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The Florida SunFlash
SunFlash March 1992 Table Of Contents
SunFLASH Vol 39 #toc March 1992
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Note From The SunFlash Editor
Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers
Summary Of March's Messages (line count + title)
Summary of Messages Sent This Month (issue # and synopsis)
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Note From The SunFlash Editor
For those of you that keep track of issue numbers, I messed up!
I issued 39.08 twice! I have renumbered the second article
numbered 39.08 to:
39.10 ClariNet Electronic Publishing Service
The archive files for March 1992 should be available by the end of this
week. There is a compressed tar file of all of the 1991 articles (291
articles, about 1.25Mb - about 4Mb when uncompressed.) on all of the
archive servers. There are compressed tar files for each month as well
as the whole year.
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March 6th, 1992
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Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers
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Summary Of March's Messages
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Line Count Vol.# Title
100 39.01 SunPics Introduces NeWSprint XP Software
90 39.02 SMCC Expands Educational Services
90 39.03 Vendors Test TI-RPC/Netwise Technology
85 39.04 SMCC Revamps US Reseller Support Programs
97 39.05 Industry's First General Purpose TI-RPC
92 39.06 Arrow To Distribute SPARCengine Boards
365 39.07 HOT OFF THE PRESS
43 39.08 SunProgrammer Newsletter Available Free
415 39.09 Unbundled Software Release Matrix
677 39.10 ClariNet Electronic Publishing Service
106 39.11 Bombay Stock Exchange Automates With Sun
115 39.12 SunPEX 1.0 Now Shipping
88 39.13 Boeing Selects SunNet Manager
135 39.14 SMCC Lowers Price Of MP Servers
126 39.15 Announcing Solaris 1.0.1 AnswerBook
94 39.16 SMCC Reduces Prices On Graphics Systems
184 39.17 Sun User Group Announces SUG CD 1992.1
544 39.18 Sun's Hottest, Volume 2, Number 3
262 39.19 Third Party Product Announcements 1
308 39.20 Third Party Product Announcements 2
394 39.21 Third Party Product Announcements 3
120 39.22 ONC RPC Applications Toolkit 1.0
163 39.23 HOT OFF THE PRESS
103 39.24 SunSoft, Tivoli To Develop System Software
92 39.25 SunDBE 1.2
212 39.26 SPARCserver 690MP TPC-A Benchmark Results
Total 5100
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Summary of Messages Sent This Month
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39.01 SunPics Introduces NeWSprint XP Software
Extends NeWSprint Software Capabilities
Lets Network Users Print on Output Devices with
High Resolution, Large Size
SEYBOLD, Boston, Mass. -- February 18, 1992 -- SunPics, the Sun
Microsystems, Inc. business dedicated to printing and imaging,
today unveiled NeWSprint XP, licensable software that extends
the capabilities of NeWSprint 2.0 software to a wider range of
printing devices. The new technology, which will be available
to developers and original equipment manufacturers, makes it
possible to print files from any computer on a
network-including Macintosh, IBM and IBM-compatible PCs,
workstations, minicomputers and more-to output devices such as
imagesetters, high-resolution laser printers, large-format
plotters, and other high raster memory output devices. These
devices are used by professional publishers, desktop
publishers, newspapers, and others who require fast,
high-quality, PostScript-compatible output.
SunPics also announced that the first adopters of NeWSprint XP
technology will be ECRM and SRS Imaging, both of which have
agreed to license the new technology and incorporate it in
upcoming products. Like the NeWSprint 2.0 product, NeWSprint
XP speeds up the performance of output devices by allowing the
page imaging process to be handled by powerful SPARC central
processing units (CPUs) rather than by the slower processors
resident in the output device. Printing becomes a background
task in a network printing environment; no dedicated
workstation is needed for imaging. This in turn can reduce
printer costs, because no dedicated CPU or memory is needed in
the output device.
39.02 SMCC SMCC Expands Educational Services Worldwide
New Training Centers; Agreements with Partners Worldwide
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 2, 1992-- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that it has opened
customer training centers in Dallas and New York City. In
addition, SMCC has agreements with service partners around the
world to expand the delivery of courses to SMCC customers,
bringing the number of centers worldwide to 65.
The new facilities in Dallas and New York will train more than
2,000 customers per year. The centers offer customers a
variety of courses, ranging from system administration, the Sun
operating system and software, to programming and networking.
SMCC centers worldwide offer more than 50 courses for software
developers, application and graphics programmers, system
programmers, and hardware maintainers. SMCC designs its
courses to enable customers to optimize use of their
workstations and increase productivity through superior
technical and user training.
Course options include classroom training (with lectures and
laboratory exercises), technical seminars, interactive
self-paced and video-based courses and group employee training
at customer sites. As the leader in UNIX(R) system training,
SMCC has trained more than 33,000 customers in the past year at
centers in 20 countries around the globe. In addition to the
new facilities, SMCC has training centers in the United States
in California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as in
Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy,
Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
39.03 Vendors Test TI-RPC/Netwise Technology At Connectathon 92
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- March 4, 1992 -- Connectathon '92, the
annual interoperability event, was marked by the first
interoperability testing of the Transport-Independent Remote
Procedure Call (TI-RPC) interface. Vendors taking part
included Fujitsu, IBM, Motorola, Novell, SunSoft and
SunConnect. Interoperability was demonstrated on a variety of
system software, including NetWare, PC-NFS, AIX/6000, Solaris,
UNIX System V Release 4 and the AIX/ESA operating system,
running on PCs, workstations from Fujitsu, IBM, Motorola and
Sun, and an IBM mainframe.
In addition to testing TI-RPC, vendors ensured that distributed
applications generated by Netwise's RPC TOOL compiler were able
to run across multiple platforms. The Netwise technology has
been licensed by several vendors, including SunSoft, for resale
as an advanced platform for the development of distributed
applications. TI-RPC, part of SunSoft's Open Network Computing
(ONC) platform, was co-developed by Sun and AT&T for UNIX
System V Release 4. The source code is freely available for
porting to non-SVR4 systems and currently runs on numerous
systems, including NetWare, DOS, and IBM MVS and AIX. TI-RPC
is compatible with the earlier ONC RPC and is designed to be
independent of the underlying network transport. This means
developers can write their application once and run it
unmodified over multiple transport protocols.
39.04 SMCC Revamps US Reseller Support Programs
Adds Software Telephone Support Services;
Discounts on Spares, Repair Services, Fees
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 2, 1992-- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) today unveiled enhancements to its
reseller service programs for U.S. value-added resellers (VARs)
and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The revised
programs incorporate two new software support services as well
as enhancements to the existing reseller support programs,
allowing SMCC resellers to better tailor service to customers'
distinct needs.
The new software services, SunSupportLine(SM) and
SunSupportLine Plus (SM), are an added feature of the existing
services and enable resellers to offer end users unlimited
telephone support for system software running on Sun(TM)
workstations and servers. SunSupportLine also provides
resellers with software updates for their SMCC demonstration
systems. SunSupportLine Plus expands on this by giving
resellers automatic software updates for their end users'
systems as well. SMCC revised its programs in response to
extensive surveys conducted recently with its resellers. The
company has more than 900 resellers in the United States.
39.05 SunSoft Unveils Industry's First General Purpose
Transport-Independent RPC Toolkit
Novell, Borland, Lotus, AST Research Endorse Technology
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif-- March 4, 1992 -- Expanding its
leadership in distributed computing, SunSoft today announced
the industry's first general purpose Transport-Independent
Remote Procedure Call (TI-RPC) Toolkit for client-server
application development. TI-RPC combined with code generation
technology from NetWise, Inc. is a part of the ONC distributed
computing services provided in the SunSoft Solaris solution.
Called the ONC RPC Application Toolkit, this advanced
development platform enables software developers to create a
single version of a client-server application that runs
unmodified across a range of operating systems, hardware
platforms and networks.
The toolkit and several implementations of TI-RPC were tested
today at the Connectathon '92 interoperability event in San
Jose, Calif. Leading hardware and software vendors including
Novell Inc., the leading provider of network server operating
systems solutions, Borland International, a leading developer
of object oriented software and programming languages, Lotus
Development Corp., the developer of the industry-leading Lotus
1-2-3 productivity package, and AST Research, a leading
manufacturer of personal computers in the 80386/486 market
endorsed SunSoft's ONC RPC Application Toolkit. In addition,
Burlington Coat and VXM announced support for the new product.
The toolkit is part of a comprehensive networking strategy to
be announced by SunSoft in the next few months.
39.06 Arrow To Distribute SPARCengine Boards
Becomes First Master Reseller to Offer SPARCengine Products
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 10, 1992-- Arrow Electronics,
Inc. and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) jointly
announced that Arrow's Commercial Systems Group will add SMCC's
SPARCengine(R) 2 and SPARCengine IPX(TM) boards to the list of
products it now distributes through Sun-authorized resellers in
the United States. Arrow already carries SMCC's complete line
of workstations and servers. The addition of these boards will
enhance Arrow's ability to further service the growing embedded
board market, which includes medical and laboratory equipment,
computer-integrated manufacturing, telecommunications and
commercial applications.
At 21.8 SPECint92/22.8 SPECfp92 and 21.8 SPECint92/21.5
SPECfp92 SPEC benchmarks respectively, SMCC's SPARCengine 2 and
SPARCengine IPX boards are the highest-performance RISC-based
boards on the market. These are the same boards used in SMCC's
popular SPARCstation 2 and SPARCstation IPX systems. They use
powerful application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and
advanced graphics technology to compress all critical
workstation functions such as a SPARC(R) RISC microprocessor,
on-board graphics, memory, SCSI, audio and Ethernet
networking onto a single compact board smaller than a sheet
of paper.
39.07 HOT OFF THE PRESS
This is an edited version of an internal newsletter that I have been
given permission to post to this mailing list. -johnj
Recent News
February, 1992
39.08 SunProgrammer Newsletter Available Free
SunPro, the software development products business of Sun
Microsystems Inc., is happy to announce the debut of the
SunProgrammer newsletter. This quarterly newsletter is
targeted at the professional Solaris software developer and is
filled with information and tips on the use of the SunPro
compilers and developer productivity tools. Here are some of
the articles in the first issue:
* SPARCworks 2.0 - The Next Generation
* Introducting SunPro
* How to Choose an OOP Language
* Performance Tuning
* Code Reviews
and much more!
For a limited time you can obtain a FREE copy of this debut issue by
sending your name, company, and mailing address to
jennifer.umstattd@Sun.Com.
39.09 Unbundled Software Release Matrix
This article shows for each unbundled Sun product
- version numbers
- release date (FCS or First Customer Ship date)
- media supported (1/4" tape, CD-ROM, Floppy)
- architecture supported (Sun-2, Sun-3, Sun-4,
Sun4c, Sun4m, Sun386i etc.)
39.10 ClariNet Electronic Publishing Service
This article is from the following newsgroup:
From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: biz.clarinet
Subject: ClariNet Info File
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
ClariNet, in my own opinion, is a valuable service. Posting this
article does not imply an endorsement by Sun. -johnj
ClariNet is a new electronic publishing network service that
provides professional news and information, including live UPI
wireservice news, in the USENET file format. ClariNet lets you
read an "electronic newspaper" right on your own computer. You
can also get timely computer industry news, technology related
wirestories, syndicated columns and features, financial
information, stock quotes and more. ClariNet gives you scores
of professionally produced newsgroups for about the same price
as the analogous paper publications -- but without
advertising. Instead of dialing up to an online service with
a slow modem to read online news, you get it delivered to your
own machine, to read and search at your own convenience, with
your own favourite tools, on your own high speed terminal --
and there's no meter running while you read.
39.11 Bombay Stock Exchange Automates With Sun
India's Premier Stock Exchange to Invest $30 Million in High
Technology MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 18, 1992-- The Bombay
Stock Exchange has designed a comprehensive strategy to
automate its trading floor based on sophisticated computers
from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC). The move is
expected to prepare the exchange for more than 150,000 trades
per day which is the estimated trade volume for 1993 and
twice its present volume. The total integration, software and
hardware costs for the exchange's new computerized system will
be $30 million over the next 12 months.
39.12 SunPEX 1.0 Now Shipping
- Industry standard for 3-D graphics display
- ideal for MCAD, AEC, Scientific Visualization
- Displays graphics generated by any PEX program on the net,
even from other vendors machines
- Accelerates rendering of SunPHIGS 2.0 and other 2-D and 3-D
graphics over the network
- Complete SPARCstation GX, GXplus, GS, GT support
- Works with OpenWindows Version 3, providing 24-bit visuals
Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC) announces SunPEX 1.0,
a network-transparent 3-D extension to the X11/NeWS server. It
allows graphics applications to be distributed transparently
across the network taking full advantage of graphics
acceleration. As a powerful extension to the X11/NeWS server,
SunPEX is ideal for graphics-intensive customers in MCAD, AEC,
and scientific research. SunPEX is ideal for inhouse
developers using SunPHIGS, end-users that use applications that
are "PEX-capable", and customers that require distributed
accelerated 3-D graphics. An example might be a customer
running atmospheric modeling/analysis programs on a Sun 4/690
or Cray and displaying the results on an SS2GT.
39.13 Boeing Selects SunConnect's SunNet Manager For LAN/Internet Environment
Network Services Group Standardizes on SunNet Manager
Mountain View, Calif. --- March 24, 1992 --- SunConnect, a Sun
Microsystems, Inc. business today announced that the Boeing
Network Services Support Group has standardized on SunNet
Manager as the platform for its LAN/Internet network management
environment. Boeing will use SunNet Manager nationwide to
manage the Boeing Internet/LAN environment which currently
includes a wide range of networking products from multiple
vendors including routers, bridges, gateways and
concentrators.
"We needed a platform that could scale to our needs, as well as
integrate and manage a wide variety of networking products from
multiple vendors," said Dean Coons, Group Manager, Boeing
Computer Services Network Information Systems. "SunNet Manager
meets those needs and provides us with additional flexibility
through its open and widely supported platform."
"Customers need networking management solutions that scale well
from small to large networks and provide the flexibility to
integrate new applications and networking products," said Denis
Yaro, Director of Network Management Product Development,
SunConnect. "Boeing's choice of SunNet Manager is an excellent
example of the momentum and industry-wide acceptance this
platform has gained."
39.14 SMCC Lowers Price Of Multiprocessor Servers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 24, 1992-- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) has made significant price
reductions within the SPARCserver(TM) 600MP Series, its popular
family of multiprocessor servers introduced last September.
The price cuts make these servers the least expensive such
systems available today. SMCC has slashed the cost of all
configurations except the base configurations of the three
models within this product family, with price reductions up to
$7,000. In the case of the high-end SPARCserver 690MP system,
SMCC has also added two 1.3-gigabyte IPI disk drives at no
additional cost, increasing the system's functionality.
In addition, SMCC has cut add-on memory prices for these
servers by as much as 48 percent and had reduced the price of
all add-on, 1.3-gigabyte disk drives by $1,000. Also lowered
in price by $2,300 was a special configuration of the
SPARCserver 630MP computer aimed at system administrators. It
includes a 19-inch color monitor and graphics accelerator.
These price cuts reaffirm SMCC's commitment to provide value.
For example, the high-end SPARCserver 690MP system offers the
industry's best UNIX(R) database price/performance on the TPC-A
benchmark. Running the SYBASE(R) SQL Server(TM) 4.8 relational
database management system (RDBMS), this Sun(TM) server
delivers 95.41 transactions per second (tps), with a cost/tps
of just $8,854. This result is better than all TPC-A
price/performance results for all UNIX systems. The
SPARCserver 690MP is the first system ever to break the
$9,000/tpsA barrier.
39.15 Announcing Solaris 1.0.1 AnswerBook
This product has been shipping for a while. -johnj
- System Software AnswerBook updated to correspond to Solaris 1.0.1
- Includes OpenWindows Version 3 Full Developers Documentation Set
- Upgrades available for current AnswerBook customers
The System Software AnswerBook has a new name to reflect the
fact that SMCC is now shipping SunSoft's Solaris system
software environment. Solaris is Sun's new name for their
distributed computing system software environment. Solaris is
comprised of the following components: OPEN LOOK, DeskSet,
OpenWindows, SunOS and ONC. Currently Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation is shipping Solaris 1.0.1, which includes
OpenWindows Version 2 and SunOS 4.1.2 components.
The Solaris 1.0.1 media product includes an OpenWindows Version
3 CD. The Solaris 1.0.1 AnswerBook CD contains two independent
AnswerBooks - the first AnswerBook, Issue 1, Release 2,
contains SunOS 4.1.2 Full Documentation, OpenWindow Version 2
Full Developer's Set (including OWV2 End User Manuals), and the
Desktop SPARC Owner's Sets. The second AnswerBook, Issue 1,
Release 3, contains SunOS 4.1.2 Full Documentation, Openwindow
Version 3 Full Developer's Set (including OWV3 End User
Manuals), and the Desktop SPARC Owner's Sets.
39.16 SMCC Reduces Prices On High-End 3-D Graphics Systems
Desktop Memory, Monitor Prices Also Reduced
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 24, 1992-- Sun Microsystems
Computer Corporation (SMCC) has slashed prices on its high-end
3-D graphics workstations by nearly 30 percent, the company
reported today. The fully configured models of the
SPARCstation(TM)2GS and SPARCstation 2GT are now among the
least expensive 3-D solids workstations in their class.
"One of the reasons we are the workstation industry's
highest-volume supplier is because we offer better value," said
Larry Hambly, vice president of marketing at SMCC. "We also
believe that lower prices will help us in an important quest:
broadening the market for 3-D graphics. And aggressive prices
lead to higher volumes, strenthening our `open graphics
initiative' by attracting even more hardware and software
developers to offer products for our platform." SMCC also
reduced prices on 19-inch monitors, making its best-selling
family of desktop workstations even more affordable. In
addition, prices of add-on memory have been reduced. For
example, a 16-megabyte memory expansion option is nearly 70
percent less expensive than a similar product from HP.
39.17 Sun User Group Announces SUG CD 1992.1
This is a Sun Users Group announcement that was posted to USENET.
Please contact the SUG directly if you have questions. -johnj
From: peter@sug.org (Peter Salus)
Newsgroups: comp.newprod
Organization: The Sun User Group
SUG CD 1992.1 is X11R5 and GNU on a CDROM,
priced at $50 to SUG members, including a caddy!
SUG's emphasis has always been on supplying the greatest
possible service and value-added to our members. Last year,
the SUG 1991 disk contained plug-and-play X11R4, 20MB of
additional essential binaries, almost 200MB of Sun patches,
fully-indexed archives of Sun-related net postings, priced at
only $250.
Our aim this year has been to reduce the price for disks which
can be produced inexpensively, but to continue to supply as
much value-added as possible. To accomplish this, we will be
putting out a two disk set, the first containing what's ready
and needed now, the second available later in '92, containing
more SPARC binaries and other useful material not found on
previous disks.
The SUG 1992.1 disk, which was assembled by Robert A. Bruce,
contains a lot of essential source code, and we decided it
would be a great service to make it available right away to our
members (and this pricing makes this a good opportunity to
become a member!) for $50 per disk (including one of those
hard-to-find caddies!). If you are not a SUG member, you can
become one for an additional $40 if you live within the US or
$55 outside.
39.18 Sun's Hottest, Volume 2, Number 3
This is the text of a newsletter, "Sun's Hottest", that is being mailed
to Sun customers. It is an excellent summary of the products that have
been announced over the last few months. -johnj
C O N T E N T S
Headline: Delivering next-generation computing to your desktop
Networking News
Multilanguage terminal emulation
SNA over Token Ring
Enhanced toolkit for distributed applications based on
PC-NFS platform
Fiber optics for the desktop
DEC connectivity solutions expanded
Token Ring communications for SPARC systems
Direct IBM server communications from a SPARCserver
Success of SunNet Manager continues
NetView Interface
Improved NFS performance
Solaris 2.0: the inside story
For application users:
better performance, interoperable applications
For developers:
better tools for building applications faster
For system administrators:
simpler management, tighter security
Close-up on OpenWindows Version 3
Making the move to Solaris 2.0
39.19 Third Party Product Announcements 1
RasterFLEX - Sbus-based Raster Accelerators
Performance Monitor now available on SUN, etc.
[alt.security] New Version of COPS is out (1.04)
39.20 Third Party Product Announcements 2
IOC - SCSI based IBM 370 Connectivity
TCP/IP Ethernet Printer Interface
Documenter's Workbench Release 3.2
39.21 Third Party Product Announcements 3
Nth PortableGL: Silicon Graphics compatible GL 4.0 Softare
SBus Add-in Modules Now Support New Sun 600MP SPARCserver
EMPOWER Remote Terminal Emulator from PERFORMIX
EMPOWER/MONITOR
EMPOWER/X
EMPOWER/XMONITOR
EMPOWER/GV
39.22 ONC RPC Applications Toolkit 1.0
-- Enables developers to create client/server applications as
easily as standalone applications
-- Shields application developers from having to understand
the details of low-level network interfaces
-- Leads to successful distribution of applications over a
network using RPC technology
-- Incorporates transport independent RPC (TI-RPC), a Solaris 2.0
technology, into Solaris 1.0, enabling developers to take
advantage of Solaris 2.0 technology TODAY.
SunSoft announced ONC RPC Application Toolkit 1.0 at Uniform,
January, 1992. The Toolkit greatly simplifies the development
of next-generation distributed client server applications. This
product will begin shipping from SMCC in Q2 calendar year
1992.
Product Positioning:
-- Easy-to-use toolkit for developing TI-RPC based
client/server applications.
-- Designed specifically for C programmers;
all input is derived from standard C syntax.
-- Reduces time and effort needed to develop
distributed applications.
-- Includes TI-RPC fully supported on Solaris 1.0
systems, allowing applications to easily migrate
to Solaris 2.0.
39.23 HOT OFF THE PRESS
This is an edited version of an internal newsletter that I have
been given permission to post to this mailing list. Note that I
posted the previous edition (Feb) of this newsletter at the
beginning of this month. -johnj
Recent News
March, 1992
39.24 SunSoft, Tivoli To Develop Industry's First
OMG-Compliant System Management Foundation
SunSoft today announced that it will jointly develop the industry's
first OMG-compliant foundation for system management with Tivoli
Systems, the leading provider of object-oriented system management
applications for distributed computer systems. The press release is
attached for your reference.
The products of the joint development will be incorporated into a
future release of Solaris, as a component of SunSoft's Project DOE
(Distributed Objects Everywhere). SMCC will make these technologies
available to its customers as they become available from SunSoft.
39.25 SunDBE 1.2
New Database Performance Product Announcement
Now Sun customers can take even greater advantage of the
multiprocessing capabilities of the SPARCserver 6x0 family with
SunDBE 1.2! This latest release of Sun's industry-leading
database accelerator boosts throughput by 35 to 100% over
standard SunOS 4.1.2 and helps the SPARCserver 690 to
phenomenal TPC-A and TPC-B performance of 95.41 TPS-A and 134.9
TPS-B.
-- Enhances the performance of Informix, INGRES, Oracle, and Sybase
on SPARCservers running SunOS 4.1.2
-- Preserves Sun's database price/performance
Sun Database Excelerator 1.2 (SunDBE 1.2) extends Sun's
price/performance leadership in the UNIX database server
market. SunDBE 1.2 on SunOS 4.1.2 maintains database
performance gains of SunDBE 1.1 on 4.1.1, while providing new
levels of SPARC transaction performance through new features
for the SPARCserver 600MP family. Together, SunDBE 1.2, SunOS
4.1.2, and SPARCserver6x0MP systems provide new levels of
throughput and improved response time under large user loads.
39.26 SPARCserver 690MP TPC-A Benchmark Results
Database Benchmark Results: TPC-A and TPC-B
SPARCserver 690MP Delivers Outstanding Database Performance
and Industry-Leading Price/Performance
This message announces 3 new benchmark results:
+ TPC Benchmark A (tm) on SS690MP and SYBASE SQLServer 4.8.1
+ TPC Benchmark B (tm) on SS690MP and SYBASE SQLServer 4.8.1
+ TPC Benchmark B (tm) on SS2 and SYBASE SQLServer 4.8.1
Results of these benchmarks reinforce Sun's leadership position
in the database server market, and demonstrate for the first
time SPARCserver capabilities for high terminal connectivity.
This is the first time ever that Sun has published results for
the TPC Benchmark A (tm). The price/performance result for the
SPARCserver 690MP is the BEST EVER posted by *any* vendor on
the TPC-A benchmark.
Results of this benchmark clearly demonstrate the superior
price-performance and high levels ofdatabase performance
attainable on Sun's servers when supporting 100's of user
terminals in an OLTP environment.
The SPARCserver 690MP TPC-B results are the best results to
date by Sun. This is the first time Sun has done the TPC-B
Benchmark on a SPARCserver 690MP.
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