Sun's Solaris 8 Early Access Showcases Next Generation of World's Leading UNIX.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- Anyone, Anywhere Can Get Aggressively Priced Preview of Only OS that Marries Datacenter and Dotcom Requirements 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. Inc. turned up the heat on the operating system wars with the announcement today of an Early Access Program that gives anyone, anywhere a preview of the Solaris(tm) 8 opocumentation, and other tools for only $19.99. Available for SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (tm) and Intel systems, the Solaris 8 softw availability and scalability in a trustworthy, ded. No Limits, New Technologies and Investment Protection With second-generation 64-bit technology and support for IPv6, the Solaris 8 operating system forever removes ttechnologies from the desktop to the Internet, including mission-critical quality Java(tm)2SE for building web-centric software applications; the Java Media Framework The Java Media Framework (JMF) is a Java Library that enables audio, video and other time-based media to be added to Java applications and applets. This optional package, which can capture, playback, stream, and transcode multiple media formats, extends the Java Platform, Standard fodeal for service providers); automated dynamic rall feature makes installing the software as easy as using a browser, and a Live Upgrade capability lets customers install the new environment while their current Solarimpatible with Solaris 8 software. Software devesion of the Solaris 8 operating system with comto ensure that applications could be run, tested and available when Solaris 8 ships." Solaris 8 Early Access can be ordered now at http://www.sun.com/solaris8/earlyl are available now for free at http://www.sun.aq: "SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) "), to its position as a leading provimore than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Solaris, The Network Is The Computer, Solaris Compatible PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA, www.parc.com) Founded in 1970, PARC is a Xerox subsidiary involved in high-tech research and development. Although Xerox's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, and manufacturing and marketing are in Rochester, New York, PARC is International, Inc. in the United States aes, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. |
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