Free Daylight Saving Time Solaris(TM) Solution From TERiX Continues.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- TERiX continues to offer on its website a "free-of-charge" Day Light Saving Time (DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. ) public domain solution to the SUN Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. [TM] (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) Solaris[TM] user community running versions 2.5.1, 2.6 and 2.7 legacy operating systems. With the advent of 2007 DST dates beginning March 11, and ending this upcoming November 4, many Solaris[TM] users require a software patch in order for the operating system to correctly calculate the time change. While Sun[TM] provides a public patch for Solaris 8, 9 and 10, no free public patch was made available for legacy versions of Solaris[TM] other than the solution offered by TERiX. TERiX created the DST patch for its clients running versions of Solaris[TM] no longer supported by the manufacturer, then decided to release the free patch into public domain as a service to the Solaris[TM] user community. The patch continues to be a popular download from TERiX website, even after the initial March 11 DST date. "The entire Solaris[TM] community deserves a free DST patch and TERiX is delighted to provide it. TERiX has been in support of open systems and open source initiatives in the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). community for a decade and this offer is just another example of our commitment in support of the greater Sun[TM] user community," stated Bernd Appleby, Chief Executive Officer at TERiX when the free patch was initially offered. "Our actions clearly support our Better Service--Better Value commitment to our customers and the industry," Appleby added. IT Director Ian Waters states, "The TERiX DST patch was created using the same public domain resources and methodologies used by the manufacturer to write the DST patches for Solaris[TM] 8, 9 and 10. We were happy to assist the Solaris[TM] user community by packaging the publicly available time zone data and software as well as the necessary information to implement it." Larry Quinn, Director of Sales commented further, "Now that we approach November 4, there are potentially users who will need to reset their systems of the over 10,000 server systems that have downloaded the TERiX solution and they should feel comfortable in knowing that TERiX DST solution is still available at no charge on our website." TERiX provides a comprehensive range of custom and standardized hardware and software maintenance and service options in support of Sun[TM], IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) [TM], HP[TM] UNIX-based servers, Windows servers, SAN and NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular storage systems. TERiX supports and maintains over 900 customers in the United States and in 44 countries and its clients include Fortune 500 companies in industries as diverse as aerospace, telecom, banking, technology, public sector, manufacturing and finance. TERiX is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. whose web address is www.TERiX.com. |
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