Sun grows Unix workstation share

Sun has increased its lead in the niche market for Unix workstations. The company apparently now accounts for 69% of the world Unix workstation market and 72% of the US market.

Of course, this is not the most hotly contested market segment and the most obvious question is who else also plays in this market. According to the International Data Corporation, the major gains that Sun achieved in the past quarter came at the expense of HP`s Unix desktops. Software developers, engineering and design houses, and defence and government organisations typically use the brute-force 64-bit SunBlade systems from Sun running the Solaris operating system.

BEA says it is substantially reducing the costs of enterprise integration with a range of new adapters for BEA WebLogic Integration. The 30 new adapters will be available at the end of this month and will complement the 20-plus portlets available for WebLogic Portal.

The new adapters fall into four main categories: adapters for enterprise applications such as SAP R/3, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; industry-specific compliance adapters such as HIPAA, SWIFT and FIX; utility adapters for things such as RDBMS, SMTP and HTTP; and adapters for legacy environments such as mainframes and message queuing systems.

Want to develop Linux applications but forced to use Windows? Metrowerks` latest CodeWarrior Embedded Linux Edition runs on Windows but allows developers to develop Linux applications that run on embedded Linux operating systems across a range of multiple processor architectures. The company says compared with traditional command-line tools, the CodeWarrior IDE is designed to help shorten the learning curve, reduce development time and increase productivity. Metrowerks, a Motorola company, apparently worked closely with Lineo on this project and the end result complements the Lineo Embedix SDK.

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