Solaris 8 or 9,
Sun’s Star Office suite and an innovative Hardware Security ID feature.
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The Sun[tm] ONE Application Server 7 is now integrated with the
Solaris 9 Operating Environment Update 2 for the SPARC platform.
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For the first time, Unix professionals with Sun Microsystems
SunBlade workstations have a pen size peripheral that is hot pluggable with
these workstations for removable and portable storage. They can also now
plug and play exchange data files with other platforms including Win
2000/ME/XP, Mac OS 9.x/10.1.2 or above, and any Linux distribution
based on the 2.4 kernel. Link

Download StarOffice[tm] 6.0 Office Suite Evaluation Software and get
word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, and database
capabilities. It reads, edits, and saves to Microsoft file formats and
is available in 10 languages (please note that the evaluation software
is currently available in English, French, German, Swedish,Spanish, and
Italian only. Additional language versions will be available in the
coming weeks). The evaluation software is good for 90-days from the date
of installation.
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Sun Microsystems Canada has teamed with Beonix Technology
to open the Linux Competency Centre of Canada.Link

Sun has released Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0, adding support
for its Liberty Alliance specification.Link

Sun is now offering 8, 16, and 32-port 2G fibere-optic
switches from Brocade’s SilkWorm line.Link

According to this NEWS.COM article, the clothing retailer
Gap has chosen high-end Sun Fire servers to run its Oracle
Financials back-end software.Link