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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

	SOLARIS 2.0 MIGRATION KIT C0-PACKAGED WITH SUNOS 4.1.3

SunFLASH Vol 45 #5					      September 1992 
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Remebre that Solaris 1.1 consists of SunOS 4.1.3 + OpenWindows 3.0 +
ONC. -johnj
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The Solaris 2.0 Migration Kit has now been distributed to over 20,000
customers worldwide.  Distribution has been mostly to our contract
customer base and Operation Commitment customers.  Customers are
finding the migration kit very useful in planning their transition to
the Solaris 2.0 environment.

Effective 8/31/92 a Solaris 2.0 Migration Kit will be co-packaged with
all SunOS 4.1 3 media orders shipped from the US and ICON Product
Distribution Centers - PDC.  SunOS 4.1 3 media orders shipped from the
European PDC will start co-packaging the kit on 9/21/92.  Plans are to
continue this distribution until the FCS of Solaris 2.1 later this
year.

The kit will be shipped with all default, upgrade, 4.1.3 specific,
10-packs and localized 4.1.3 media orders.  The goal is to  provide the
4.1.3 customer base a set of tools to help make the transition to the
new environment.


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              SUN UNVEILS SOLARIS 2.0 MIGRATION KIT
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- January 22, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) today introduced the Solaris(R) 2.0 Migration Kit, a
free set of tools and documentation developed to assist SMCC customers
with their transition from the Solaris 1.0 to the Solaris 2.0
distributed computing solution. Solaris 2.0 is based on the
industry-standard UNIX(R) System V Release 4 operating system, and
includes the ONC(TM) networking products and services, the OpenWindows(TM)
environment and DeskSet(TM) productivity tools, which use the OPEN LOOK(R)
graphical interface. By early next year, all new SMCC SPARC(R) systems
will exclusively run Solaris 2.0.

The Solaris 2.0 Migration Kit contains the System V Migration Tool (the
Pipeline Tool), the SunOS 4.1.x-to-Solaris 2.0 Migration and
Compatibility Guide, a site-migration planning worksheet and extensive
documentation --all on a single compact disc (CD). In addition, there
are technical white papers and detailed "question and answer" documents
for system administrators and developers. SMCC today also released an
interactive, multimedia tutorial about Solaris 2.0 and the migration
effort, which is featured on the Migration Kit CD.

The Migration Kit utilizes Sun's AnswerBook(TM) technology, which allows
all of the online documentation to be easily accessed with
sophisticated search and retrieval functions. To locate information,
users can type in simple phrases, "click" on table of contents entries
or use hypertext links to reference related topics.

The Pipeline Tool

A key element of the kit is the Pipeline Tool for developers. One of
the first of its kind, this easy-to-use, mouse-based product scans
Solaris 1.0 application code for Solaris 2.0 standards compliance and
recommends solutions to any incompatibility it encounters. Application
code can be verified against industry standards, including SVID-3
(System V Interface Definition Issue 3) and SCD 2.0 (SPARC Compliance
Definition). The Pipeline Tool dramatically speeds the transition
effort required to convert customers' current applications to Solaris
2.0.

Other Migration Support

In addition to distributing the Solaris 2.0 Migration Kit, SMCC is
holding worldwide educational training seminars for developers and
system administrators. The SMCC support organization will also continue
to assist customers in their migration efforts. Concurrently, SunSoft,
the system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., is providing
the Solaris 2.0 Early Access Program to computer manufacturers and
third-party application vendors.

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src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au

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Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in
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within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or
publication by Sun Microsystems.

John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. (305) 776-7770.

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