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Hello one and all.  Here is the November 1992 Newsletter for OCSUG. 

Meeting is Fri, Nov 20 at Odetics. 09:00 - 12:00



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What's HOT !!!!

Welcome to the fourth issue of OCSUG.  Who says that Christmas doesn't come in
November? SUN is spoiling us once again with announcements of new products and
upgrades. See the Solar Flares section which will provide a list of the new
items from SUN. In accordance with the new announcements, this month we
feature an article revealing some of the new features of Solaris 2.1.

So get a cup of coffee, sit back and relax, and get ready to enjoy this
issue.

What Happened Last Time ...

When last we looked in on our intrepid little group, we were sitting around
the campfire held absolutely riveted by the networking presentations.  

The lead off presentation was given by Gene Saunders of Sun. He gave a nice,
detailed  account of the new version of SunNet Manager - revision 2.0. He also
elaborated on how other ISV networking packages integrate with SunNet Manager.


Next up was the Alantec PowerHUB presented by Greg Sonn and Art Laursen. The
PowerHUB is a high-speed bridge/router that can be used to improve
peer-to-peer performance, off-loading the servers from routing.

The presentations were rounded out with a review of network acceleration from
Interphase Corporation by Lance Jay Lee. Their main thrust for improving
network performance centers around the Interphase NC400 Network CoProcessor.

All three presentations have a nice set of slides. If anyone did not receive a
copy,  please e-mail to Mike Rembis and he will forward you a copy.

Once again,  I take this opportunity to thank all of the speakers and their
representative companies for allowing them to participate.

Meeting Topics 



This month's agenda consists of:

Sun EXPO Review

SPARCworks 2.0

SmartStar VISION 

10th Annual SUG  Conference 

We will start the meeting with our usual informal roundtable of information
sharing. Certainly, the most prevalent topic will be Sun's very recent release
of both new hardware and software that were announced this month, most of
which are listed below in the Solar Flares spot.

Since this meeting was designated as a programmer's meeting, the topics for
all presentations will be about  programming tools. First up will be the
presentation of the latest in the line of programming tools offered by Sun by
Bill Mutchie of Sun. SPARCworks, It 's a programmer's paradise!

Sebastian Nania and Janet Wieczkiewicz from SmartStar Corporation will review
their Motif-to-SQL Database Application Builder, VISION. A note from their
brochure:

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First GUI Builders, Now the Complete Solution

Graphical User Interface (GUI) Builders have demonstrated a dramatic reduction
in the effort required to create engineering and business applications for
workstations. The difficulty begins when attempting general purpose SQL
database access. At SmartStar Corporation, we have taken our vision of
workstation-based application development and made it a reality. SmartStar
Vision solves the Motif-to-SQL application builder problems with coding - we
call it NoGL.

Motif Objects to SQL 

Database Applications - Fast

Creating an application with SmartStar Vision is easy. Using the main menu, an
application archive and its window components can be created. Objects can be
painted into the window be selecting them from the window editor palette. More
than 15 object classes with over 100 attributes and 20 methods can be
controlled in this manner. master regions, scrolling regions, menus, buttons,
list fields and many other objects including full SQL database linkage can be
created automatically with coding - no coding, no maintenance - NoGL.
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And finally, we will conclude with information about the upcoming SUG
Conference to be held in San Jose in December. Hope to see all of you there ! 

The meeting will be held at Odetics in Anaheim near Disneyland. See the map at
the end of this newsletter for details. The next scheduled meeting for the
OCSUG is tentatively  Friday, January  15, 1993. 

SOLAR FLARES

New this  month

SPARCcenter 2000

SPARCstation LX

SPARCclassic

Solaris 2.1 

SunSolve 1.1



"Hello" 

"Is there anybody out there ?"



[soapbox mode on]

I don't know - I'm a stranger in town.  No, that's what I said last month. 
Just nod if you can hear me, or wink or wave. What am I talking about ? I'm
talking about you. Yes, you! You can put down your cup of coffee and listen
for a moment.  

I don't want to sound like I'm whining or redundant, but to tell you the
truth, I do not receive much input from you on what  you would like to get out
of our meetings or from this chapter of the user group. It seems that everyone
is content to just show up if the the particular subjects appeal to them. Sure
there are a few of you who are very helpful and giving toward this project.
For that I am very grateful. 

Please remember, this is your user group. It can only function, thrive and
survive if we all participate.

I know that complacency is really a lost art form and that there are a lot of
grand masters out there.  

Along the same lines, if everyone is happy with the way things are going,
please advise me. Feedback from you is the only way I have to learn if I am
doing what's expected of me.

Of course, this could all just be paranoia creeping in. Maybe this is how
Roger felt  when he left the band.

[soapbox mode off]



Solaris 2.1 



This  article is reprinted from SunFlash 47.09. This is for those of you who
do not receive SunFlash.

      The Florida SunFlash

 SUNSOFT LAUNCHES SOLARIS 2.1

SunFLASH Vol 47 #9	                    November 1992 

  

                  New Features For Business Market

                      The Right Box For Rightsizing



MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 4, 1992 -- SunSoft today introduced a new version
of the Solaris 2.0 distributed computing environment. Called Solaris 2.1, the
software boasts new installation, administration, security and
internationalization features, providing commercial users with the industry's
most powerful 32-bit software environment for the corporate enterprise.

Based on extensive customer input and testing, the Solaris 2.1 computing
environment incorporates more than 1,000 product improvements, delivering up
to a 40% increase in areas of network performance and up to a 50% increase in
user interaction performance over Solaris 2.0. The Solaris 2.1 software
includes full symmetric multiprocessing and multi-threading capabilities,
dramatically increasing system performance. In addition, the new version
offers major enhancements in the graphics area, providing users with 2D-3D
capabilities critical to the technical and high-end commercial markets.

Today's announcement adds to the momentum for the Solaris computing
environment. Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC), the leading UNIX system
supplier, will make Solaris 2.1 available for all existing SPARC systems,
including its multiprocessor workstations and servers, by the end of the year.
Solbourne, CompuAdd, Toshiba and Hyundai will use the software in their
systems targeted for shipment next year.

More than 5,000 32-bit applications -- the largest base in the world-- are
available for Solaris today. Already, more than 800 of the top applications
are being ported to the Solaris 2.X environment including products from Oracle
Corp., Sybase Inc., Lotus Development Corp., Computer Associates
International, Electronic Data Systems, Autodesk Inc. and Adobe Systems, Inc.
In addition, the Solaris 2.1 environment is binary compatible with Solaris 2.0
allowing applications to run without modification.

"Major corporations worldwide are rightsizing their business today, requiring
CIOs to select optimal solutions for running their corporations efficiently
and cost effectively," said Edward J. Zander, president of SunSoft, Inc.
"Solaris 2.1 with its robustness and performance is clearly the `Right Box For
Rightsizing' for global businesses in this decade and beyond."

"The new capabilities introduced with Solaris 2.1 and ORACLE7 fit
hand-in-glove to form a solid foundation for the most demanding high-end
commercial and technical applications," said Joe Vassallo, vice president of
Oracle's Sun products division. "Both Oracle and Sun are investing heavily to
ensure that Solaris 2.1 with ORACLE7 will deliver industry leading OLTP
performance and unparalleled heterogeneous networking of applications."

SOLARIS 2.1 FEATURES

The Solaris 2.1 software environment offers several new features to make
system management and security easy and cost-effective across the enterprise.
These include:

Installation

JumpStart - a feature that automatically installs and configures hundreds of
systems across the network simultaneously with no user interaction required.

Upgrades - the foundation for automatic network upgrades to future Solaris
releases. Upgrades can be tailored for highly customized systems using
interactive menus.

Administration

Online: Backup - the industry's first product available for restoring and
backing up Solaris 2.X data across the network. A fully automated tool, it
enables system administrators to safely back up data while machines are
active, allowing users to continue work without interruption.

User Manager - a graphical tool enabling users anywhere in the world to add
new accounts and build user directories on remote servers.

Database Manager - a powerful tool for system managers to review and change
information in the central administration database, enabling easy system
updates and management across global networks.

Print Manager - a graphical interface for users to set up the print servers
and easily connect their client systems to a variety of printers anywhere in
the enterprise.

Host Manager - a desktop tool for connecting and configuring client systems
onto the network in the three most popular profiles: stand-alone systems,
diskless clients and dataless clients.

Software Manager - an icon-based product that allows users to browse, install
and manipulate third-party applications regardless of whether they are on a
CD-ROM, hard disk, or across the network.

Security

Solaris SHIELD - a product that brings C2-level security to the Solaris 2.1
environment, a requirement for government contracts and demanding commercial
environments.

ASET - a tool that allows system administrators to automatically audit and
enhance workstation and server security across the network.

Graphics

XGL Graphics Library - a foundation providing software vendors with the
features required to develop 2D-3D geometry-based graphics applications,
critical to the technical market. The library consists of a software
programming interface, hardware device driver interface, and a run-time
environment.

Symmetric Multiprocessing

Multithreading (SMP/MT)

The symmetric multiprocessing and multithreading capabilities included in the
Solaris 2.1 environment greatly increase the performance of multiprocessor
systems such as the new SPARCstation 10. Multithreading also speeds up I/O
processing and concurrency, improving the performance of mission-critical
commercial and technical applications.

Information On-Line

Solaris 2.1 comes bundled with the AnswerBook hypertext-based on-line
documentation facility that contains information from end user manuals. Users
customize their search by calling up a summary for a brief description or
entire product pages for more detailed information using interactive menus at
their desktop.

Localization

Solaris 2.1 is fully localized for the worldwide commercial market, providing
users with a consistent desktop environment in their native language. The
product is localized in German, French, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Korean and
two versions of Chinese: PRC (People's Republic of China) and ROC (Republic of
China).

 Future versions of the Solaris software will incorporate additional features
to address the changing needs of the business market. Solaris will include
high availability features, enabling users on a corporate network to maintain
access to their NFS and DBMS data even in the event of server failures. The
Solaris high availability software will be modular, allowing system managers
to tailor the software for individual needs.

SunSoft, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC
and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and
distributed through major computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide.

* 1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun, SunSoft, Solaris, AnswerBook, JumpStart,
NFS, SHIELD, XGL and SPARCstation are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System
Laboratories, Inc. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International,
Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other products
or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

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 Tidbits 

"Items overheard during the last two months ..."



*	SunPro* announces availability of the C Transition Pack - a combination of
compilers and development tools - to ease migrating C applications from
Solaris 1.0 to Solaris 2.0..

*	SunExpress has lowered its  U.S.   prices   to   competitive    "street"
levels.   So   what  you  see is what you pay for -- quality products at
everyday low prices.

*	The recently formed SunPro SIG is a  two-way  channel  for  information 
about  software development on the Solaris platform.  If you would like more
information about joining this SIG, send a request to SunproSIG@Sun.Com.

*	SPARC* International (SI)  announced   the   availability   of   SPARC
Architecture  Version  9

*	SPARC International (SI) announced the availability of  its  Developer's
ToolChest,  a  comprehensive  set  of interface specifications and tools
distributed on CD-ROM for systematic migration to the  SPARC  Compliance
Definition (SCD) 2.0.





See you at the meeting !!!!!!

Meeting Location:
Odetics, Inc.
1515 So. Manchester Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92802-2907
David Rossman  (714) 774-5000 x6941
rossman@odetics.com
Meeting Time: 09:00 - 12:00

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Newsletter Information:

This newsletter was edited by Mike Rembis

Ericsson Business Communications, Inc.
525 N. Muller St..
Anaheim, CA 92803       (714) 491-6259
Mike.Rembis@ebu.ericsson.se



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