Sun Expands Developer Early Access Program for 64-Bit Solaris; Targets Applications Requiring Performance, Precision, Large File Capacity Handling.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1998--Delivering on its 64-bit road map, 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. kicked-off the beta program for the next version of the Solaris(TM) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . As Sun's largest beta program to date, Sun developers can now develop 64-bit applications for Solaris that require the performance, precision and capacity for handling very large files such as data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , data mining, web server, high-resolution graphics, CAD, simulation and scientific calculation. The early access 64-bit software includes a development environment and extensive compiler, debugger, conversion and tool support to help developers expedite the delivery of applications running on Solaris for new and evolving markets. Developers will also be able to take advantage of the Solaris 64-bit web site www.sun.com/developers/membership/individual/beta.html and the Sun(TM) Developer Connection(TM) program that provide details on technical issues, questions and answers, pointers to development tools, ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. certification, and a posting site for communicating with Solaris engineers. "We are committed to facilitating the rapid development of 64-bit Solaris-based applications that will have the scalability and performance required by businesses extending their enterprises to the Internet," said John McFarlane John McFarlane is the chief executive of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ), one of Australia's leading banks. The Scottish-born businessman began his career in manufacturing with Ford of Europe in 1969, and subsequently had a long and distinguished , president of Sun's Solaris Software division. "As applications become more complex, Sun's 64-bit Solaris Beta Program allows developers to more easily build their applications." 64-bit Computing ---------------- As computer applications become increasingly complex and feature-rich, and users become more savvy, current 32-bit systems and applications will reach performance barriers. Sixty-four-bit computing expands the bandwidth to more than four billion times as large as those in 32-bit environments, allowing application developers to leverage the benefits of the increased capacity and headroom, and accommodate their customers' future needs. The Sun Solaris operating environment provides an evolutionary path to 64-bit computing that preserves customers' technology investments in existing 32-bit systems. Other features include: -0- -- 64-bit kernel with full 32-bit backward compatibility See backward compatible. (jargon) backward compatibility - Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. -- 64-bit virtual addressing -- 64-bit environment to develop and deploy 64-bit applications -- 64-bit application development tools Service and Support ------------------- Participating ISVs will receive full technical support, free of charge, for the length of the beta program. Solaris ------- Designed for IT professionals, line-of-business managers, Internet Server Providers (ISPs) and power users, Solaris can be accessed and used by any type of device connected to the network, including NCs, NetPCs, Microsoft Windows computers and NT servers. Unlike other operating environments, Solaris is tuned for network computing and exploits the full capability of both 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-based computers. It is extremely fast, highly reliable, scalable, secure, very easy to install and use, optimized for Java and supports more than 12,000 applications. Sun Microsystems, Inc. ---------------------- Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (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) ), to its position as a leading provider of 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://www.sun.com. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, The Network is the Computer and Sun Developer Connection are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing the SPARC trademark are based upon architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Cecilia Denny, 650/786-7970 cecilia.denny@sun.com or GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute Group for Sun Karen Miller, 415/974-7220 kmiller@gcigroup.com |
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