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The Monthly Bulletin For Users Of SPARC Based Products
Issue No. 55
Fairfield, CT--April 13,1998-- Linkon
Corporation joined SPARC International as a VAR
member. Linkon designs, manufactures and markets integrated
hardware and software products that process voice, data, and image
signals for the computer, telecommunications, and Internet industries.
The Maestro System(TM) with true "universal port" capability
offers call processing, fax, modem, voice compression, speech recognition,
and speech synthesis all in a single computer slot. Linkon is the
leading producer of open, universal port digital signal processing
(DSP) boards for Sun Microsystems(TM).
Research Triangle Park, NC--March 23 1998--The
Linux Operating System is making waves in the news. Get ready for
the largest gathering of the best and brightest minds in the computer
world--all there to discuss Linux! For three business-centered and
technology-packed days, May 28-30, the fourth annual Linux Expo,
sponsered by SPARC International member, RED
Hat Software and other firms, will take over Duke University
in Durham, NC.
Make plans now to visit the record number of Expo
exhibitors showing the latest in Linux-based hardware, software,
and service solutions. And stop in on the business and technical
discussions to hear talks by some of the most important names in
technology today including Linus Torvalds, the original developer
of the Linux kernal and the Expo's keynote speaker. The Linux Expo
has something for everyone. In addition to the hardware, software,
component and applications vendors, the Linux Expo will also have
a Quake Fest, Games Forum, Editor Wars, and an Email Garden. Tutorial
sessions with top Linux developers will also prove to be a large
draw at the Expo.
For more information about the Linux Expo or to
register for the events of the Expo, please see www.linuxexpo.org
or call + 919-547-0028.
Edmonton, Alberta--March 30, 1998-- Open Concept
International releases openQuote, the Premiere Java quotation package.
No more lost paperwork, duplicated quotes or wasted time. The versatility
of this program allows corporate sales forces to reduce the amount
of time spent on generating, filing, and searching for paper quotations.
Finding quotations for callback, updates or ordering is as easy
as clicking the mouse. Duplicated, lost or misplaced quotations
are a thing of the past.
Behind the friendly graphical user interface is
a powerful centralized SQL database. Quotations are stored in one
location that can be accessed by authorized users via local ethernet
or remotely via the World Wide Web. The database is password protected
against unauthorized users. Access to administrative functions is
set in the user administration module. Your data is kept safe and
secure, yet quickly available to those who need access to it.
Use on any computer - Windows (95 or NT) PC, Javastation,
Solaris, MAC OS, AIX, Ultrix.
To make this program truly useful, there are many
ways to deliver your quotations. Professional PostScript output
forms are created with your company information and logo. Email
output in both text and HTML or FAX directly to you customers.
Open Concept International, Inc. is a supplier
of computer hardware, software, and peripherals. OCI specializes
in advanced server products, networking and internetworking solutions
in a client-server environment. OCI is an authorized value-added
reseller of products manufactured by Sun Microsystems.
For more information visit Open Concept web site
at www.ocii.com. Open Concept
International, Inc, 3324 Parsons Road, Edmonton, Alberta, T6N 1B5,
Canada. Phone: + 403 434-2363, fax: + 403 438-2941.
Lake Mary, FL--April 3, 1998-- nStor(TM) Corporation,
Inc., (AMEX: NSO), a leading manufacturer of RAID subsystem and
information storage solutions, showcased their new Fibre Channel
storage solutions at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
show in Las Vegas, April 6-9, 1998. nStor displayed their recently
announced CR8F and CR18F Fibre Channel subsystem enclosures in the
Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC) booth, located in the Sands
Convention Center.
"The addition of Fibre Channel products provides
nStor customers with a complete array of storage solutions to offer
network administrators the maximum bandwidth, availability, scalability
and connectivity they need to meet their storage objectives, regardless
of operating system platform or storage technology," said Steven
Paulhus, director of marketing for nStor Corporation. "Both
enclosures offer users a level of I/O performance commensurate with
the processing power found in networked and clustered server environments,
making them ideal for multimedia, video, web, and online transaction
processing environments."
Lake Mary, FL--April 20, 1998-- nStor(TM)
Corporation, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high availability,
high performance RAID and information storage solutions, today announced
the signing of a distribution agreement with Peripheral Technology
Group, Inc., (PTG), an international distributor that specializes
in providing enterprise networking technology solutions. PTG is
located in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
"PTG has a well-earned reputation for being
a premier technical distributor in North America who specializes
in providing "solution-oriented" sales," said Craig
Ringuette, vice president of worldwide sales for nStor Corporation.
"Their unique sales approach, as well as their ability to successfully
develop and market leading-edge storage management products will
enable them to play a significant role in nStor's strategic distribution
plans."
Mountain View, CA--April 22, 1998-- Sun
Microsystems yesterday detailed a reorganization of its famous
independent operating companies into divisional units. Sun executives
claim the reorganization, which includes the creation of two new
divisions, will better coordinate product development, customer
service, and other operations.
"In the past, we had people from several
divisions calling on a customer, and it seemed like several companies
were calling," says John Loiacono, Sun's VP of brand marketing.
Now, "one sales force will call on a customer." The same
concept will be brought to other areas of the company, Loiacono
adds, such as product development.
Sun has turned SunSoft into the Solaris software
division, headed by president John McFarlane, and JavaSoft into
the Java software division, headed by Alan Baratz. Masood Jabbar
now heads the computer systems division, Mel Friedman leads the
microelectronics division, and Lawrence Hambly is in charge of the
customer-services division. Division heads will continue to report
to chief operating officer Ed Zander, who took over that post in
January. Chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos also reports
to Zander.
The two new divisions will be networked storage
and consumer/embedded products. The former, headed by Janpieter
Scheerder, will concentrate on providing customers with hardware
and software for mass storage. The latter, headed by Mark Tolliver,
will focus on the software and core Java technology in network-based
consumer applications such as set-top boxes, automobiles, and telephones.
Lake Mary, FL--April 23, 1998 -- nStor(TM)
Corporation, Inc., a leading manufacturer of RAID and information
storage solutions, today announced it has strengthened its disk
array product offerings with the acquisition of Borg Adaptive Technologies,
Inc. Located in Boulder, Colorado, Borg Adaptive Technologies is
the developer of Adaptive (RAID, a patented next-generation RAID
technology that offers complete fault tolerance and data protection,
along with the highest performance possible by dynamically determining
the optimal RAID level and eliminating write penalties. The real
power of Adaptive RAID is its ability to improve disk array performance
while simplifying RAID administration and setup.
R. Daniel Smith, president and CEO of nStor Corporation
commented, "With this acquisition, nStor continues to position
itself as a dominant player and leading-edge technology provider
in the RAID marketplace. This technology is not only powerful, but
very flexible in terms of implementation. We are actively pursuing
a variety of implementations utilizing this new technology, including
single and shared server storage applications, storage area networking
(SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) solutions."
nStor also announced the formation of a new engineering
facility, based in Boulder, Colorado. The Boulder Development Center
(BDC) will oversee the design and implementation of nStor's line
of next-generation RAID products utilizing this new technology.
The BDC facility will operate under the leadership of David Stallmo,
former president of Borg Adaptive Technologies.
For more information visit nStor's web site at
www.nstor.com. nStor, 450 Technology
Park, Lake Mary, Florida 32746. Phone: +800 724-3411, fax: +407
829-3638, email: sales@nstor.com.
Research Triangle Park, NC--April 28, 1998--Red
Hat Software, Inc., publisher of the award-winning Red Hat Linux
Operating System, today announced that a searchable online database
for its global commercial Support Program is now up and running.
Available at <www.redhat.com/commercial-support/> this website
helps you sort through a worldwide network of authorized commercial
Support Partners that currently spans three continents so that your
support needs are best met.
Said Robert Hart, Manager of Support Services,
Red Hat Software, "Telephone technical support is extremely
important to us. Red Hat Linux is a secure, stable and high performance
operating system, and organizations who run their mission critical
operations on Red Hat Linux want assurance that Red Hat Software
stands behind them. And our global Support Network allows us to
this 100%."
For more information on Red Hat Linux commercial
support options, please see
www.redhat.com/commercial-support or email:
com-supp@redhat.com.
Linux is the freely distributable, cooperatively-developed
POSIX-based, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system used worldwide.
Linux is used as a high value, fully-functional UNIX workstation
for applications ranging from Internet Servers to reliable work
group computing.
For more information about Red Hat Software and
Red Hat products and technologies, please call 1-919-547-0012 or
visit our web site at www.redhat.com.
Reviews encouraged.
Palo Alto, CA--April 29, 1998--- Sun
Microsystems, Inc. today announced its new midrange enterprise
server line up -- the Sun(TM) Enterprise(TM) 3500, 4500, 5500 and
6500 servers -- aimed at a range of applications, including enterprise
resource planning (ERP), datawarehousing, decision support, internets/intranets,
customer management systems, high-performance computing (HPC) and
more. The new server line uses the 336 MHz UltraSPARC(TM) processor,
and offers up to 43 percent better performance than Sun's midrange
servers did only a few months ago, according to SPECint_rate95 results.
Further, they are the first midrange servers with DR and AP features
for online repair and configuration of system resources and I/O,
which minimizes system downtime. With the exception of Sun's high-end
Starfire(TM) servers, mainframes, and some proprietary fault-tolerant
systems -- which can cost many times more than one of the new Sun
Enterprise systems -- no other server vendor offers these advanced
availability features. In fact, high-availability features on current-generation
Sun(TM) servers have enabled Sun to experience 99.99 percent uptime
on its own corporate network since 1996.
The new Sun Enterprise systems scale from one
to 30 processors in a single SMP server, offering customers industry-leading
scalability and performance. The new servers provide exceptional
performance via 336 MHz UltraSPARC(TM) II processors and Sun's 84
MHz to 100 MHz interconnect called the Sun Gigaplane(TM) system
bus.
The Sun Enterprise 3500 system offers up to eight
CPUs in a single SMP server. The server offers 33 percent more power
than the Sun Enterprise 3000 server it replaces, yet maintains the
same footprint. Sun's entry-level server for the midrange offers
internal fibre channel disk drives with dual port connections leading
to higher I/O performance and availability.
The Sun Enterprise 4500 server is the line's most
compact package for those with space concerns, with eight system
slots providing capacity for up to 14 CPUs in a flexible package.
The Sun Enterprise 5500 has the same capacities, but in a datacenter-compatible
cabinet. The new server line is anchored at the high end by the
Sun Enterprise 6500 server, which offers up to 30 CPUs and 16 system
slots. Both the Sun Enterprise 5500 and 6500 systems come in 68-inch
cabinets, supporting up to half a terabyte of internal Sun(TM) StorEdge(TM)
A5000 dual fibre channel arrays, together with a tape library all
in a single footprint. Both save on expensive datacenter real estate.
Like the Sun Enterprise 3000 to 6000 server family,
the new servers share many common components among each other and
among the earlier systems, providing customers with a high level
of investment protection. The new Sun Enterprise server family also
supports both S-Bus and PCI-bus I/O products. The new Sun Enterprise
3500 to 6500 servers are available immediately. The DR and AP features
for I/O will be available in June, and the DR feature for CPUs will
be available later this year. The price for an entry-level Sun Enterprise
3500 system with two 250-MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs, 256 MB of memory,
9.1 GB of disk and a CD-ROM is U.S.$49,700.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception
in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM),"
has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), to its position
as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services
for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power
of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun
can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web
at http://sun.com.
 Note
Additional information, including a complete listing of SPARC®
Compliant products, is available on the Internet via the World Wide
Web. Access www.sparc.org or
send email to info@sparc.org.
The SPARC® Compliant
brand, awarded by SPARC® International,
assures end users that systems so branded will work with any other
product branded to the same level of the "SPARC Compliant Definition
(SCD)." This list, updated monthly, includes changes made to
the master list of SPARC® Compliant products.
To view the master list, please access our web site at www.sparc.org
or send email to info@sparc.org.
ADDITIONS (System Products)
| Company & Product Name |
O/S |
SCD |
DATE |
| HCC Horizon (2300)300Mhz |
2.6 |
2.1 |
15 APR 98 |
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SYSTEMS IN PROCESS
| Company |
Product Name |
Model(s) |
O/S |
SCD |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Solo Colorado 3 x1 |
100,110,125,133,142,150 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Solo Colorado 3 x2 |
100,110,125,133,142,150 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Solo Colorado 4 x1 |
180,200 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Solo Colorado 4 x2 |
180,200 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Server Colorado 3 x1 |
100,110,125,133,142,150 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Server Colorado 3 x2 |
100,110,125,133,142,150 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Server Colorado 4 x1 |
180,200 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Server Colorado 4 x2 |
180,200 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Station Colorado 3 x1 |
100,110,125,133,142,150 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Station Colorado 3 x2 |
100,110,125,133,142,150 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Station Colorado 4 x1 |
180,200 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Ross |
SPARCplug Station Colorado 4 x2 |
180,200 |
4.1.4, 2.6 |
1.1 & 2.1 |
| Tatung |
COMPstation |
U10/300 |
2.6 |
2.1 |
| Tatung |
COMPstation |
U60/1300 |
2.6 |
2.1 |
| Tatung |
COMPstation |
U60/2300 |
2.6 |
2.1 |
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ADDITIONS (Semiconductor Products) None
at this time.
DELETIONS None at this time.
SEMI-CONDUCTOR IN PROCESS
| SIDSA/TGI Division |
ECU-001 |
v8 |
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