Join Alan Duboff, Phil Brown and Eric Boutilier of Sun Microsystems at the LISA Conference to discuss Sun’s commitment to provide the added tools and resources requested by the community such as the integration of Open Source software into the Solaris(TM) Software distribution and special resources for Solaris x86 OS users. Sun wants to make these resources more valuable and useful to you.

Come by on Wednesday, October 29, 9:00pm – 11:00pm and learn more about what Sun is doing, and give feedback on how to make these resources even better.

To register for the LISA Conference: http://www.usenix.org.
For Solaris X86 information: http://sun.com/solaris/x86

According to this Reuters article, Sun and Fujitsu are in talks to combine the UltraSPARC and SPARC64 processor architectures and server designs.

Act by October 31 to sign up for a, instructor-led Solaris(tm) OS Security administration course – and receive a free digital camera!

More Information: http://training.sun.com/US/catalog/security_promo.html

On Thursday, October 23, join an online Q&A with your peers and Sun experts to find out how Sun’s Java(tm) System Application Server 7 helps ensure high availability with its session state persistence data store.

Topics discussed during the online chat will include:
* Achieving less than 5 minutes of downtime in a year
* Scalability of session state persistance
* Features of the new version of the Java System Application Server
* Migrating to the new version of the Java System Application Server

To sign up: http://www.sun.com/expertexchange?ssobm=ol3

A Macromedia Flash Player 6 plug-in is now available for use with the Mozilla browser on the Solaris Operating System (SPARC and x86 editions). This plug-in can be downloaded from Macromedia’s site at http://www.macromedia.com/; it allows playback of interactive multimedia content authored in the popular Flash format and published on thousands of Web sites worldwide.

To download the Player: http://www.macromedia.com

For more on Mozilla on Solaris: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/browser

Visit Sun’s booth at this month’s LISA event in San Diego and an N1-focused BoF on Tuesday evening to learn how N1 helps address datacenter complexity and cost, data center resource utilization, and how it can improve the quality of life for system administrators.
Register: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/

This NEWS.COM article gives details on Sun’s upcoming announcement of the UltraSPARC-IV, due in June 2004 starting at speeds of 1.2Ghz. The US-IV will outperform the UltraSPARC-III by a factor of 1.6 to 2, according to Sun.

This NEWS.COM article has details on Sun’s plans for Solaris x86 on AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processor.

How is Sun delivering more value by integrating critical features such as avaliability, manageability, security, network and Web services into every system?

This whitepaper describes how we are:
- Offering Solaris OS for both UltraSPARC and x86-based systems
- embracing Linux as an open standard and offering it for x86-based systems
- adding Sun ONE middleware products to both Solaris and Linux platforms
- providing worldwide support and services
- creating scalable platforms for network computing with freedom of choice built in

You can view this and other whitepapers at: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/whitepapers.html

Sun recently announced financial results for 4Q fiscal year 2003.

Sun Microsystems announced that it will recognize a $1,051 million non-cash charge in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2003 to increase a valuation allowance for its net deferred tax assets in accordance with the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” As a result of this non-cash charge, Sun has determined that it will recognize a revised net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003 of $1,039 million, or a net loss per share of $.32.

Receive a free digital camera by registering for one of Sun’s online security courses during the month of October.

To receive your free digital camera, register for one of the following courses:
* Administering Security on the Solaris Operating System
* Network Security Using SunScreen EFS
* Trusted Solaris 8 System Administration
* Enterprise Security Assessment and Best Practices
* Solaris Network Intrusion Detection
* Enterprise Security Deployment and Management

To learn more and register, go to:

http://training.sun.com/suned/us/security-training