In conjunction with March is Java(tm) Web Services Education Month,
please Join Lew Tucker, VP of Internet Services, Karen Casella, Director
of IT Strategy and Architecture, and Gerry Petersen, Director of
Enterprise Messaging and Integration Services as they discuss Sun’s
model for governing the development, deployment, and maintenance of Web
Services.

Topics will include: How to get started in your own organization; Key
factors inhibiting the deployment of Web services; Overview of Sun’s
model for deploying new services.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.sun.com/nettalk/index.html

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According to this eWeek article, Sun has dropped its custom “Sun Linux” distribution, which was based on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, and will be concentrating on supporting between two and four standard Linux distributions rather than taking one and customizing it for distribution as “Sun Linux”.

James Birdsall, author of the Sun Hardware Reference, has created The Practical Guide to FDDI.

Beth Stearns, a principal partner of ComputerEase Publishing, has
written an article detailing how to develop an Amazon Web Services
client. The example application is a Swing client that searches the
Amazon catalog for books whose subject matches a user-selected topic.
For more information, please visit:

http://java.sun.com/webservices/education-month/index.html

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Sun has joined the Web Services Interoperability Oganization, and two Sun employees have been appointed to the organization’s Board of Directors.

This Register article has more information on upcoming UltraSPARC-IIIi based machines code-named “Enchilada” and “Chalupa”, along with faster US-III processors for the V480 and V880.

Sun has updated an alert, originally issued in January, about L2 SRAM problems on some high-end systems. “Sun has identified an issue with L2 SRAM parameter settings on Sun Fire 3800/4800/4810/6800, Sun Fire 12K/15K, Sun Fire V1280 and Netra 1280 systems. This issue may cause L2 SRAM errors to be produced, which can lead to domain panics or hangs.”

Nature Worldwide Technology Corp. (Naturetech) announces today the availability of a powerful Ultra SPARC IIi 650MHz based mobile server packed with storage, memory, and I/O options including Ultra SCSI. Solaris user professionals now have the ultimate mobile server and high end notebook workstation.
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We’ve just published our latest article, an interview with Sun
Distinguished Engineer Dr. Marc Tremblay. Dr. Tremblay was the
co-architect of Sun’s first 64-bit processor, the UltraSPARC-I and served
as chief architect for the UltraSPARC-II and the dual-core MAJC project.
He is currently working on a highly multithreaded processor expected to
deliver 30 times the throughput of the current 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC III.

He sits down with us to talk about the architectural details of on-chip
multithreading, on-chip multiprocessing, high-bandwidth memory interfaces,
and shares his insight on how CPU architects will target server workloads
in the future. Check out the link below for the interview:

Architecting the Future: Dr. Marc Tremblay

(submitted by Brian Neal of Ace’s Hardware)

According to this NEWS.COM article, Sun is giving away $700 million worth of software (including Solaris 9, StarOffice, and Web Services development tools) to educational institutions and research facilities in south Asia.

The Early Access USB DDK v0.08a and the Solaris Audio MIDI Development Kit version 0.6 are now available from Sun.

(note: I’m starting limited Linux and Solaris x86 hardware and software coverage, due to Sun’s
recent entry into the Linux-on-x86 market)

NextCom LLC announces today the availability of the ultimate server consolidation solution with its NextBook high performance Linux Notebook.
NextBook provides ultimate flexibility to Linux users by providing concurrent Microsoft Windows application access for office, email, and other functions. Based on the high performance Intel Xeon P4 2.4 GHz server processor coupled with a 400MHz Front Side Bus and DDRAM architecture, the company’s WinUxBook mobile operating environment is both a Linux server as well as a Linux and MS-Windows workstation in a 7lb portable package with a high resolution SXGA+ 15″ LCD display.
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Please join James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow, and Bill Smith, XML Technology Center Director, this Friday, March 14 at 9:00am PT, for a live Net Talk on Java(tm) Web Services.

Sun’s “March is Java Web Services Education Month,” brings them together with host Simon Phipps, Sun’s Chief Technology Evangelist, to share their thoughts about today’s realities and tomorrow’s directions.

DATE: Friday, March 14, 2003
TIME: 9-10:30am PT/12-1:30pm ET

Please visit http://www.sun.com/nettalk?ssobm=nt9 for more information.

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I recently read Linux Server Hacks, written by Rob Flickenger and published by O’Reilly and Associates. I dont normally read “Linux specific” books for review here, but this was an exception. Read on for the review.
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The US Government’s Department of Justice and General Services Administration have joined the Liberty Alliance Project.