Sun Integrates With, Enhances Microsoft Customer Environments; New Server, Storage, Desktop Products Enable Sun and Microsoft Interoperability.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1998--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) ) revealed its most significant plans to date to provide interoperability and compatibility between Sun(TM) and Microsoft systems without sacrificing the industrial-strength reliability and scalability that are key attributes 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. . Today's announcements, made at the company's Enterprise Computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. Forum in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , include: -0-
-- A technology agreement with AT&T that allows both SPARC- and
Intel-based Solaris systems to provide native Windows NT
services, opening up a vast new market for Sun's fast-growth Sun
Enterprise(TM) servers
-- A new add-in card that enables users of Sun's newest Ultra(TM)
workstations to run Microsoft Windows and DOS applications at
native speed performance
-- Efforts to link its entire line of Sun StorEdge(TM) network
storage arrays and tape libraries directly into Microsoft Windows
NT environments
-0- "Our customers have been asking us for better Microsoft interoperability while at the same time expressing concern about the absence of reliability and scalability in Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. environments," said Masood Jabbar, president of Sun Computer Systems. "With these announcements, we deliver on both. Not only will Sun systems interoperate with Microsoft systems, but we've figured out a better way to deliver NT services in Windows environments. Our two-pronged approach creates a unique opportunity that could translate into incremental server, storage and desktop revenue for Sun." Sun Servers Deliver Native Windows NT Services on Solaris Operating Environment Codenamed "Project Cascade," this technology is a result of an agreement inked between Sun and AT&T and incorporates AT&T's Advanced Server for UNIX Systems. It allows Solaris servers to deliver the exact same network services that Windows NT servers offer in PC environments, such as authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , directory services and file/print. Sun achieves this by running native Windows NT services on top of the powerful Solaris operating environment, thereby enabling Sun to pursue a sizeable portion of the Windows NT server environment. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. International Data Corporation, 54 percent of Windows NT server licenses sold in 1997 supported file and print services (1). Sun is now poised to take advantage of this new market opportunity with its Sun Enterprise servers, armed with a distinct advantage: its expertise in building the crucial enterprise "backbone" or network infrastructure, where scalability and reliability are of utmost importance. Project Cascade technology will be available on the Solaris operating environment for both the 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 and Intel platforms. (See separate release entitled "Sun Brings Proven Reliability and Scalability to Windows NT World" for details.) Best of Both Worlds: Combining Workstation Performance & PC Interoperability Previously, many technical computing customers using Sun's newest Ultra workstations also had a PC on their desk, or used emulation software, to run PC office productivity applications. A new high-performance card, called the SunPCi(TM) co-processor card, plugs easily into Sun's Ultra workstations and lets users run Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. and DOS applications natively on their Sun(TM) workstations integrating Solaris and PC operating environments Almost all x86-based PCs use the Windows operating systems. Windows 3.1 is rarely used today, but many 16-bit Windows 3.1 applications, as well as DOS applications, still run under Windows 98, XP and other 32-bit versions of Windows. in a single desktop. This new technology complements Sun's existing suite of PC interoperability solutions, which satisfy a full range of customers' cost and performance needs -- everything from viewing applications to sharing applications to running Microsoft Windows applications. (See separate release entitled "Sun Customers Experience the Best of Both Worlds: Workstation Performance and PC Interoperability" for details.) Leveraging Sun's Storage Success into Windows NT Market Sun intends to leverage its success as the No. 1 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). (R) storage provider into the vast Windows NT market, bringing its noted competence in price/performance and reliability to Microsoft environments. Today, Sun announced that it is working toward linking its entire line of storage systems -- from the entry-level Sun StorEdge A1000 array and the fibre channel-based Sun StorEdge A5000 to the high-end Sun StorEdge A7000 Intelligent Storage Server(TM) system and Sun StorEdge tape libraries -- directly into Microsoft Windows NT environments by year end. This will enable customers to connect Sun storage devices to either Solaris or NT servers, providing maximum flexibility and investment protection since customers can purchase from Sun the same enterprise-class storage for their Solaris or NT servers. In addition, when used with "Project Cascade" technology, Sun StorEdge systems can support not only Solaris-based Windows NT network services, but Windows NT application servers as well. (See separate release entitled "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. Extends Microsoft Windows NT Compatibility Across Entire Line of Sun StorEdge Arrays" for details.) About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. (1) IDC, Server Operating Environments: 1998 Worldwide Markets and Trends -- 54 percent of NT server licenses sold in 1997 supported file and print, 25.2 supported applications, and 20.8 supported mixed use workloads. Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Enterprise, Sun StorEdge, Ultra, SunPCi, Java, HotJava, Intelligent Storage Server, Solaris and "The Network is the Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International See SPARC. , Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. or Sun's HotJava browser. Type http://sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt.
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