Sun has outlined a growth plan under new CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz [16517] and has already made some changes to its corporate governance policies [16518] along with consolidating its RFID testing [16543].

A Sun Weblog visually demonstrates the increase in performance achieved with Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers [16530]. Ubuntu's next release will support SPARC [16499]. A new Sun Fellow has been named [16540] and Sun Labs recently celebrated 15 years [16542].

Read why the StorageTek acquisition is viewed as vital to Sun's profitability [16528]. Sun VP of SOA Mark Bauhaus talks about integrating SeeBeyond technology with Sun's open source position [16502].

This week's edition introduces a new AMD section that features articles on AMD Commercial Systems Channel Program Portal [16537]; how to win a Sun server or workstation [16538]; and Sun Discovery Cluster architecture [16536].

Interviews with Sun marketing VP of Data Management Group (DMG) James Whitemore [16434] and VP of DMG Eula Adams [16358] headline the Storage section.

FOSS covers OpenSPARC T1 Version 1.1's free download [16454]; OpenSolaris and NetBeans Codie Award wins [16453]; porting Solaris DTrace to FreeBSD [16497] and OpenOffice.org migration [16485].

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The one year anniversary of OpenSolaris is detailed in this week's edition with coverage on its accomplishments, community growth, future directions [16591], [16623], [16576] and open source philosophy [16597]. Sun's move to join the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation [16595] also is making News as are Solaris 10 OS benchmark results with Reuters RMDS 6.0 [16627] and Ubuntu's download sites since its availability on the UltraSPARC T1 processor [16596].

Comparison of the Solaris 10 OS and Linux 2.6 [16565] from a developer's perspective is covered in Software, which has information on working with Solaris Containers and Solaris Service Manager [16559]; building GLib with Sun Studio tools [16567]; and more.

Read about the Sun Ultra 25 Workstation [16585], end of life for 80 GB hard disk drive for select workstations [16586] and four GB DIMMS availability for Sun Ultra 40 Workstations [16469].

The Sun and Standards section covers the Open Document Format and StarOffice product implementation [16584].

NetBeans highlights four new tutorials from Tim Boudreau using Lookup, Nodes and Property Editor [16580] and four new plug-ins for the NetBeans IDE [16581].

This week's edition also contains Sun Features, Developer articles and Sun Promotions.

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In Sun News this week, a recent Gartner analysis reports Sun's recent changes are good moves toward profitability [16545]; Sun Secure Network Access Platform (SNAP) is to be showcased in London [16541]; and Sun storage solutions and technologies win over Hewitt Associates [16554] and TruePosition [16546].

Learn how Sun Studio 11 compilers can optimize AMD64 performance [16492] in the Software section that also covers process privileges in Solaris 10 OS [16491]; IBM WebSphere Application Server on Solaris 10 OS and Solaris Zones [16523]; and SunSpectrum eLibraries [16500].

Find out the latest on Sun Java Studio Creator tutorials [16472]; manual deployment of Sun Java Studio Creator web applications [16519]; and migrating web applications from Apache Tomcat 5.x to Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 [16526].

Servers covers the Sun Fire T1000 beating the IBM x3650 in a recent benchmark [16544] and CRN's review of this CoolThreads server [16560].

Client Systems hosts a webcast on virtual desktop computing advantages [16574].

Also read about a Java Card Protection Profile update [16524]; Java EE 5 SDK and SOA [16525] and more in the Java section. Plus, get information on Sun Managed Services [16521], [16522] in the Service section.

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The Solaris 10 06/06 release with Solaris ZFS enhancements [16661] tops Sun News this week followed by details of the Java SE 6 Beta 2 features like Java DB [16628], Sun's role in the new computational research center at Stanford [16629] and Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz making HPCwire's 2006 "People to Watch" [16630].

In Storage, find out about the StorageTek StreamLine SL500 Modular Library System being voted MVP [16631] and Sun's withdrawal from IBM's Aperi initiative and joining SNIA's SMI-S [16633].

The latest in the Sun Java System includes information on its Application Server, Platform Edition 9 [16608]; Studio Enterprise 8 IDE advantages over Eclipse [16650]; Studio Creator 2 developer service plans [16622]; and RFID software pricing model change [16609].

Sys Admin hosts articles covering the implications for software scaling of chip multiprocessor (CMP) design [16561]; monitoring the core utilization of the UltraSPARC T1 processor [16579]; the Service Management Facility in Solaris 10 OS [16625]; and more.

Also in this week's edition, read about newly available Sun hardware products, updates in Sun service and current Sun promotions.

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