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Archived Sun News Articles
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05 May 2008
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Redmonk Analyst Sees Third Quarter As Merely a Glitch for Sun [19917]
Relationship with Developer Community Essential
Less is more or better, at least, in the eyes of RedMonk analyst James Governor. The "less" he blogs about is the .5 percent decline in Sun's revenue reported for the company's fiscal third quarter, which ended March 30th. On the other hand, he notes, Microsoft suffered a 24 percent decline in revenue for the quarter.
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05 May 2008
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OpenSolaris Operating System's Official Release [19919]
Get Installation Suggestions, References and General Information
The first official release of the OpenSolaris operating system is here, and it's not just for developers anymore. Although still ideal for developers working on applications for the next generation of Web 2.0 businesses, Sun's open-source version of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) now appeals to startups and corporations with its two subscription support offerings from Sun Services: OpenSolaris Essentials Subscription Support and OpenSolaris Production Subscription Support.
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05 May 2008
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OpenSolaris and MySQL Support Now on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud [19920]
Get A Powerful Platform, Database Options on Cloud Computing
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will now offer the OpenSolaris Operating System to its customers as well as give users access to MySQL premium technical support. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use.
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05 May 2008
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Sun CEO Offers Perspective on Company's Fiscal Third Quarter [19921]
Offers Insight on Results, Outlook for the Future
Sun's "disappointing" fiscal third quarter results, which reported it lost $34 million, or 4 cents per share, in the three months ending March 30, spurred Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz to answer a few questions regarding the company's health and status.
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05 May 2008
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Just Who Was the 500,000th Sun Certified Professional [19926]
Sun Reaches Certification Milestone With a Little Help From India
Over the past couple of months, Sun had been promoting the fact that its was nearing a milestone - certifying a half a million professionals - and wanted to honor the Sun Certified Professional who helped the company reach that mark with gifts. Well, the milestone has been met and the individual awarded.
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05 May 2008
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System News For Sun Users Blog Recap [19948]
Recent Blog Entries of Interest to Sun Users
System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes: Developers Offered Free Hosting on OpenSocial Platform, New Releases Freely Available to Download, OpenSolaris dot Org and dot Com, Sun Third Party System Management Integrations, Does the Solaris OS Really Cost Less Than Linux and Neil Young to Help Open JavaOne Conference.
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28 Apr 2008
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Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Financial Results Miss Expectations [19735]
Challenging US Economy Impacts Sun's Reported Net Loss, Revenue Decline
Sun's fiscal third quarter of 2008 reported a net loss of $34 million on a GAAP basis translating into a $.04 per share drop as compared with net income of $67 million, or $0.07 per share during last year's third quarter. Sun did report that the net loss included charges related to the acquisition of MySQL and the company would have had earnings of breakeven per share without this buy.
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28 Apr 2008
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Uptime Institute Recognizes Sun in its 2008 Green Enterprise IT Awards [19811]
Separately Reviews Sun Modular Datacenter S20
The Uptime Institute has included Sun Microsystems among the honorees in its 2008 Green Enterprise IT Awards citing Sun's "strategy for improving the efficiency of its technical infrastructure portfolio," which resulted in the development of the Sun Microsystems Modular Datacenter S20 (also known as Project Blackbox), among other innovations.
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28 Apr 2008
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Solaris 9 Containers Software Now Available for Download [19816]
Simplfies Migration of Solaris 9 Apps to Latest Systems Running Solaris 10
As promised, Sun released the Solaris 9 Containers software at the end of April and its download is now available. This offering enables a simpler migration of Solaris 9 applications to the latest systems running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). This solution is intended for those customers who want to run their Solaris 9 environments on newer Chip Multi-threading (CMT) systems running Solaris 10 8/07 or later releases.
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28 Apr 2008
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Sun's Eric Bart Joins BOD for Storage Networking Industry Association [19849]
Not-for-Profit's Mission to Develop and Promote Standards, Technologies, Education
The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) newest Board of Directors member is Sun's own Eric Bart, currently senior director of storage management software at Sun. The SNIA Board of Directors oversees the not-for-profit's vision and mission, addressing issues such as strategic planning, membership development, marketing and public relations, technical output and operational planning.
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